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Dear Nathaniel, dear Sabine,

a) Please excuse the formality of written communication, but my memory is such that what I don't write down, I forget.

b) The kitchen door is unlocked.

c) On the kitchen table is a key to the kitchen door. I suggest you take it to Hillside Garden or to Home Depot to have as many duplicate copies made as you wish. Please do not label any house key with the address of this house. A labeled key which was lost, would be an open invitation to a prospective burglar.

d) In the past, except when I was working in the garage, in the driveway or in the yard, I have usually kept all three doors to the outside locked.  If it is important to you to keep one or all of them unlocked, day and/or night, I have no objection. Your trumpets are the only valuable items a burglar would be likely to steal. The most likely unannounced visitor whom you might encounter unexpectedly is not a burglar, but Nikola Chubrich, looking for me.

e) Because the Addition is built into a slope, and because the Building Code requires the foundation wall to project 10 inches above ground, it was necessary to build a moat about on the southern and eastern sides of the Addition tolower the surface level. In order to make the walkway immediately adjacent to the moat safe for visitors, especially in the dark, requires a railing which I never built. I'm too old now to do so myself, but if you wish to build such a railing, I will help you. Until such a railing has been installed, please ask visitors to enter or leave the house through the front door or through the kitchen door only. Please keep in mind that the house is protected with neither liability nor fire insurance.

f) The radiator in the kitchen is too small to raise the temperature to a comfortable level even if the oilburner were operating normally.  On a cold day, the kitchen can be warmed adequately by by setting the two back burners on the electric stove to high, and plugging in the fan on the counter to blow on them. Please take care that the dog does not get hurt. I am much concerned that if, if the front burners were turned on, the dog reared up and placed his paws on them, he would sustain very painful burns which might prove to be incurable. 

g) My schedule. I plan to go to bed at 11 p.m., but usually that happens one or two or two and a half hours later. I usually awaken between 9 a.m. and 12 noon. I "work" at my computer until 12 noon, at which time I go to the kitchen for breakfast. I then "work" on the second floor, writing, reading or putting things in order. At 6 p.m. I have my evening meal. I expect to be out of the kitchen by 7 p.m. if not sooner. I then go into the basement to clean and reorganize the kitchen, tasks which I have neglected for at least seven years. At 10 p.m. I go upstairs to the second floor.

h) This house has two kitchens, the one with which you are familiar, and a second one in the basement. You are welcome to use, and to store food in both of them. The basement kitchen had long been used as a dump for unused or unusable items. It had not been cleaned for many years. I am now trying to put it in order. The refrigerator-freezer already functions, it is turned on, and is available for your use. You are welcome, also to use the bin freezer next to the washing machine, and I can clear shelves for you to store non-perishable items at the foot of the basement stairs from the kitchen. 

i) I have installed a third access point for the local area network (wifi) Its ID is TP-LINK_AP_A232, its password is 24540575 It is located in the basement directly underneath the center of the first floor School Street room of the Addition, where you will probably get the strongest signal. If you wished, for an even stronger signal, I could move the access point to either of the two first floor Addition rooms or to the first floor living room.