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The Rhino is ready for anything Mother Nature throws at us in the way of snow.  We have a generator that can be on line in a few minutes.  While it does not have enough capacity to run everything in the house, we do have water, heat, power for the refrigerator, lights in most of the rooms.

 

We have televisions that are on the powered circuits.  The light over the kitchen table is not on a powered circuit so we leave that turned on.  When service is restored the light goes on, and we can flip the switches that are from the generator back to the power from the electric company.

 

The lawn tractor with the 44" snow blower on the front is parked facing the garage door, which is on one of the generator circuits.  The driveway and mailbox is cleared in minutes.  Snow is blown to the side, off the driveway.  When I get to the road, I direct the discharge forward which throws it across the street, leaving none of "our snow" in the road.

 

The machine will throw the snow nearly thirty feet, so there are no piles of snow on the edges of the driveway.

 

My past five trucks have had plows mounted on them, but the snow blower is superior to them for cleaning the driveway, not to mention that it can also plow walkways, something impossible with a plow.

 

Weird, but this Rhino doesn't mind the cold or the snow, nor do I get cabin fever.  The off season gives me the opportunity to get some major projects done around the house, while not interfering with my fishing during from late March into October.

 

So far, my "projects" have included replacing the carpet in one of the bedrooms with a hardwood floor, and installing a double wall oven in the kitchen.  That is something my wife has wanted for years.

 

When the warm weather comes,  my chores are mowing the lawn and tending the flower gardens with my wife.  Those can be done between fishing days, or when I return in the afternoon.

 

It has been an unusually snowy winter.  Most seasons, the snow/rain line hovers around the coast, but this year, it has remained far enough south, so that we have had mostly snow with little rain to moderate the depth of snowfalls.

 

However, thanks for thinking of me.

 

The missus wants to get a generator that turns on automatically when the outside power goes off.  She'll get no argument from me.

So far, my "projects" have included replacing the carpet in one of the bedrooms with a hardwood floor, and installing a double wall oven in the kitchen.  That is something my wife has wanted for years.

 

I hope that works better for you than it did for me. The wife wanted a double oven so I went all out, new cabinets, counter tops, all new appliances. Now I never get a decent meal because "we" don't want to mess up the kitchen.

I'd give anything for an old half rusted out stove with some chicken frying on top it.

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I hope that works better for you than it did for me. The wife wanted a double oven so I went all out, new cabinets, counter tops, all new appliances. Now I never get a decent meal because "we" don't want to mess up the kitchen.

I'd give anything for an old half rusted out stove with some chicken frying on top it.

 

No problem here.  The unit went in the alcove on the left side of the photo.  The plans called for built in ovens, but they were not in our budget when we built the house.  So, forty some years later they are in place.