co-mod post....contest deadline extension....

[misstia]

our winter themed ads were suppose to go through just tomorrow.....BUT......my furnace thought it would be fun to poison me the past couple weeks with carbon monoxide (i thought i had the flu, thank goodness for a drafty old house) and i will be getting a new furnace on monday and possibly through tuesday....SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.....since i will be an icicle and will be busy rounding up critters monday, dealing with that, etc i'm extending the deadline.....

winter themed ads contest will go through tuesday! i'll post the finalists on wednesday!!

so there's still time to post ads and still time to vote for ads!!

not an auspicious start to 2011!

Comments

[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

oh I dunno ... surviving carbon monoxide sounds pretty damn auspicious to me. that could easily have been much worse.

[misstia]

true.....if my house wasn't so drafty and actually had insulation i know i wouldn't be here right now.....the level was pretty high; but now it's at zero and we're at 45 degrees in here! :)

[noluck-boston.livejournal.com]

Thank god for old drafty house!

This coming from a very draft 1900 Boston Double Decker house.

[misstia]

what's a double decker house? i am envisioning a double decker bus! yes, chortling i know....i'm sure you get that a lot....never heard of a double decker house though....

Double and triple

[noluck-boston.livejournal.com]

Boston is famous for its Triple Decker homes. We have many and they are Victorian. Manly produced 1865-1900. There are variations, like my smaller two story one. Many generations live through-out the home. Grandparents on the first, Mom and Dad on the second, One of the Kids on the top. Some combo like that.

Here is a picture of a typical Triple Decker.

(http://www.greentechboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/triple113.jpg)

Here is my little home in the Snow.

(http://i546.photobucket.com/albums/hh440/AdamsBoston/PC200002.jpg)

Re: Double and triple

[misstia]

thank you for the visuals!!! i've seen these houses before, the style, but did not know they were called double or triple deckers!!

[meleth.livejournal.com]

Glad you're alright, and that your house saved you from your furnace.

[misstia]

yes! my house saved me and i would give it a cookie and a huge hug, but am unsure how to do that....i did thank the house though, have thanked it several times....

someone's bringing me a kerosene heater today as i can see my breathe this morning and am typing this wearing gloves! brrrr!!!

[foxsong.livejournal.com]

So glad to hear you're alright!!! ...and feeling a new appreciation for my husband's insistence on getting carbon monoxide alarms as well as smoke alarms when we moved into this house. =8-o

[misstia]

definitely have carbon monoxide alarms!!!! i learned the hard way!!! it might not BE the flu!!! i got sick critters too.....we all have cm poisoning....

[whoseline_wlsc]

Oh goodness sorry to hear that! Glad to hear you're OK, and hope you get things better. I guess drafty houses can be a good thing (coming from a super-drafty house built in the 1800s).

[misstia]

yep, three cheers for drafty houses!!! :)

[weelisa.livejournal.com]

Wow - that's awful! We've got two carbon monoxide alarms because we heat with gas. Also, it costs, but it's a good idea to get a yearly inspection.

Can you plug in some electrical heat until the furnace gets fixed? It'll cost but it's better than freezing.

[misstia]

i have a little electrical heater i borrowed from a neighbor....i can't put it above low or it'll flip a breaker...a friend should be here any minute with a kerosene heater...i can see my breathe in my house!!!

i'm also ghetto heating with the oven on right now!

definitely gonna be doing yearly furnace inspections, even though i'll have a new furnace!!!! and i'm keeping the carbon monoxide alarm too!!

[weelisa.livejournal.com]

Can you beg, borrow or steal any more heaters? I agree you have to be careful with the electric, but if you make sure the heaters are on different fuses (sorry, we still have fuses in our very old house) - that way you can have more than one going?

Yeah, I'm a little nervous in case that is bad advice.

You probably know this about kerosene heaters, but you'll need some ventilation in the house for safety - like crack a window open - which is why I never used our kerosene heater. If the heater doesn't come with the instructions, please google for how to use it properly.

Consider wrapping your water pipes in insulation so they don't freeze and trying to live/sleep in one small room with the heater (esp if you don't have more than one.)

Take care!

[misstia]

just got the kerosene heater hooked up and going (in the basement for now)....it said nothing about having a window or door cracked but i am paranoid as fuck, so i have the side door open! good to know, thanks!!! i'm gonna have it run in the basement for about an hour or so (taking a quick break from there now) while i clean down there for the furnace guy....then i'm gonna turn it off while i take a bath and then i figure it'll be cooled off enough by then and i'll bring it up to the first floor to run for a couple hours before bedtime....i won't leave ANY heater on at bedtime....

good idea about running heaters on different breakers!! THANKS!!! a friend brought me another electric heater!! i just gotta figure out which plug is on what breaker and then i can use two at once!!! of course, on low, or it'll flip the breaker....

i don't mind sleeping in a cold room....i have flannel sheets, numerous blankets and a down comforter....i was okay last night....now getting OUT of bed was a different story! just one more night!!! :)

thanks again! gotta get back down to the basement! and i have my carbon monoxide detector still on too, that'll help if the kerosene heater starts generating CM!!