Our dead furnace made for a romantic night.
We came home to a snowstorm from a winter vacation in a nice, warm tropical area. Unfortunately, some time while we were gone, our furnace died. We didn’t get home until around dinner time, and my husband tried to fiddle with it a little bit until he realized that we needed to get an HVAC technician on an emergency call. Unfortunately, the storm was getting worse and getting an HVAC technician to the house that night just wasn’t going to happen. We didn’t have any space heaters and we didn’t really want to go back out and buy some that we only needed for one night. We have a fireplace and firewood and we could make do. That was a pretty amazing night. It was certainly romantic. We drank some brandy and sat before the fire and talked and even played cards for a little bit. We never even turned the TV on. We ended up really opening up to each other. We made a bed in front of the fireplace, listened to some music, and got romantic. We don’t often bother with the fireplace, maybe a couple of times a month in winter, because it takes work to get wood and it’s messy to clean. But, I have never enjoyed the fireplace as much as I did that night. That night, the storm blew over and an HVAC technician was out the next morning. We had to buy a whole new furnace. Fortunately, when I found out, I was still in a good mood from our adventure in front of the fireplace.