Brrr....Shiver
Yesterday evening after we got home from a busy day, we find a message on our answering machine from our landlord that the boiler that keeps our apartment warm is kaput. The repair men will be coming on Monday to fix it. Until then our landlord will provide us with space heaters that he has left on the front porch. I go down and see three small space heaters there. Are they all for us? We live on the third floor of a three story house. Each floor is an apartment. Is the heat out in all of them or just ours.

I take them all up to our apartment. This will work. One heater in my office, one in my wife's office, and one in the living room. When we go to bed we can move one into the bedroom.

After a few minutes, the landlord stops by to ask if we got the message. He also informs us that it is one heater per floor. So we have to give back two of them. Hmmm. Not good.

Our living room and dinning room are really a big double parlor and it opens up into the kitchen. It is a rather large open space. The little space heater does not really work well there. Last night it did manage to keep it warm. And it worked well in our small bedroom. But this morning, when the living room was cold, it is having a hard time heating the whole place. I will have to bake something today so that the heat from the oven can help heat the kitchen.

One thing I would like to know, why is it that the heat goes off the nights that we hit record cold. Last night the temperature dropped to 25 degrees. The normal low for this time of year is 40. This happened to us when we were in Italy as well. On one of the coldest nights there, the temperture was like -8 Celsius (you do the math to convert), our heat went out. We did not have a space heater there. It was not fun.

It is supposed to warm up this weekend, getting back to normal tempertures. I sure hope so, I have a lot to do. It is hard to type when your fingers are cold.

Man, do I miss Puerto Rico now!