Getting cold... long ramble ahead

It is starting to get cold out, temperature dropping more and more all the time, so I have went out to the Alaska Heating Assistance website to look into if I can get some help with repairing the heater here in the house before winter hits. Looks very promising, so I just have to fill out their paperwork and submit that to them.

Wanted to do that last year, even had gal on phone that said to fax it to her so she could get it processed for us. Told people I was doing that, then went to town one day with sister, got kidnapped on a Gilligan's Island version of the three hour tour, and got home to find out that the nephew I had specifically told 'do not touch it' had organized the abduction of me to give him time to tear apart the heater and work on it.

That was... well, what the hell could I do after the fact? Trouble is, the repair job only lasted three days then it was down again. He jurry rigged it a few more times, but the heater was totally unreliable and screwy and limped its way through the start of winter through my coaxing it to "please not stop" and running a fireplace I installed upstairs to offset the continual failures. It no longer worked at all about halfway through winter and I am still trying to get the thing fixed. Hopefully the heating assistance guys can help, and this time I know that nephew won't dive in to screw with it since none of them have spoken to me or dad since dad got annoyed over stuff with his car.

So, anyway, I am going to see if I can get the heater fixed properly this time. See if the State can help get it fixed so that dad's not freezing his backside off as I try to heat the house with a non-airtight Franklin fireplace and electric heaters. Hard to keep a place warm when you have to put out the fire when you are not in the room. I swear we stayed warmer when we were living on one of those old manufactured homes they made in Palmer years back, thing stayed nice and cozy, and the temperatures were even down in the -60 F range then. That was the time period where I messed up my lungs stepping onto porch and it turned out to be -60 outside. NEVER do that. To this day I start choking when air is below freezing level.

I think that getting doors fixed would help too. The cat can dang near get in without the door being opened thanks to the door freezing over the winter and doorframe expanding. Of course, the crack in the house probably contributed to that, but the cracks was there back when they built this place.

I need to get the paperwork for the heating place filled out so I can send it in on Monday, so I will stop this ramble and get that worked on. G'night y'all.