Since our furnace up and died two months ago, we’ve had a steady stream of Furnace Men coming to our house. They’ve come to measure, estimate, install, check, adjust, and re-check. This is all very thrilling to my kids. They are fascinated with the ductwork, wiring, insulation, and all the special equipment. Even without all that, any visitor makes for […]
An Ordinary January Day
One of the few homeschool blogs I read fairly regularly challenged readers to blog about an ordinary day each month of the year, so we could read about real life homeschooling, unvarnished. I loved reading about this blogger’s day and I considered writing my own, but being a bit of a scientist at heart I immediately worried about bias. If […]
Furnaces: 99.94% Effective
I’ll be 30 years old in April and as far as I can recall, I have had a working furnace every week of my life. Except this last one. So really, I have nothing to complain about. In fact, in college, my husband and I lived in an old hotel-style apartment which was situated directly above the noisiest, most vigorous […]