THANKFUL FOR MY HANDYMAN

I kept waking up this morning and I thought it was still early because my arm was cold when it was out from under the covers. We turn the heat down at night, but then before time to get up our nice thermostat tells the furnace to come on so we can rise to a nice warm house. Well, that didn't happen today!! It was pretty chilly out from under those covers --- 60 degrees in the hall. I passed on my morning shower ---the warm water would have been fine, but then getting out while wet would not have been so nice!! Handyman came out and lit the fireplace so we weren't completely without heat and I went upstairs to the bonus room and turned on the heat pump that we have mainly for cooling the room. After breakfast in the dining room (which is close to the fireplace) handyman put on warm clothes and crawled under the house to check on the furnace.
It turned out to be the fan (again) that blows the exhaust from the furnace to the outside. We've had some trouble with this before, but handyman had cleaned and oiled it and kept it working. After he figured out the problem he went to a shop here in town to purchase one, but they didn't have the correct part. They told him where he might find it on Monday. Well, it's gonna be cold this weekend, so he went back under the house and worked on the fan some more and got it working. Ahhh-it's so nice to hear the furnace running again. But now he's looking for the replacement online. We're going to go ahead and replace the part since that's the third time he's had to help it along. I don't think we want to keep having the same problem over and over again. But, we're thankful that we had the gas logs and heat pump to keep us warm while the problem was being corrected and even more thankful to have a live-in handyman who can fix just about anything!!