I (heart) Texoma Heating and Refrigeration.

They came out today, two guys (one about my age, another younger, seemed like he was a trainee). They spent a lot of time going over the furnace, looking at all the components, trying to get it to work.

Turns out it's a gas valve that more often than not sticks closed and prevents the furnace from lighting.

They got it running, but the valve will need to be replaced. The guy apologetically told me it was an expensive part.

hell, at this point expensive doesn't look so bad. What's been really expensive to me is all the time I lost waiting for the other workmen who didn't show, and all the agony I experienced during that waiting. So I told him "make it so." It should be in Friday, and he said he'd have someone come out and install it when it came in.

I am so happy and so relieved. Right now, I have it set on 78* (hotter than I EVER run it) so it will run for a long time, drive the chill out of the house, and maybe make it a little warm in case it won't relight until the valve is fixed.

The more-experienced guy commented that my furnace was a good make of furnace, and that there were only about four parts that could go wrong in the whole thing.

Look for a return to regularly-scheduled knit-blather, if not tomorrow (tonight is Youth Group and Board Meeting), at least Friday.

Thank God. Thank God.