Country living

Went out for a light dinner and came home to a house at 50 degrees and a furnace making an odd sound. Crap. Sounds like a bearing going out but I cannot get any heat. Got a nice fire going and the house is warming up -- the fireplace insert is big enough that I can stuff it, damp it down and have a good 10 hours of heat. Supposed to warm up this weekend and heading in to Lulu's house for a few days tomorrow anyway -- schedule the heating people to come out next Tuesday or Wednesday. And I just got done with all of the water well problems as well as having the chest freezer fail and losing over 300 pounds of organic pork and grass-fed beef. Throw in the divorce and 2011 has been a hell of a year. That being said, I have not felt this happy or content in a long long time.