I was Praying for Cool Weather During the Summertime Heat

When summer was sizzling hot and the temperatures were in the nineties, I remember praying for the cold and snow. I had enough of summer and I was ready for wintertime. The air conditioning unit could not keep up with the heat and humidity, and it was irritating in our house. Cold and snow sounded like a welcome reprieve. It is the middle of September, and it has been as cold as mid-January for most of the month. Both of us had almost a foot and a half of snow on the ground, added to the foot of snow we had two mornings earlier. I was looking outside, thinking about how beautiful the wintertime wonderland was, and then I remembered it wasn’t sintertime yet. We still had at least six more months of wintertime weather to get through. I wondered if someone was listening when I prayed for this weather and took me literally. My gas furnace had been cleaned and maintained, even though I wasn’t ready for wintertime. I would have loved this weather for Christmas, as we would have pulled out our big sled and hitched the horse to it. The boys and my husband and I would wrap up in blankets and turn on the oil furnace to keep our feet warm. All snuggled in the sled, all of us would ride across the fields to visit our mom and dad. This was one of the greatest joys of living in the country. The space furnaces kept us fairly warm, and all of us all sang on the way. I was hoping for that at Christmas, however not before Thanksgiving. I turned up the temperature control and sighed, wintertime was entirely early this year and it was because of me.

 

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I Just Couldn’t Believe it When They Recalled our HVAC Furnace

I was listening to the news last week and they were talking about gas furnace recalls. Our gas furnace had no glitches and we had it for 12 or so years. I could not imagine that there was anything wrong with it that would mandate a recall. Two minutes later, I got a call from the heating and air conditioning corporation and she told me there was a recall on all gas furnaces from this one corporation, and we had one of them. There was a component inside that had a manufacturer defect, but not all of them were doing it. However, that component was cracking from stress and it could put carbon monoxide into the air. They had already ordered me an up-to-date gas furnace and they would come to the beach house and install it as soon as they delivered it. There was no charge for the installation or the gas furnace, and they would return the old gas furnace to the manufacturer. When my husband got home I told him about the recall, but he didn’t seem to be worried and he asked if they knew how long it would take for the gas furnace to be delivered. I said they didn’t know, however they were coming tomorrow to look at the component and make sure there were no stress cracks. He asked if I had packed for us and I looked at him oddly as he said we were going to a hotel until the new gas furnace was installed. He didn’t want his wife and kids dying from carbon monoxide poisoning. The kids thought all of us were going on a trip and so we did. We took them to a hotel that had a water park inside and had fun.

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He Said he was Going to Fix it All on His Own

My husband had been doing all the servicing for the air conditioning unit ever since the warranty ended. He wanted to save a bit of money and he was good at what he did. The heating and air conditioning serviceman came out and showed him what to do and told him he did everything perfectly. Last week he told me that he wanted to shake things up, and I thought he was going to go to work on Sunday and make some changes but I was totally wrong. He planned on going into the basement over the weekend and figuring out how to repair the gas furnace. He had the laptop open and the heating and air conditioning corporation’s website was open to the HOW TO page. He was going to try to clean the gas furnace and the opening to the air duct, but I wasn’t so sure about this. I asked if he wanted me to call the heating and air conditioning corporation to see if Bob was working. He said he had already asked if Bob was working, but he was away with his family for the weekend, so he was going to do this on his own. I was nervous because the gas furnace was already running. What if he forgot to turn the power off first? What if he got burnt, or the oil built up in the gas furnace and exploded when he restarted it? What if he got inside and broke something and the gas furnace wouldn’t work at all? It wasn’t harshly cold yet, however it was chilly enough that all of us needed some heat. My husband said I had to have faith in him, I had faith, however that faith led to having faith that he knew nothing about the gas furnace.

 

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Our Baby Painted her Room Many Different Colors Recently

For her birthday, our sibling bought a painting set for our four year old daughter.

I don’t know what gets into the mind of a child, however mine can get particularly creative.

Last year, she was making a dollhouse out of mud and she buried her doll’s feet in the mud so they wouldn’t tip over and started playing. I was scared to think what she would do with a painting set. When I came home from work the next afternoon I could not hear our daughter. My sibling, who babysits for me, was laying on the sofa watching television and reading a book. I asked her where Mary was and she said she was up in her room napping, despite the fact that she heard get up about 90 minutes ago. I went upstairs and screamed for my sibling, as my kid was on a chair painting her home office with the painting set. She had painted the air vent cover in various colors, and she was now working on the temperature control and it was pink plus purple. She even painted the dial on the temperature control and I could not see the temperature. Since our sibling bought her the painting set, I told her it was up to her to clean the air vent and temperature control. She wasn’t blissful, even though I didn’t care, because buying a painting set for a five-year-old and then leaving them unsupervised with it in reach was stupid. Since the heat was on, the paint was hard to get off the air vent cover and I was slowly getting it off the temperature control. My kid was laying on the bed and complaining that all of us ruined her room.

 

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Two Space Heaters Later we Got one That Everyone Liked

My mother-in-law was a tough cookie, as she tells everyone she wants nothing done for her.

She says she’ll eat anything, despite the fact that she taste tests it before eating. Last week, she complained about how chilly it was in her home office and my husband was bending over backwards to keep her comfortable. On his way to the beach house from work, he stopped by the store and bought a space heater. The space heating system had every comfort and safety feature you could get for a space heater. She used it one night and told him to get it out of her home office. It made too much noise, didn’t heat well enough, plus she thought it was ugly. He took that space heating system back to the store after work and looked for another one. This one had all the safety and comfort features, however it was almost $49 more. He hooked up the space heating system that night, and it had her room boiling hot within fifteen minutes. When all of us got up the next afternoon the space heating system was laying out in the hallway. She told my nice husband that if that is the best they had at that store, she would rather freeze to death. I wanted to tell her she was an ungrateful witch, however my husband grabbed my hand. He packed up the space heating system and took it back to the store. He found an oil-filled space heating system that looked like a seasoned iron radiator. I thought it was ugly, despite the fact that she loved it. My husband set the space heating system in her room and set the temperature control. She slept all night, plus told my husband she liked it but that he didn’t need to buy it.

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