We take a week to 10 days to clean the house out in the spring and will start working on this in about 2 weeks. We run HEPA filters on every floor which helps with dust and pollen. We will open the windows for fresh air but it's still heating season in my area with temperatures in the 20s at night.

I travel to Boston once a week from Southern NH and I am very careful for when I make the trip because it can take 50 minutes or 2 hours. I would not want to do it during the normal business day 5 days of the week.

I find it a lot easier to take the highway down to Exit 7W to get to Whole Foods or Exit 8 to get to the other Market Basket. There are a lot of grocery shopping options in the area.

Slate is brand new so I don't think that many have a lot of experience with it. The location is excellent for what you want to do though. I live a few miles from those apartments and the you have easy access to Exit 10 and can run down to Boston or up to Portsmouth or Vermont. I go down to Boston once a week and just drive around the heavy traffic hours. Portsmouth is an easy shot on 101 to 93. You can also go to Hampton Beach if you want or the beaches in southern Maine.

NH is usually in the top 3 in terms of safest states in the country. One thing that I've noticed for many years is that there has often been a police car at the bottom of the hill where Slate is now looking for speeders driving from the Merrimack Premium Outlets. We do go to DCU and Qdoba regularly so we know the area well. You will also have access to a ton of retail in Nashua.

We haven't had neighbor issues in about 15 years. If we have a neighbor issue, we just go to the management company portal and file a complaint. The management company then sends a notice to the owner to cease and desist and cite the rule that they are violating. If it remains a problem, they are subject to escalating fines. This has solved dog, noise and all kinds of complaints.

Do you remember when they used some kind of paint to do the lane boundaries and the pain degraded the road so that there were holes in the road on 128 and the whole thing had to be repaved?

I think that some of the MA highways are repaved every year and maybe they just use cheaper materials because they know the road is going to get repaved anyways.

I think that Route 3 from Bedford to the border is in generally very good shape but 128 always has problem areas.

I note this difference driving between MA and NH (I drive down to Boston about once a week). And it's been this way for at least 30 years. MA has much higher density and I think that it has much more truck traffic.

I hope you did a screen capture of the message or received an email notification of the same. I've only once received a jury summons and it was in MA back in the 1980s. We had already moved to NH and I went back a month later to collect any mail that they had for me. There was a jury summons and I just sent them a note indicating that I no longer resided in the state. Back then everything was done by mail or phone or in-person as the public internet didn't exist back then. I've never been summoned after that and I'm in my 60s. Our son has been for Grand Jury service.

My local dealer charges $495 for documentation fee. This is at Toyota of Nashua. Prime Subaru of Nashua is also $495. So $693 does seem high.

Spin classes with Keiser m3i bikes are dark at the Merrimack YMCA. They are held in a former squash court. A membership at the Nashua-Merrimack YMCA gives you access to the Nashua, Merrimack and Westwood facilities, and guest privileges at other YMCAs nationwide.

I don't know as I've never used them but that may make sense.

And it would be reported by the major news networks.

I spent 30 minutes clearing off 2 cars this morning. The cars were in the sun which helped tremendously. Then I cleared the ice off the driveway in 15 minutes with an ice chipper. I've only seen a handful of people pulled over for not clearing their car in the past 15 years or so so it's generally not enforced. Similar to mobile-phone laws.

A lot of clever solutions here.

1-800-cars-for-kids jingle comes to mind.

I'm not a fan of a general gathering of people as there's some apprehension on meeting people. A venue for a common interest means that you already have something to talk about and this can suppress any apprehension in mingling.

I understand that. I took a semester in meteorology in undergrad and it definitely is dealing with complex systems. I still have the textbook but it's most certainly out of date. It was a bit of an eye-opener back then (in the 1970s) as to the number of things that influence the weather.

But still, prepare for the worst and hope for the best. This has worked for me for 4 decades.

I think that you just needed a teacher to sponsor your club if you wanted to form one and if there was demonstrated interest. I think that teachers got paid to help manage a club back then. I suspect that this varies widely by school district. It's probably harder in a small school than a very large one.

Our local YMCA was packed last night with kids and adults. Sports is one way to meet other kids. The other things that you are interested in are probably less common in terms of people getting together to do them. Those are good areas to start one or a few YouTube channels for.

When I was a teen, I was in the math and chess clubs and I also had part-time jobs so some fairly natural ways to meet people. The math and chess stuff was just at school unless we were traveling for competitions.

Market Basket hires a lot of teens and they seem fairly happy there to me and I often see them chatting together.

I spent 30 minutes clearing off the cars this morning. Fortunately the sun was out which helped quite a bit. I'm going to move the cars after I have a cup of coffee and then clear the ice on the driveway. Temperatures are getting a lot colder tonight and tomorrow and avoiding the deep ice freeze is a good idea.

I've been doing this since the 1970s and this year has actually been a lot easier than usual.

No. We moved here in the 1980s. Lived in Boston since 1964 before that.

It's never a mistake to use a weather program (it's not an app). You just apply your heuristics on how you use it and the relative reliability in the past.

Plan for the worst and hope for the best.

Our roof leaks from ice dams. It has since the 1980s.

Prepare for the worst and hope for the best.

We got about 5 and they said 8. But I'd rather be prepared.

Underground power reduces the odds of outages locally but you're still dependent on the power company to your neighborhood. We also live on a main road and the power company has done a very good job in trimming branches, shoring up and even replacing poles since 2011.

Merrimack.

Tonight 1.65

Sunday 0.5

Monday 0.5

Tuesday 14

Wednesday 2.6

Thursday 4.85

Friday 0.8

Saturday 5.95

Source is the Apple Weather App on macOS Ventura.