The Importance of Being Heated

Saturday morning Sean and I awoke to some early rising kids. When we tumbled out of bed, we noticed it felt rather cold. I checked the thermostat, which was set normal but the house temp read low. The heater was even running but the air wasn't warm. After Sean checked out the pilot light and such, we couldn't figure out what was wrong, so we called a repair company. The dude came out, looked at our furnace once and remarked how amazingly old and dangerous our model was, then looked again and saw that it had three cracks. He immediately told us he could not work on it because of the danger and shut off the gas. And told us to get a new furnace. So we did. And it was an all day affair.

Once the installers came, Dash and Liam had to be around to keep an eye on things. But we had to keep them plenty occupied so they wouldn't scurry up the attic ladder themselves (which they proved they can do quite easily...). Out came the touchpad.

Sometimes they play so well together on it. And sometimes they play so horribly together on it.

Sean kept up his studying while keeping tabs on the workers.

The boys liked to follow the workers' progress as they went out to their truck.

There it is, the 40 year old furnace that is no longer.

They spent quite a bit of time telling me how the truck is blue. In fact, they spend quite a bit of time every day telling me how everything is "booo," even if it's yellow or green or red.

And then Liam reacted to the sound of the drill:

Ha ha ha, now that's a face.

They got to wear their jackets all day. Dash was sooo happy when he remembered he had a hood he could wear.

They also had loads of fun playing with the stair gate that had been temporarily translocated to the guest room. Such simple things, such fun.

The installers were there for about four hours- quite an ordeal. And it didn't end there. The boys slept fitfully through the night and I discovered why the next morning- it was broiling in their room. Sean looked around and saw that the installers knocked a duct loose. But they came and fixed that on Monday, so we just turned the heat really low until then. Phewf! How unexpected.

And that is the story of the furnace.