The payoff and warmth
First off, for the worriers, we’re quite warm now. I actually got overheated while sleeping. We have 3 space heaters and a construction heater - that last one pumps out more heat than the three other ones combined. Yes, it’s using quite a bit of extra power at the moment, but to be honest, it’s nothing like the power we were using in the last house. (It had an electric furnace, which got really, really pricey during the cold months.)
If you missed it in the comments below, a new circut board is finding its way to us, free of charge.
Now, if we hadn’t had heating issues, we would have got up early this mornign and headed in to Fredericton to spend the day shopping with a bit of the profit from the sale of the green house. Lest you get the impression we are now rolling in it, most of the modest profit went to pay off debt accumulated while paying for two houses. (note to self: don’t do THAT again.) Many of our purchases have been on a list for a year or more, at least.
And I still need a haircut. The last time was just before I went in for that surgery. Yes, that long ago - almost a year now. I’m quite shaggy and look nothing like my avatar splashed everywhere. I mean, even the blonde is gone (tho the spirit remains).
So, instead of leaving the house unattended for the whole day, we just went to town. Specifically the furniture store which we intended to visit a couple night ago. We got:
- a new box spring for Sarah (the old one would not fit down the stairs in the green house and had to be broken to remove)
- a bed frame for us (the last one we had was a homemade job by Ron, which has been dismantled for years)
- a chest freezer (medium-sized. We left our old one in the house before the green house, as it was too old to move, and ancient when I got it. We figured living close to the mall in the green house we wouldn’t really need one. I really need one. Expect more baking posts.)
- a NEW dryer.
Yeah, the dryer that stoped working a couple weeks ago is in fact unrepairable. Considering we bought it second hand ten years ago, Ron said it’s time for a new one.
You know, we started out married life getting many things second-hand, but appliances was one thing we learned along the way to just break down and get new. I can’t tell you how many stove, fridges, washers and now dryers we - okay *I* - have gone through in just under twenty years.
But I bet Ron can. 
Tuesday is delivery day. I’m going to squeal with joy, and probably Sarah will be quite happy too. To be honest, I really have been taking our latest developments in stride. I mean, it could always be worse, and no-heat-dead-dryer is really not all that bad when I still have electricity AND running water. We’ve been through worse than that, partly on purpose even, and not only survived but learned useful skills for right now.
So it’s all good. Or at least better.
After that we went to Global, a second-hand clothing chain, and got 2 sweaters and two pairs of pants for Ron (one with tags), two pairs of pants and four turtlenecks for me and 2 tshirts, all for $47. The funny part was I’m wearing black pants and a red turtleneck and the first outfit I tried on was… black pants and a red turtleneck. But they are different, I *swear*. (and they need to be replaced 
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You could say things are finally looking up.
