it's never pretty.
yesterday, i decided that i HAD TO find the furnace filter and change it. i haven't been able to find the blasted thing and i KNOW it needs to be changed. i haven't been able to open the furnace casing. so yesterday was the day.
i managed to open the furnace, and found the filter!!!! YAY!!!! can't get it out, but at least i found it!!!!! it's one of those that you have to wash, and i don't want to break it.
i put the casing back on and walked away - figured a better effort would be switching the clothes from summer to winter, and getting the comforter on the bed and the bedspread in the laundry and so on.
woke up this morning to a VERY VERY VERY cold house, and could NOT get the furnace on. flipped the emergency switch. checked the circuit breaker. nothing.
took the casing off again, and pushed the little button right THERE. the system revved, but didn't light. there was no pilot light. i left the casing off the furnace because ....
i called public service, and he showed up within an hour [miraculous!!!!]. he picked up the casing and put it on and the system started right up!!!! he said that the system won't operate [that little button] unless the door's on right, and i didn't have it on right!!!!!
so i put him to work doing a few other things - like fixing the dial on the oven so that the dial doesn't say 350 and the actual temperature is 425!! and re=lighting the gas fireplace [the pilot went out]. and re-setting the programmable thermostat to fahrenheit because somehow last year i managed to get Celsius displayed, and i've been doing the conversions in my head all this time!!!!!
bottom line - any candidates for JIFF's husband material - just line up, please so we can interview you!!!! qualifications: sense of humor, love of children and animals, knows how to fix things, sense of humor. etc.