...it has been since I moved here.

We charted a -17f overnight. I suspect the summer won't be bad with respect to fleas and ticks, as this sort of thing does tend to kill off the larvae underground.

Monday night the fancy-arse heating and cooling system in the house quit. A "communications error" that required the warranting company to come out and get it going again. Too clever for its own good with imprinted algorithms to "increase efficiency" and make you think you are in charge of something because there is an app for your phone. Unfortunately, that is all you can buy now; simplicity is so passé.

People need to sort what needs to be dead simple and reliable versus what can afford to lose a bit of reliability in favour of technological gee-whiz and play-value. Heat on a sub-zero night is not in the latter category.