Yeah so in the middle of the night Friday our furnace stopped working! Burrrr! We are laying there in bed and it's about 4 in the morning. We hear Braxton wake up and he has to go potty. So Jeff gets up and takes him and meanwhile I get up and go to turn on the heat because I was just chilled. I turn the heat up to 70 and crawl back into bed. Braxton crawls into our bed because he was cold too. I'm laying there and the heat isn't coming on. Finally I whisper, over Braxton, to Jeff that the heat isn't coming on. We waited a few more minutes and then get up to investigate. It's true, no heat! So we put Adelle into our bed with Braxton with a warm rice bag in between them and Jeff goes out to the garage to see what's up. I am in charge of keeping rice bags warm for hands for everytime he comes in to defrost.Can't figure out whats wrong, look on-line, call Barron heating (who wanted $135 an hour to come take a look. Jeff even climbed onto the roof to see if something was stuck in the airway thing. Mind you it's like 5 in the morning by now.
So Jeff makes a fire and I turn on the oven and start washing dishes in hot water to stay warm. Then the kids wake up and we start to panic because they are cold and not wanting to stay in bed where it's warm. So we bundle them up and set them on the chair directly in front of the fire. Then we call my dad who tells us to come on over and have breakfast and then he will come back with Jeff and look at the furnace.
Yippie! We go eat breakfast at a warm house and drink hot apple cider. Then Jeff and dad come back here and within about 3 minutes we have a restored furnace! Thanks Dad! His years of wisdom pointed out to Jeff that the fan wasn't moving which meant that the air wasn't flowing. With a little twist of the screwdriver the fan was spinning again and the house was warm! Brilliance!
3 comments:
Glad your house is warm again. And I know how you feel, from your last post. Everyone think matt looks so young too. We went out to dinner one time and the kids were all getting fun straws with their drinks and she asks matt if he wants one too. My parents just started laughing, and said he's the dad of all these kids. It was pretty funny! Have a merry christmas you guys:o)
I'm glad you got your furnace working again. That happened to us several years when we lived in our 100 year old house, thank goodness we didn't have kids yet, because it would quit working when it was the coldest day!
Happy birthday Jeff, I have to say both of you look young!
Thank goodness for handy men! Dads, husbands, and soon our own sons - after they stop dismanteling things first, of course. THEN they'll learn to put things back together! Have a very merry and WARM Christmas!
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