Gas fireplace maintenance completed

Go to bed in your fireplace, you'll sleep like a log.

Ellen DeGeneres

Yearly service for our gas fireplace insert today and the able cat assistant was right there inspecting after the guy took off the glass and surround. Next, in came the tool kit from the truck, very exciting. When we added our kitchen addition in 2002 , our carpenter, who is a certified dog person, wanted to get Max his own tool belt , he was such a fine assistant.

The leaves on a self seeded ornamental tree at our corner changed just this week. The varying hues run the full autumn color chart. We have been hearing scary predictions for a strong storm now raising havoc near Cuba, Hurricane Sandy. She could sweep up the east coast and play some horrid tricks here around Halloween. Whispers and chilling echos of the "No Name", "The Perfect Storm "(spawning a sad and terrifying true story made into a motion picture) of 1991 are starting. We shall play wait and watch weather hype hysteria now for the next week.

'"The worst of it should peak early Tuesday, but it will stretch into midweek, forecasters say...

'It'll be a rough couple days from Hatteras up to Cape Cod,' said forecaster Jim Cisco of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration prediction center in College Park, Md. 'We don't have many modern precedents for what the models are suggesting.'

It is likely to hit during a full moon when tides are near their highest, increasing coastal flooding potential, NOAA forecasts warn. And with some trees still leafy and the potential for snow, power outages could last to Election Day, some meteorologists fear." Associated Press

For the Record,
This day came in bright and cool. Thoughts of storm prep rolling around in my head.