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what a nice display for mum.. you are a good daughter. As much as my mom drives me crazy a good part of the time the reason she does is that she has a strong will & good mind yet. So that is a blessing (although an annoying to me)... I guess I would rather have my situation than yours, snugs.

Been putting out fires..well actually feeding one.. today. Have raised the temp in the house a few degrees by burning stuff IN firepace in the room under my moms. Have used a fan to get some of the heat into house rather than just out the flue.... found some old magazines from 70s.. prolly worth something on ebay? who knows.. but now they are gone. Did a little drying out as well as heat adding.

I cant burn much more w/out taking out all the ash.. lots of it from the paper Might just let it end soon & cover it up rather than take a chance of the flames etc getting out. will see if I can find the metal pans I used last spring. I think they are full of frozen water outside. Had not planned on using fireplace at all this year..

Hoping my furnace man will be here today. his wife said he has 4 other out furnaces.. so might not be until Thursday.

for some reason the space heaters down here are blowing out the circuits & so I can't use them. The home is NOT that old but it seems all is going to pot at once on it.

Have toby's appt tomorrow at 2. It is about a 90 mile trip. Poor guy. I took some pix but to show you all but I think they would be poor taste. the split on the front LARGE tow pad is quite deep and completely across the toe pad. He wont just set still either.. has to follow me around to basement, fireplace. limps heavily & if I try to see it, he cries..

Hoping my furnace man will be here today. his wife said he has 4 other out furnaces.. so might not be until Thursday.

That is terrible you're having to wait, and wait, and wait for so many days without heat inside. :( If you're having to make do with whatever you can, and however you can, it's no wonder there are people literally freezing to death in their homes every winter. I'm sure most of them are not as resourceful as you are and *have* to rely on others.

Really worried about Toby - it sounds more like it should have been an emergency visit and not wait for an appointment two days after he hurt himself.