Merry Christmas!

A blessed morning watching kids opening presents as the magic of Christmas filled the air and huge smiles on their faces.  I know, Christmas isn't about presents but it IS about giving.  
Christ freely gave his own life so that choose to do so may have eternal salvation!

Well, the central gas heater went out yesterday evening.  James tried for hours to figure out what was going on with it and we even called out a tech to look at it.  The tech just shook his head and said no, I can't fix "this".  So, he left wishing us all a Merry Christmas!  Lol, be filled and warmed, no, just be filled lol.  

In normal times, it wouldn't be so bad but now? It's been frigid cold and even space heaters are struggling to keep up with it.  It's 11:30 am and it's still only 35 degrees outside!  Wednesday the forecast shows the temps going back up to normal ranges for this region at this time of year.  James did eventually figure out what was wrong, but on Christmas Eve, good luck finding parts.  So we are without heat until whenever that part shows up.  I would assume Tuesday.  

I took one of my space heaters out of my room last night to heat up the area where the grandma was sleeping.  My room froze.  I just now got it back - grandma left with all 3 boys back to Arkansas where they will spend the rest of their Christmas and several more days afterward before 2 of them are brought home.  

I turned the oven on in the kitchen, the upper oven and opened the door. I was given strange looks on that one but after a while, that entire room was nicely heated up.  Electric bills be damned, it's too cold to be sitting around in an icy cold house, especially having bronchitis where cold air aggravates the condition and causes me to go into coughing attacks.  

Now that I have both heaters back in here, my room is finally starting to heat up again.  Maybe the coughing will go back down after it's warm in here.  You know, a heater couldn't pick a worse time to go out...Christmas Eve Day and on into Christmas, the middle of a extreme cold spell and a weekend to boot.  

Oh well.  I spent several hours yesterday inputting my RV park into various different and more RV park directories and local business directories.  Going out to the property is out of the question, even tho the visiting kid was begging me to take him over there. I just couldn't, it would have caused me to go into a coughing event that I don't want to go through again any time soon. I'm still coughing but it's because it's cold in here.  Another 30 minutes and it should be good with that second heater blasting away.  

Anyway, I can't do anything but internet work for now, might as well get this stuff done.  My Google rankings are going up because of all of these directories I have put the park in.  I'm hoping it will pay off, the information provided me by seasoned park owners is that in January, people will flood their parks with reservations and then it will die off until May which is when it will pick up again.  

But, I have also posted the park in a bunch of local sell groups hoping to score some long term tenants as well.  At reduced rates, I'm hopeful a few will be tempted to take a look.