New Exercise Program

As I was doing some puttering around the house yesterday, I was kind of chilly. I better get that bread baking so the oven will be on and take the chill out of the house. Didn't work, I was still chilly. I walked by one of the heat registers and thought I felt cold air blowing, I went back and checked; sure enough, it is 10* out and our furnace is blowing cold air. Not a good sign!

I called one of our local furncae repair places and they could send a man out right away. Thank you, Lord. Frank came out and found the problem immediately. Now for the bigger problem, the part that we need he cannot have until some time Thursday (it was Wednesday lunch time when Frank was here). The furnace has a loose connection, and it works when it feels like working and does not work when it does not feel like working. You can wiggle that wire and the furnace will work properly again, until the next time it needs to kick in.

The new exercise program? Every time the furnace kicks in, I have to run downstairs and wiggle this wire! When it is 10* out, that makes for a lot of running up and down the stairs!

When the King got home he was able to rig up a few rubberbands and hook them to the wire and the top of the furnace though, and that keeps pressure on the loose wire. Pressure on the loose wire makes the furnace run on it's own! Who would of thought that a few rubberbands was all that was needed to make the furnace run?

Frank will still be coming today to replace the part for us. The rubberbands did the trick to get us through the night, though. I was not looking forward to running downstairs several times in the middle of the night to wiggle a wire!

We will still need to use our furnace for a few months, but the weather outlook is looking up for a while. Today we are supposed to be in the twenties and tomorrow the thirties! It has been a long time since we saw the thirties!