Turning the Temperature Corner

The last leaf

It's getting colder in Maine. It does this every year, I'm told. This is the latest that we've stayed in the north since we started our motorhome adventure 4 years ago. It's good to know that we can do it, but it does have a few complications.

We had the motorhome out in August, going up to Acadia for a long weekend. Most everything in it is ready to go. We didn't drain the water, in fact, I believe we have a full tank. Since the temperatures are now routinely below freezing at night, we're keeping the heat on to keep the pipes from freezing. That's burning LP, and since we haven't found anybody to deliver LP at our house, we'll have to take the motorhome up to Waldoboro to get the LP tank filled.


Maine fuel

We've been doing a lot more work on our house over the last few weeks. We stripped the remaining wallpaper in our bedroom, patched and painted the walls and the ceiling. We got the interior knotty pine put up on the new porch, and trimmed out the windows. We bought some bookcases in Massachusetts, and used one as a TV cabinet, one on the porch, and one in the hallway. The hallway downstairs has been scraped, patched, and painted. The stairwell and upstairs hall has been patched and painted.

We tried to do the ceiling over th stairs, but that was a disaster, the new paint peeled off all the remaining paint after it was scraped, patched and painted. We are having the sheet rock folks in to quote doing that job before we leave.

A fallen leaf

We've been pleased with the warmth that stays in the porch when the sun shines. We expected it to be a sunroom, and it is insulated throughout. But we've used it for several days without heat in November, which is better than I expected. The again, I understand we've been having some unseasonably warm temps over the past few weeks.

But today when we woke up, the chill of winter was around, with the overnight low around freezing. Today will be sunny, but not above 45 we're promised. We're slipping down that slippery slope of winter... you know, the one that some people ski on!