Our furnace had a stroke last night. As in, it broke somewhere between bedtime and 2:30 a.m. As in, brrrrrr. As in, if I had realized, I would have invited Chappy up on the bed to help me keep warm! As in, unusually for this time of year, my car felt WARM when I got into it this morning!

The furnace fellow was here somewhere around 9:00 this morning, but we needed a part he didn’t have, and had to order. Which could have taken until tomorrow! Mom borrowed a couple space heaters from a neighbor, Dad went out and got a “good” one from Home Depot. Chappy tried to stay up off the floor. (I sat at my desk in my heated, if drafty, office.) Luckily, though, they got the part and were back here to fix it around 1:00. I don’t think the house dropped below 57 or so . . . which is cold, but not life threatening (and the water in Chappy’s dish didn’t freeze). It’s pretty much back to normal now, but things like closets, drawers, and cabinets are still COLD! I wore my blue shawl draped over a blue sweater all day, which at least kept me warm (and garnered some compliments, too!)

No photos again tonight–there’s really nothing that photogenic around, since Chappy just left the room. I’m almost ready to increase into the next section of my pi-are-square shawl, though I don’t know how far into that I’ll get tonight. I haven’t touched my spinning in the last couple of days because my wrists are sore. I really want to figure out the long-draft, too!

I finished a very interesting book, “Kabloona,” over the weekend–a memoir of a Frenchman who went to live with the Eskimos for a year, back when they were still uncontaminated by too much interaction with the white-man (which is what “Kabloona” means). Really interesting, and good to read on a blizzard-y weekend–really, 20-degrees and a foot of snow is NOTHING!

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