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Was pretty sure one of our cats was a goner. Was taking a nap and heard a noise outside window. Sounded almost like a dove bird but louder and with a growl. Looked outside the window and there was a fox rolling in the grass. I had let all three cats out earlier, but brought them all in except one. Was certain the fox was eating the cat. I scared it off and went out to call the cat in. She sauntered around the corner like she wasn't scared, but she was less then 20' away from where the fox was. Almost seems like the fox was playing,.knowing cat was there. Oh well, got cat back inside. We've seen this fox on occasion, but this is the closest to the house we've seen it. Wife not impressed

60f at Pinkham but got a little toasty up tuckermans trail. About 52f at top. By the time I got back down, 82f

Good hike up to Washington this morning. What a mob scene when I got down. Never seen so many cars at Pinkham.

cool story. we snowmobile in that area. Never knew a ski area existed.

~75" avg. Three winter's ago 132"

62.8F. Chilly for mid Jul stds

Upper 30s northern ME

We going back to hot and dry soon?

Good news. Oxford vaccine and Pfizer vax are other top candidates

2.13". Was a good day. Lots of mulch washouts

Grass still brown here, but some green coming back. Maybe there is hope after all

2.07"

1.61". Precip is just pinwheeling around

Excellent storm in PWM. Lots of c-g. hvy rn, wind

that lightening was close just now

holy shite. Very dark here in PWM with thunder

I never recall 'nadoes being somewhat common in NE. Seems like in last 10yrs we've had more than I recall. ME averages 2 and we had one this past wknd.

I forget. Was my Dads. Single action. Has emblem with three presidents on the stock. Early 70's rifle.

We do face S/SW. Great in the Winter. Thankfully in Summer the sun goes over the roof, so we get no sun through front of windows, but we also have a "hot roof", so temps get very warm up near ceiling fan. Late in day, we get couple hrs of sun through the wall the unit is on which is why we put some curtains up yesterday. I read online that if ceiling is >8ft, you should add ~30% more BTU. Our guy clearly didn't take that into acct.

Good advice. We hung some temp curtains yesterday. We do have a large ceiling fan, not pictured. Will turn on. I assume we want to have it spin such that air is pushing down or will that only push more hotter heat down, making AC more difficult to cool?

Here's a pic of the install. cat seems comfortable

Spoke to the install guy and told him we can't get room temp less than 5F below outside air temp. This seems unacceptable, but he says it's not and his AC evap froze up yesterday at his house do to the high dews/temp. It was only 80F. Can't imagine our unit doing squat when it's 90F+/70. I think the issue is the high cathedral ceiling/loft area that obviously traps a lot of heat. The indoor unit is mounted ~9ft. Using the IR gun, the top of the unit was 77F while room temp at couch level was 75F. I had remote setting on 64F. There's no way our room will cool to that level, so the compressor will be constantly running right? The bedroom unit was set for 68F on remote and I woke up to the same temp on our room thermostat, so it seems clear to me the new unit is likely undersized and with such a large cubic vol of hot air, the new pump will not be able to do much for temp. Humidity OTOH was lowered to 60%, so that was good and achieves a more comfortable level, but for $4K, I'm pretty disappointed.

Model FTXS12LVJU. Are you saying run it in auto mode? I've been running it on cool mode, medium fan speed. Remote temp setting is at 64, low as it will go.

Still was a shitty way to run a winter