Monday, January 8, 2007
the heater
Growing up I discovered the heater coming out of the wall. It was behind the chair in the front room. I would get a blanky and sit by the heater and get so warm it was lovely. The few years we lived in Burley there was only radiant heat. I tried to sit by it but it was certainly not the same as the warm air flowing into the blanky and around your body. We moved to South Jordan and I found the heater coming out of the floor. It didn't work quite as good as the wall heater but I could still sit on top of it or over to the side with a blanky and capture the really warm air. Then we got a new 3 stage furnace. The warm air was just not as warm. Nat and I read many a book sitting with a blanky over the heater in the dinning room. Then came the wood floors all over the upstairs. How uncomfortable is it to cozy up to the heater and have to sit on the hard wood floor? And so I have seized the only heater left. It is by the side of my bed. I take the metal grate off so all the heat possible can come out. I try to remember to put the grate back on each time. I can see old warrior innocently walking by the bed to get in and stepping unknowingly into the depths of the heating system. That wouldn't be too good.
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I, too, was very sad when our heater wasn't very warm anymore, and when the wood floor magically appeared in the course of two days. (Oh, wait...YOU helped put that hard thing in! :)
If you ever feel the urge to get pleasantly warm, turn up the heat, and take a little nappy in my room...though it might be stinky or dirty...then it might not be as pleasant...
Maybe it is time to trade sides of the bed with the old warrior. Then you could sneak outof bed at night and cozy up to the heater. Oh, except you probrably turn the heat off at night.
I frequently find OScar with his blankie, over the heat vent in his room. I think it is genetic. I too love the heater...now we need to convince the oatmuncher that heaters are a good thing!
Heaters are fine, so long as the heating bill also stays fine. I say as long as the house is just warm enough that the pipes don't freeze, all is well.
Growing up in the basement with no heat at night makes one tough.
First of all, did you write this in the middle of the night at work? Imagine that, thinking about laying by the heater while up in the middle of the night. And I the idea of you laying on the floor next to your bed to get all cozy makes me laugh...
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