Brrr!

From the "It's Always Something" file - overnight Saturday, our furnace died. The ironic thing is, we're just waiting for the approval of our home equity loan to get a new furnace and do some other winterizing.

We had a repairman come in on Sunday. He said the circuit board died, but because it's an older model, he doesn't have the part and has to order it.

Fortunately, we have electric heat in the master bedroom and Matt's bedroom (left over from when the house was first built - the gas heat was added about 5 years later). The kids slept on the floor of our room and we closed the doors of the other two bedrooms.

It could be worse - it's only seasonably cold right now - 30s overnight and 40s during the day - nothing like the frigid temps we'll get later in the winter. I was worried about how cold the house would be in the morning, but the thermostat read 54 degrees when I got up, so there's either some residual heat coming from the furnace, or just lingering heat in the house.

Larry spoke to the new furnace people today, and they said they can come first thing Tuesday morning. So we're not going to bother getting the old furnace fixed - we'll just huddle under blankets tonight and be grateful that we'll have heat the next day.