The other day we made one exception to our lock down rule, we took both kiddos and went to my grandpa’s to let him see K and to meet my great-great-aunt for the first time, she’s in from California.

When I was literally on my way out the door – and everyone else was already piling in the vehicle – our power went out… again. It went out just like it had gone out on Thursday the first and second times, and came back, it was only out a few seconds. The computer started freaking out so I turned that off and went on out. Steve deposited the dog back inside and we left.

When we got home, I unlocked the door and he took the baby in and subsequently went: WHY IS IT SO HOT IN HERE!?

Usually, that’s my line. I HATE coming into the house when he’s turned off all the fans and/or turned up the a/c, it always feels so stuffy.

But he was right, it was HOT. And it smelled… like a gas furnace.

He took a look at the thermostat and yelled, “who turned the heat on!?” After further discussion we figured out that when the power went off, the thermostat must have freaked out. It was set on 90, and in the few hours that we were gone, the temperature had risen from 76 to 83. I never like it at 83. 75 is really my cut-off. :)

So there goes our cheap gas bill before winter!!

Hehehe, ok, so I’m sure it won’t be that bad. But we were enjoying lower bills since we had to get a new water heater and Steve went ahead and got us an electric one instead of gas. It’s going to be big time bills this winter though, since we can’t use wood heat because of K, at least this year and probably next, too.

That was just so weird though. I don’t know how the thermostat could have freaked to turn the heat on. I guess I don’t know as much about it as I thought but I thought only the heat or the a/c could be on, and that there was a manual button for that. Guess not!