GAS!

OK now, we're really getting close. When we got in Sunday night there was still no gas at the house, but they had it 5 houses up the street in one direction, 1 block down the street in the other direction, on the street behind our house, and 1 block over in front of our house.

So close!! Then Monday afternoon an Entergy service truck pulled up across the street with a front-end loader, dug a hole in the pavement, and started pumping water out of the line! By nightfall we had Gas!

Though the workers still had to come back the next morning to finish up, that first night with gas heat was delightful. I promise never to complain about the cost of gas ever again...well, not really. BTW, for those blog visitors from more northern climes, the night before the temperature had plummeted from a daytime high of 71 degrees during the day to 45 degrees Fahrenheit (7 C for our European family) for a brief moment during the night. By the next morning it was back to 60 degrees F. We survived by running small electric heaters & bundling up. (Yeah, I know -- we're wimps.)