Fireplace Drama

Well I woke up Saturday morning and the house felt cold but I figured it was just because it was cold outside so I turned the thermostat up and went about my morning routine. A few hours later Ray mentioned being cold and then Scott said that he had not heard the heater turn on lately. Thermostat read 65 degrees despite being set to run until 70 degrees. I turned it off and then back on, nothing. Being the great heater repairman I am I announced that heater was just tired and probably needed a break. Scott quickly informed me that they do not work that way and that we would need to call our repair service.

I call them up only to find out it will be mid afternoon before anyone can get to us. I decided the best thing to do would be to go about my morning just knowing that by early evening all would be fine.

I tried to sew Saturday morning while we waited but my hands just could not function with the house now at 55 degrees. He arrived around 1:00 or so and told us the blower motor had gone out but he had the part on his truck, yeah!!! He starts putting it in and finds that another part was also damaged and it was not in stock and could not be gotten until Monday, yuck!

Thankfully we have a fireplace so we all spent the day pretty much piled out in the front room by it. That night we slept out there and around 1:45 am a log rolled out of the fireplace and landed on Vincents blanket. We heard it rolling and within seconds I was yelling and Vincent was jumping up. He was fine and other than a small mess of embers to clean up nothing happened to anyone or anything. I have to tell you though after that I had a very hard time going back to sleep!

Sunday morning the house was 5o degrees and we were all cold, achy and tired. We stayed home from church in order to keep the fire going in the fireplace, we were worried about the house getting colder and the pipes freezing plus we were all just too achy to do much. The one thing that still causes my back to ache is the cold.

My mom did bring us two little portable heaters Sunday afternoon that she uses when she goes camping and they made Sunday night much more comfortable. However Sunday night would not be without incident either. Scott and I made Vincent sleep further away from the fireplace, put smaller logs in the fireplace and then off to sleep we all went. I am not sure what time it was but I heard Scott put another log on and then heard him sweeping the hearth like he always does when he puts one it. Well I guess he hit an ember and did not notice it; he hung the little broom back up and laid back down. He said he kept smelling something burning but thought it was just the wood and knowing he had to work today kept trying to fall back to sleep. Suddenly I heard him jump up and I noticed that smoke was pouring out of the broom, he had caught it on fire! Praise God again other that needing a new broom nothing was damaged and no one got hurt!

I could hardly wait for the repair man to arrive today! Our house is now warm and toasty, no fire in the fireplace to worry about and we will all be able to snuggle into our beds and get a good nights sleep!