The Normal Winter Stuff - Ice and Hot Air

Today begins my week of Jury Duty. We'll see how it goes. The first hurdle is dropping by the shop and chopping the ice from the back door walk so that Chickie and DH can actually get into the place. (We have a heated deflector installed on the wall above our door that keeps melt-water from sheeting directly over the door (a very bad thing indeed), but it does build up on both sides as a result, and sometimes that can get thick enough to impede opening the door properly. That's a problem because we do have to turn off the burglar alarm and if we can't get into the door, it's impossible to achieve that. 

We often get ice built up on our short walkway from 
the parking lot to our store's back door. Sometimes 
it builds up enough to keep the door from opening 
properly, so we all carry ice choppers in our cars to take 
care of it when we arrive at the shop. My ice 
chopper is heavy-duty so I'll drop by the shop 
quickly on my way to the courthouse and chop up 
whatever came down yesterday. 

So, I'll go chop ice and sprinkle salt liberally, then continue on my way to the courthouse. I'm still quite undecided about where I'm going to park, just know it will be a few blocks away from the courthouse itself. I need to be there two hours from now, so this will be a rather short post because I can't waste a lot of time before starting my "epic journey". I hope I've dressed well - not too warm and not too cool. I have no idea what the heat level will be, so I'm wearing a turtleneck, leggings, and a sweatshirt dress. I'll have to see. I'm also carrying a small handbag with me - it has my dental things - necessary if I eat anything, although they probably won't have anything other than water that I can eat/drink anyway. Also my phone and portable charger. I'll have the phone on "Do Not Disturb", of course. 

Our furnace is in the basement, and it has three pipes 
coming from it, one for each of the three heating 
zones we have in the house - basement, main floor and 
upper floor. The upper and basement zones are 
heating fine, but the main level isn't. We haven't had 
anyone out to take a look at the system in more 
than 20 years, so it's probably not a bad idea to get 
them out to take a look and bleed out the air if needed. 

DH and I have determined that I will need to contact a local furnace firm and have them come to the house to look at our boiler. We have a zone boiler - three zones in the house. The top and bottom zones are heating well, but the middle zone - kitchen, living room, dining room and guest bathroom - are at about 58 degrees. That's too cold. There might be air built up in the pipes that will need to be bled out, but it might also be dirt in the boiler around the flame area. We think a professional might be the better option at this point. So ... one more thing on my list of things to do today. 

I'm out of here. Have a fabulous Monday and hope that if I do get chosen for a jury, that it's at least something interesting and quick. LOL Slava Ukraini.