Yea it’s cold! Boo, the heat doesn’t work!

Solution: use the fireplace in the “playroom”. Rob had to guard it all afternoon.
Rob and Jacob had fun putting stuff in the fire – scrap wood, cardboard boxes, pieces of tree branches fallen, the file folder of stuff waiting to be shredded…

And with no chairs in this room other than the computer desk (it is the playroom after all), we all sat on the floor in front of it.

The kids thought it was fun. We had no grate (?) – the thing that blocks the little sparks/ashes, so Rob propped a board against the white bucket (empty of scrap wood) to protect us.
Now, hurry up home warranty repairman and get here! There’s no fire today – all the pyro’s had to go to work!