The two of us really should have gotten the oil furnace fixed before the Winter time started this year. There were so numerous warning signs that we were going to have troubles with our oil furnace this year, but I just kept on ignoring them. I guess I am just a single of those people who constantly hopes for the best. The problem with thinking love that is that I do not really method for the worst, either, and however, whenever you live in a weather conditions the way ours is, you really do need to method for the worst in the winter. Where we live up in the mountains, it gets really chilly during the winter. If you do not have a well functioning heating system, then you are going to be in large trouble. Everyone around here has a backup heating plan plus their normal heating system. That is really just to be on the safe side. In our case, we have a certainly outdated oil oil furnace in our house. Whenever it is toiling well, it keeps the home really sizzling & toasty; But unfortunately for us, sometimes it goes on the bconnect. Our backup heating source is a wood burning fireplace. It’s not something that we use certainly often, however at least we have it when we need it. It’s a nice thing that we have had it this year because our oil oil furnace went out again & the temperatures were in the single digits! I had some wood cut for the wood burning fireplace, but I really wish that we had gotten the oil furnace fixed a few weeks ago.