Falling Temperatures

Lately I have been writing a lot about snow. Some people, like Cheyenne, like snow and want some of it. I wish it were in my power to give her some of what is piled up in my yard. I’m not greedy. I’d give her most, if not all, of it.

But it has also has brought cold temperature. Everyone got excited the other day when we warmed up to 32 degrees. Thirty-two degrees – that’s freezing. Cold temperatures and falling temperatures are nothing new this year.

Saturday morning I woke up and according to the TV the temperature outside was 13 degrees. That’s when I noticed it was also a little nippy inside the house. Our programmable thermostat read 51 degrees! That is a far cry from the toasty 70 degrees I am use to waking up with. The furnace wasn’t working.

That’s when I called my neighbor, my good friend, my golf partner. Did I happen to mention he owns a heating and air conditioning business?

Ralph: Bobby my furnace isn’t working.
Bobby: I’ll be there in a minute.
Ralph: Say, there’s no hurry, whenever (Yes, I was lying)
Bobby: I’ll be there in a minute.

About a minute later, Bobby was at my door. Now this is where the story gets good. He took the panel off my furnace, looked at it for about thirty seconds, then within a minute he had it going again. I’m not kidding! It took less than three minutes to look in there see the problem and fix it. That is what I call expertise.

I have always appreciated people with that kind of expertise in their chosen field. But I can tell you first hand, when the temperature is rapidly falling inside your house you REALLY appreciate it.

On another note, it is snowing again. We already have about six inches and it is still snowing hard. This is the fifth weekend in a row it has snowed.