Friday, January 12, 2007

Tonight or in the morning

Now and especially when the kids were younger I would always come to the choice about 10 pm. Should I stay up and clean the house so that I can go to bed knowing the house is somewhat in order and knowing I don't have to do it in the morning. Or should I go to bed now and get some nice sleep and tackle the house in the AM. I found through the years that either way it had to be done sometime.

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.