Originally Posted by
rumrunn6
you've shared this view before. I love it. great pic this time capturing the falling snow
may I ask how you keep tabs on a vacant house in the cold? if you'd rather PM me that's fine. I ask because since our Mother moved out of the family house a year ago in Yonkers I've been visiting every 2 weeks. actually the frequent visits started 3 yrs ago when our Dad passed. but at least Mom was in the house, keeping an eye on everything. in this cold it doesn't seem like enough. there's no internet & so we have no remote monitoring. the house is fine, so long as nothing goes wrong ...
We have wonderful neighbors who help us. We pay one of them, and we hire other folks occasionally. The others do it out of neighborliness. We leave the heat on at low thermostat settings. The house is extremely well insulated.
We do have internet access though no fancy monitoring devices. I keep a small Linux server there, and if I can log into it remotely, I know the power is on. If I can't ping it, then something is probably wrong. The power goes out a lot there, between 4 and 8 times a year. When it comes back on, I log into the server and check the time when it started. Maybe one day I'll install fancier monitoring devices.