My Kid Tried To Burn Down The House

Okay strictly speaking it was an accident, but still very unfun for most of us.

The situation is thus. We have a nice furnace in our home which blows plenty of nice warm air throughout. However, this being an older structure, the furnace ducting was not considered during the original construction. This means that we have one big vent in the floor of the main room on the upper floor, directly above the furnace.

So my son, who is just 4 got his hands on a brownie mix and dumped it down the furnace vent, presumably to see the flour fly up.

What happened was, of course it go into the furnace elements and heated up well beyond its intended temperature. Smoke issued forth. Alarms were raised.

My wife and I, being otherwise occupied at the time (or else we would have prevented the incident), had no idea what was going on. All we saw was huge amounts of smoke and blaring fire alarms. Needless to say we got everyone out and dialed 911.

Only then did we recognize the smell of brownies.

The fire dept. were gracious. There certainly was enough smoke to warrant concern. They kindly blew the smoke out and made sure that everything was okay. I’m just glad nobody was hurt.

My Dog Hates Hard Wood Floors

So we just moved into a new house. Don’t lets get started on what happened to the old house. Well the place has these really cool hard wood floors, which the wife and I just love.

The dog hates them. She won’t walk on them to save her life. She just looks at them and sniffs them and then whines when we walk into the next room and leave her there trying to figure out how to cross those darned floors.

Me, I kinda get a kick out of it. After all she just has to take one step and realize that the floor won’t bite back. My wife on the other hand is extremely frustrated. She likes having the dog with her at every moment.

What to do? Well for now I think I’ll just let the situation play itself out. Either the dog learns to love the floor or she can enjoy the carpet in the basement.