Friday, January 16, 2009

Frozen Friday

Do YOU know what it's like to live with no heat when it's 6 degrees outside???




WE DO.

All week we have been waking up to temperatures below our thermostat setting, but today the temperature was 10 degrees below. Help was called and according to Tom from a local repairer of such things, we need a new furnace. Our current furnace is the original from when our home was built. Furnaces are supposed to last 15 years. Did I mention our house was built in 1983? So although we can't complain about a terrible furnace, we can complain about the cost of a new one. Has anyone else gotten a new one lately?? It's crazy!!

The furnace will be installed tomorrow so tonight we are without heat on the coldest night of the winter so far. The company we are using left us two space heaters so we are all staying in one room whenever possible and we'll all sleep together tonight. We are so cold!

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

That's SO sad! Audrey looks so small and cold when she is asleep. Ellie probably thinks this is a big party!

Anonymous said...

I think I would have gone and stayed at a local motel.

Four peas in a pod said...

Hotel money would be better spent towards the new 5K heater unit!!!

:-0

-Lori

Four peas in a pod said...

In addition to the money, it's surprising how much warmth the two space heaters create. Not to mention the packing up of four people for one night. Besides, Ellie thinks it's like a slumber party to sleep on the floor in our room!

J

3dingsandadog said...

BRRRR...hope you all are warm soon

Anonymous said...

being cold like that reminds me of the cold winters back in NY when we lived in a mobile home...the walls were so cold...!!! Ice on the inside frame of the windows...plastic on the inside windows... but we all surveyed ...so hang in there....summer will be here ...ya, I know, not soon enough ....keep warm!!!