Wow we have central heating now, whoopee

We stayed home today because the man from a local heating company said he'd come, and he did. He arrived at 10 AM or so, and after oiling the unit outside, and unplugging the cold air return in the trailer, and making some refinements to that, told us to turn it on, and voila.
The unit was installed in 1986, and still works. It is an electric heat strip, and works like a charm, and can be turned to cold to cool things off too. And total cost was $55.00 so that was such a relief, as we thought we might have to replace it all in its entirety.

The clubhouse here at our new park was decorated today, we didn't go as we were waiting for the heating man, but we did cut down a very overgrown shrub at the side of our house, with the neighbours help. It made it very difficult for the meter man to read the electric meter, and for the propane delivery service to refill our 23 gallon tank. The propane truck also came today as we had run out of propane, and it was filled up, $93.00 and as it's only our stove and oven that use propane, we hope it lasts a long time.

We had a swim in the lovely warm swimming pool here this afternoon, our temps have risen dramatically back into the 70s and seasonal norms, or slightly above, so that is great. Still the sun seems to go down around 4 ish, and it gets cold almost immediately.

Attended a travel club meeting over at Catalina Spa, we should get our final details for the Mexico trip in early January, at that meeting. They are planning either a trip to Hawaii or to Hong Kong in 2012, but we can't think that far ahead at the moment, and are going to Hawaii ourselves in April.

A nice day and great to feel the sun warming us once more. Such a pity that Sal and Russ had to leave today, just when the weather is improving mightily. Back into shorts in the daytime now.