I am sitting here in my house and it’s 63 degrees.
Why?
Because I am too lazy to get off my ass, run to Home Depot and get a fuse for the central heating system! The heater has been down since last March.
I can’t run one of the space heaters (here in my office) unless I unplug my bedroom heater and plug this one in one of the other sockets. This room has two different circuits, one of which is where I have my computer plugged in and I sure as hell am not going to screw up my 'puter. The other circuit can’t handle two space heaters and my TV at the same time.
I guarantee you one serious cold snap (where it gets close to 5 degrees or less) and I will be having that heater fired up and running.
This is why I love my natural gas heat. Wonderful stuff. Great for the odd day, once every few years when the power goes out in the winter here in Mississippi.
It is a natural gas heater but the blower (there’s a squirrel cage in this particular unit) is run by electricity and the fuse blew last Spring and I have been damn lazy to get fix it.
Tonight though I am having second thoughts on being lazy about it.
The thing I hate doing is lighting the pilots…that’s particularly scary.
I would have the utilities company come over and do it for me but my house is such a pig sty (trust me on this) that unless it’s an emergency no one is allowed in.
I think I will pick up a carbon monoxide detector when I am at it.
I think it’s nationwide, everyone running natural gas or heating oil is experiencing 30-40% increases. We are on a city run utility so ours may be less because of how the systems are set up.
That is part of the reason why I will be running the heater less in the rest of the house and keep my office and bedroom (upstairs), once I get the thing up and running.
Yep, I am a wuss. I prefer the temp to be somewhere around 74 degrees. I can handle lower temps when I am asleep but when I am awake I need it toasty.
I, cannot, for the life of me figure out how people stayed warm before modern heating systems. I don’t think I would have enjoyed living in those times. Even fireplaces put out minimum heat unless you are in that specific room.
I use the big dog method of heat. When my feet are cold, I let my big dog lay on them. When it is cold at night, my big dog sleeps in my bed. Fortunately I live in the south so I don’t have many 3 dog nights.
I’m in that boat as well. I Used to be winter friendly. Then, for some reason, I became a Lizard, or Bear. I hate winter. Cold weather bothers me. Wet, Cold rain is worse than the deepest pits of hell. Snow… I’m from the south, snow is a myth.
I can tell that the outside temperature has gotten into the 40s (F) lately because my wife turned off the window fan in the bedroom. Once it’s in the low 30s she might close the window.
I’m wussier than that, so I sleep in the living room.
My mother used to sleep with a bedroom window open, even on very cold nights. I never understood this.
Luckily I got up early enough (8:00 is early for me) to open up the curtains/blinds in the two rooms up here. Nothing like free heat to warm things up. It’s at about 68 degrees and I still have a blanket on my legs and feet!
I keep it at 65, except for early AM - hard to face earl;y mornings as it is, but to hit a cold floor…
…guess I’m just a hot-blooded kind of guy…
Palmyra, you do know that is where they got the name if the group, right? A 3 dog night was very cold… don’t think they had too many sheep near your namesake city, tho…
