Fall is in The Air

You can feel Fall is in the air.  It gets quite chilly at night and in the morning the house if cold enough to kick on the furnace a couple times.  It was foggy earlier, they said, but now it is full sun.  They are busy working next door on the new house so I hear lots of vehicles driving in early to get started for the day. It is only 57 now but will get up to 70 probably before the day is over. I love this kind of weather.

Furnace

Tuesday we had to get a new furnace. It is sure much more efficient than the old one so maybe our bills will be less. Hope so. It has a really different chimney on the roof and it puts so much more of the heat inside the house instead of up the chimney. Another thing I like is that the filters are so much easier to change. I really like that as I had to cut fiberglas to fit the other furnace. If you are allergic to fiberglas that is bad. Fortunately for me, it doesn't bother me much. As if that wasn't enough, both shutoff valves under the master bedroom vanity sprung a leak the same day and had to be replaced too but I am sure glad it is all done.

Watching the House

We watch a house for these folks who go to Arizona for the winter. We make sure the plants are watered, the furnace is running ok and the house is warm. Today I went over to check on things and there was a foot of ice on the whole step going into the house. There was no way I could get the door open. So I went home and got my husband and he brought a spade and chopped at the ice until he got it all off. Then we could get the door open. Got the plants taken care of and went all thru the house and basement and everything was fine. It looks like a piece of siding has come loose on the garage though and will probably tear off if this wind keeps up. According to the weatherman, the wind is just getting started and could hit 45 mph gusts tomorrow so we don't hold out much hope of that siding staying on. I set their furnace a bit higher too as we have had outages of electricity off and on and sure don't want their water to freeze as they have hot water heat. By the time I went to get the mail about 4:00 pm, it was blizzard conditions at the end of the court where we live. Snow banks were forming quite a bit on the curve in the road nearby.