Carbon Monoxide!?

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Weird. The smoke alarm went off, not incredibly odd when I am using the fireplace, but it wasn't the smoke detector. It was the CO alarm. I was totally surprised. It had never gone off as long as I have had one, over many many years. Yep, after resetting it a few times. It was getting a reading over 200 ppm CO. When I took it downstairs I got a reading near 300 ppm. I started getting light headed at this point. After thinking maybe the furnace heat exchanger failed and puzzling around a bit I figured out what happened. As part of the huge winter storm that recently covered almost half of the US, we lost our electricity. So, being well prepared, I rolled out the generator and started doing what I normally do. The generator (although it was completely outside) was creating CO to get in the house. Using the fireplace draft (and possibly other leaks) the whole house created a vacuum around the seal of the basement garage door. After the CO got into the house the forced air heat...
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The new year is started off pretty well. I have to admit that parking my sports car in my hanger after I pull out the plane to go flying was a great experience.

We took this photo of the Ugly products at one of the Asian markets close by in Duluth. I guess they are trying to say "seconds".

I was in Tampa for a day or so, this week I will be in Detroit for the day.

I finally got around to plotting the flight log from one of our flights in Hawaii. It was 174NM. Very memorable.

I have been talking with some folks going on an Expedition to an Antarctica Island called Heard island. Very interesting.

We are looking forward to and planning our party on March 8th in Duluth. It will be good to see people.


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