Tyler and I reached a new milestone last night... we got our furnace running again all by ourselves!

Our furnace ran out of heating oil on Friday night. And, Tyler and I didn't want to pay an extra service charge for delivery on the weekend. So, we decided to wait till Monday to avoid the extra charge. We were also concerned about having to order a minimum delivery of 100 gallons because if everything works out, we'll hopefully be tearing out the furnace in the next couple of weeks. And, if there is fuel oil in the tank, it will cost us money to get rid of the fuel oil. When I called the Linn Co-Op office on Monday and explained the situation, the receptionist gave the driver a call to see how much he would charge to deliver only 50 gallons of fuel oil. Thankfully, the driver in our area - Todd - is a really nice guy and said that if we could wait till he had a delivery in the area he'd do it for free. That would save us another $50. So, I told the receptionist we could wait till Tuesday for the oil.

When Tuesday came and the oil was delivered, Tyler and I had to try and get the furnace started. If you're lucky, all you have to do is hit the reset button and the thing will take off. But, most likely if you ran out of fuel there is air in the fuel line that must go before the furnace will light up. The only problem was I couldn't remember where the bleeder valve was located. Thankfully, I found some wonderful instructions on-line (you can check them out here, http://www.wikihow.com/Restart-a-Furnace-After-Running-out-of-Oil). Tyler had to loosen the bleeder value because I still don't have enough strength in my arm yet. The oil and air came spitting out till it was just solid oil. Then, we closed everything up, turned the furnace back on and it took right off.

So, we once again have all modern conveniences.