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Hello snow

Siggy and I came up to sort out a few things. We took a remote selfie with the outdoor camera.

 Much of the morning was spent waking up the snowmobile fleet. We wanted to get them off the trailers before the trailers were difficult to move.

Jon designed a little 3D printed roof to keep ice from blocking up the gate keybox, and we installed that today.

Here's a glamour shot from our white Christmas of the roof doing its job admirably:


 

The great room circuit didn't entirely work, which turned out to be because, back at rough-in, the electricians (😬) had missed a cable hop between two outlets sharing a stud bay. Siggy and I used a magnet to fish a paperclip and a string between the boxes and fill in the missing cable. With a little more fine-tuning, the great room receptacle branch is in good shape! (Notice the branch tester tucked in the corner in the right photo.)

Jon also fit and installed a fir cable raceway to cover the cable running to the balcony outlet box. It's not terribly ugly even pointing the camera right at it, and in the actual cabin it's placed where it's mostly hiding behind that beam anyway.


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