stubbed toes and mud pies

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new furnace is in.

kind of a crazy day with Mom making blueberry muffins this morning, plus wanting me to use up the entire loaf of bread she didn't like to make a bunch of grilled ham and cheese sandwhiches (i made one extra dark by accident so that was set aside for me for lunch) all the while she's baking muffins and then the guys show up to start tearing out the old furnace and then Mom had to go out for an appointment and drop off the muffins and sandwiches and the head guy for the furnace install had to go out and come back and the driveway was plugged up by two vans from the HVAC people and then we had someone coming over for lunch and playing cards with Mom and i'm doing dishes and also trying to watch a few other things that were going on and our cousin called to give me her address so we could get a package to her.

i really much more prefer a one-thing-at-a-time very quiet and peaceful sort of life.

a nap would be nice.

 

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new furnace is in.

kind of a crazy day with Mom making blueberry muffins this morning, plus wanting me to use up the entire loaf of bread she didn't like to make a bunch of grilled ham and cheese sandwhiches (i made one extra dark by accident so that was set aside for me for lunch) all the while she's baking muffins and then the guys show up to start tearing out the old furnace and then Mom had to go out for an appointment and drop off the muffins and sandwiches and the head guy for the furnace install had to go out and come back and the driveway was plugged up by two vans from the HVAC people and then we had someone coming over for lunch and playing cards with Mom and i'm doing dishes and also trying to watch a few other things that were going on and our cousin called to give me her address so we could get a package to her.

i really much more prefer a one-thing-at-a-time very quiet and peaceful sort of life.

a nap would be nice.

Wowsa sounds like you are in the thick off it. Did your heat source give up the ghost?

 

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Wowsa sounds like you are in the thick off it. Did your heat source give up the ghost?

yes, propane burning furnaces and time means eventual replacement needed. we'd already had the heat exchanger replaced once plus other things done over the 28yrs so it was time to get it done. the heat exchanger was cracked and we were getting rather nasty smell in the house, plus likely some CO. for the past week we've mostly been using electric space heaters and the oven to keep the house warm and it did ok, but once in a while we did have to run the furnace to keep the crawlspace warm so the pipes would not freeze.

we have a better furnace with a bit more capacity than the previous one so it will burn a little more propane but it is also supposed to be more efficient so perhaps it will end up being a wash, plus if it heats the house faster then perhaps less electricity needed to run the fan. trade-offs... we'll see how it goes.

i'm just glad to have it done and so we can be back to somewhat normal (ha ) and we have some pretty cold weather still in the forecast. i'm glad too that we were able to find someone who could work us in - our regular HVAC company was booked for the next several weeks.

glad to see you back. hope you and family are doing well there?