The car is packed with yet another load for Goodwill, this time stuff from the boxroom. First thing tomorrow, off it goes.

Half the back wall of the basement is now stripped of drywall, and I have established that the leak is not coming from a crack in the foundation! Instead, it’s pouring in under the sill of one if the basement windows, then trickling along the framing timbers to pool in the furnace room. The exploratory surgery took several hours and cost $100 bucks cash to a jobbing carpenter — lovely guy.

So now I have to get the carpenter who installed that window to rectify the problem and figure out a way to shield that window from snow build-up. And replace the drywall and the sodden insulation the other guy took out.

After all this Sturm und Drang, I’m having an asthma attack. I toked up on Symbicort and decided to take it easy tomorrow.