Gave in to The Heat
Nope, we didn't make it to Halloween or November; at about 2 p.m. Saturday, October 18, the furnace kicked in and the heat was turned on at the Dunne-Hosey Estates.
While driving home from my mother's house Friday for the late birthday dinner, cake and gifts session (mom is a fine baker and the double chocolate cake is aces), Val and I discussed this. We figured that if the temperture hit 55 degrees in the house (obviously while we were there) that we would turn on the heat. It especially hit us when we got to my mother's house and she complained of still being a bit cold, while her furnace and house were at 70 degrees.
Overnight Friday/Saturday, our house got rather cold, and when I got up Saturday morning and checked the thermostat, it read 53 degrees. After breakfast, we stopped at Home Depot to get some new furnace filters and light bulbs (for a wedding present lamp with bulbs not easily found elsewhere), and we also stoped at NAPA Auto Parts to buy some new winter windshield wipers for Val's car, which we put on the car in the parking lot.
So we got home, put the new filter in and Val set the automatic thermostat to 64 degrees while we are home (which may change if heating bills get too high) and 55 degrees while we're gone and overnight. Of course, we'd like to set it higher, but we have a more than 100-year-old, 2 1/2-story house and would retch at the natural gas payments otherwise.
While driving home from my mother's house Friday for the late birthday dinner, cake and gifts session (mom is a fine baker and the double chocolate cake is aces), Val and I discussed this. We figured that if the temperture hit 55 degrees in the house (obviously while we were there) that we would turn on the heat. It especially hit us when we got to my mother's house and she complained of still being a bit cold, while her furnace and house were at 70 degrees.
Overnight Friday/Saturday, our house got rather cold, and when I got up Saturday morning and checked the thermostat, it read 53 degrees. After breakfast, we stopped at Home Depot to get some new furnace filters and light bulbs (for a wedding present lamp with bulbs not easily found elsewhere), and we also stoped at NAPA Auto Parts to buy some new winter windshield wipers for Val's car, which we put on the car in the parking lot.
So we got home, put the new filter in and Val set the automatic thermostat to 64 degrees while we are home (which may change if heating bills get too high) and 55 degrees while we're gone and overnight. Of course, we'd like to set it higher, but we have a more than 100-year-old, 2 1/2-story house and would retch at the natural gas payments otherwise.
posted by Kevin J. Hosey at 6:53 AM
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