This morning I was abruptly awakened to Derek's attempt to get our furnace up and running. Our furnace has been acting up for two winters now. Last year wasn't so bad, it was just annoying. Derek thought it was a glitch in the thermostat until this year. We have had someone out to work on our furnace almost monthly this winter. This morning was slightly different than the other times and more frightening too.
Usually our furnace just won't turn on, so we have to reset it. This year our furnace pumps too much oil into the fire box and then when the furnace ignites it sends the horrible smelling fuel fumes throughout our house. Last night however, the pump kept pumping fuel and the fire box never ignited. So when Derek went to start the furnace this morning it made this awful chugging noise. (It was shaking the walls- I know that's not saying much because we live in a trailer-but it was still nerve racking)
After turning off the furnace, a fire was still ignited in the firebox because of all the oil residue in the box. There was oil on the outside of our furnace this time too, that's what made me nervous. When Derek called our oil company at 6:00 am this morning they said the fire would stay contained in the box, my question was, if the fire stays contained, how does the oil get on the outside? So the fire stayed lit in the firebox for over 30 minutes. Black smoke rolling out of our chimney.
The good news, the fire finally snuffed out, our repair man came and replaced the pump and sprayed some awesome odor eliminating spray into our blower fan so that it filled our house with a pleasant smell rather than heating oil fumes. The bad news, our furnace control module is on it's way out.
More good news, spring is coming! The relief-- we will be buying a new furnace, switching from oil (because we are now required to by the mobile home park) to propane and getting central air! I'm excited but hesitant as I know it won't be free. But I know it will calm my worries about my family's safety and comfort.
Some more good, I found my camera that has been missing for a week, where I left it, in my dress coat pocket (that shows you how much I wear that thing!), our projects for the wedding are coming along smoothly, we meet with our DJ tonight and Cake Baker on Sunday.
The not so good, I accidently deleted all the pictures off of Derek's camera last night by accident. It wouldn't have been so bad because all the pictures were already downloaded on the computer EXCEPT the ones I took last weekend of my youngest holding my great nephew with her sister and my sisters dog all curled up together! (I guess it calls for a picture re-do!) Such as life. I have the memory.
Looking forward to a smoother downhill ride to the day. AND I'm hoping when I lose the Murphy name the Law goes with it! :)
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