November the Eighth.

The eighth day of November, 2016.
It's gonna be a big day for us.

First off, in the wee hours of the morning, we'll need to be at the Moncton airport to pick up The Man-Son as he arrives back from his visit to Ontario. (just a wee bit jealous that I don't get to go!!)

But we had better be back here by 8:30 a.m.sharp or maybe it'll be 9:00 or 9:30.... since that will be the day our wood stove arrives!

It was only supposed to be a 4-6 week wait. You see, I guess there is not a HUGE demand for wood cook stoves, so they wait until there is an order before making one. Well, either business is going really good right now, or many employees were off sick, but whatever the reason.....
It's been an eight week wait.
Sigh.
It's not getting any warmer either!

East neighbour is pretty confident that the snow will arrive before our stove does.

I have mentioned it before, but it bears repeating........
This is (well actually ISN'T yet) our only source of heat.

We do have four small space heaters. One for you, one for me, one for the "bathroom" and an extra just in case.

When we heard yesterday that the stove wasn't coming until AFTER the snow arrived, I called the oil tank people.
The basement has an oil tank, furnace and duct work. The living room has a thermostat and every room has registers.
Maybe they could work a little magic and warm us up while we waited. Besides a secondary source of heat would be a good thing right?

They could work some magic to be sure. But to the song of about six thousand buckaroos. Maybe you've heard that song before? It goes like this..."Six thousand buckaroos! They're mine now, but used to belong to Youuuuu. To you,,...humm, hum, hummmm. la, da, dah, da, da"

Like we thought, the oil tank was beyond use. An important piece was laying, busted off, on the floor.
And although we were right in thinking that the furnace looked in good shape, there was a vital piece missing.

The chimney.

Oh! that's why there used to be a hole in the kitchen floor?! Ooops, that hole is now plugged and covered with b-e-a-U-tiful ceramic tile. Not that we wanted an oil furnace chimney running up beside our wood stove and it's chimney. Best the fellow could figure was they most likely had the two joined together, not the most legal set up. But John Smith wasn't going to let "legal" slow him down!!

So our options? Well, make that one. Option. We gotta scrap the whole enchilada and start over. New tank, new direct vent furnace. Oh, we could keep the duct work if we really wanted too. Awe, thanks.

Well, guess we'll have to count the pennies in the cookie jar and make up our minds.
That is if the cold doesn't make it up for us.

Good job we have that extra "just in case" space heater!! It will come in handy for such times as these! :)
Guess it's also a good job we all seem to have our Adventurous spirits in-tack!
Hummm...I wonder what low temperature they hold out until?  
Stay tuned, we'll let you know. :)