Well, after several weeks of tinkering with it ourselves, I finally got the DH on board with calling a certified repairman to work on the furnace.
Liquid Propane is not a gas to be trifled with, if you didn't know. Being heavier than air, a gas leak can fill a basement with fumes. From that point, the ignition of the furnace or a water heater, or any number of other things can cause a catastrophic explosion. The only upside to such an explosion is that it usually "blows itself out", whatever that means in "Volunteer Fire-ese".
Now, How?, you might be asking, does this apply Beige Recyclables? Well, in researching the furnace online while we were trouble shooting to find out what its problem was, I discovered that the poor little furnace is actually a Mobile Home furnace. Oddly enough, made by Coleman, the camping people. And, yet, somehow it made it's way into the quasi-basement, glorified crawl space of a 1911 Four Square Craftsman farmhouse with about 2500 sf of living space. Hmmm, I'm thinking my Engineering friends would go pale if asked to do the calculations on that heating load. So, it's probably a miracle that it has kept us this warm for this long.
And, I am so glad that the repair-guy could find a part to repair it at all, and really thankful that the whole saga added up to a little under $1000 when all was added up. It could have been so much more.
So, we'll be taking as much advantage of those Insulation Tax Credits as possible.
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.........
Friday, December 30, 2011
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Christmas already!
Wow, just finished another awesome Christmas with the family!
One more thing to be grateful for this year. Family.
Love them all, every one of them.
The tall and the small, the young and the old, the loud and the quiet.
Christmas Eve service with everyone holding a candle with a little paper collar. Staying up too late talking and rocking babies that can't get to sleep 'cause they're not home in their own bed. Christmas Sunday service was an added blessing this year. Can't remember very often that a Christmas has been on Sunday. Lots of Pew-time made the matriarch of the clan extra proud and happy. She deserves it, she's earned it.
Movies, and singing and games. The Kids: the kids that were little ones just a blink of an eye ago and now sharing their newborns with us. So many kids in this family that the generations overlap with Cousins having toddlers that are older that the youngest of the Cousins. How can anyone ever grow up with out Cousins?
The weather was sooooo mild here this year. No Snow at all. Sure, it was muddy out in the field, but the kids could run all over the farm.
Turkey & Stuffing and Riced Potatoes, home canned green beans, warm bread, and Jello Salad and Chex Mix, Pies (6 kinds), holey moley CARB OVERLOAD.
Sorry we've lost the family members that had such problems with Diabetes. Mindfull that the Diabetic Train is shining it's light at the end of my genetic tunnel.
One more thing to be grateful for this year. Family.
Love them all, every one of them.
The tall and the small, the young and the old, the loud and the quiet.
Christmas Eve service with everyone holding a candle with a little paper collar. Staying up too late talking and rocking babies that can't get to sleep 'cause they're not home in their own bed. Christmas Sunday service was an added blessing this year. Can't remember very often that a Christmas has been on Sunday. Lots of Pew-time made the matriarch of the clan extra proud and happy. She deserves it, she's earned it.
Movies, and singing and games. The Kids: the kids that were little ones just a blink of an eye ago and now sharing their newborns with us. So many kids in this family that the generations overlap with Cousins having toddlers that are older that the youngest of the Cousins. How can anyone ever grow up with out Cousins?
The weather was sooooo mild here this year. No Snow at all. Sure, it was muddy out in the field, but the kids could run all over the farm.
Turkey & Stuffing and Riced Potatoes, home canned green beans, warm bread, and Jello Salad and Chex Mix, Pies (6 kinds), holey moley CARB OVERLOAD.
Sorry we've lost the family members that had such problems with Diabetes. Mindfull that the Diabetic Train is shining it's light at the end of my genetic tunnel.
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