Just before I went upstairs to go to bed last night, I noticed that the furnace wasn't working, and when I went to restart it, I realized that it was a useless action- I remembered how last winter the furnace had done the same thing and how I'd had to have a furnace person come in and diddle with this and that to get it up and running again.
Well, I have some wood left for the woodstove, I thought, so I stuffed the already running woodstove with as much leftover wood as I felt was safe, and I went to bed and tossed and turned for a while, worried.
This morning I awoke with a cold nose and I remembered that the furnace is out, so I threw on three layers of clothes, my winter boots and hat, and I trundled downstairs to get the woodstove going again and to try my hand at getting the furnace to work.
No luck. I called my West End friend and asked his advice (always a good thing to do, as he is nearly always Mr. Information) and then I went back to my immediate task of getting the woodstove cranking.
Well, it's been about 3 hours, and I have managed to get a facecord of wood (in transit as I write) but I have given up on getting the furnace fixed today.
The furnace person is apparently out of town until tomorrow, so all I can do is run the woodstove. Oh well!
At least it's been sunny outside today, and the kids are back in school after yesterday's snow day (14 inches of snow), and I am looking forward to breakfast time when I can enjoy looking at the dozens of different birds that come to my outdoor birdfeeder.
Still, I wish I could get warm! Cheez......
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