We have been rethinking our indoor air filtration for a month or more.  The first thing that set us to thinking about it was the air filtration situation in our HVAC air handler.  The situation was this: Jewel Plumbing & HVAC set up our HVAC and filter system, per our requirements.  They built a 25"x 25" by 1" filter jig ahead of the squirrel cage fan compartment in the HVAC air handler.  Our furnace is a LP gas fired forced air system with air conditioning.  We had been sourcing our air filters for the first year from Jewel our installers, because it turns out that 25" x 25" air filters have not been all that common.  For the first year we never saw any air filters of that size in the local box stores.  Just recently we have seen a few start to appear.  The filters we sourced from Jewel, were of the cardboard frame variety with very wispy synthetic fibers only 1" thick.  They are the most rudimentary of HVAC air filters.   ...

2025 is the year of our 30th Wedding anniversary and also the year that the building of our last house is complete.  What I mean by last house is that we WILL NEVER BUILD another one!  Please save this statement and read it back to us should we ever start to consider building another one ourselves again!  Given that we now have more free time again and it is a big celebration year, it is a perfect time for us to get some bucket list items in the books; enter snowmobile tour of Yellowstone National Park for starters 😃 In order to avoid nighttime driving into the frozen north country we made plans with our great friends Scott & Cindi to drive up to West Yellowstone, Montana and stay overnight there.  In this way we could drive during the daytime and have a short drive over to the snowmobile outfitter.  That is Scott and Cindi leading the way in the picture below. West Yellowstone, MT is a small town.  Our ride from hotel to outfitter was less than 0.5 mi...