Mellotron M400 #541 had spent the last few months in a very cool, dry basement while outside the Vermont winter was in high gear.  We saw a great example of that on Saturday evening when the temperatures bottomed out at about 8 below zero Fahrenheit.  It really wasn't the thing for Lee, who's not used to this.  You see, Lee now lives in Birmingham, Alabama, which is far south of Vermont and warm/hot and muggy a lot of the year.  Prior to that Lee lived in Hawaii, which bears no resemblance to Vermont at all (although there is an extinct volcano in New Hampshire).