Wednesday, October 24, 2007

The Time Machine

This morning the baby and I were sleeping in after getting the other children off to school. Susannah has a cough which wakes her five times an hour and makes the nights long (or too short, however you want to look at it). After having our furnace checked for Fall maintenance last Wednesday, it no longer heats so the One Hour Heating and AC were going to send out a crew this morning. Jonathan sauntered in about nine thirty and mentioned something about a Time-machine ready. "Okay Jonathan, go sit in your bed and read books until Mommy wakes up and I'll bring you some fruit snacks." I rolled over and went back to bed. Pretty soon I hear the back door slamming. I get up and yell from the top of the stairs, "Jonathan? Have you been outside?" "Yes, Mother. I am not climbing the ladder because ladders are dangerous!" "Jonathan, are there men down there?" "Yes, two men." I hurried and got dressed. I opened the blinds to see a yellow truck from One Hour Heating and AC with a big hour clock on it...ahh, the "time machine." Steven, a technician, mentioned that Jonathan surprised them by climbing up their sixteen foot ladder and peeping through the door to the furnace (in the attic of our vaulted ceiling house). "Don't worry, Ma'am. I verbally guided him back down the ladder." He reassured me. $108.00 later for a new time switch for the heater and still no hot air. I called the company back and they sent another technician this afternoon who found a mysterious circuit board, which they removed and will call Lennox about, and rewired our furnace. Finally, heat!

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