Well….as I close in on the move date, I needed to work on details that will make the place ready to go…and today, I needed to test out the new thermostat, burn the crud off the stove top burners, and check out the over the range microwave/fan….and today, I was successful at all three…got the burners cleaned off with them red all the way from the inside coil to the outside one on all 4 burners…but boy did they stink and smoke doing it…think I may have to clean the ash off of them before I get into any cooking…when I got over there, the first thing I did was to turn the heat on and the furnace fired right up, ran a cycle, and shut down again…and did it one more time before I shut it off when I was leaving…I can’t believe how quiet the thing is compared to the 747 sound of the one here…and at 60 years old, I still think that’s a miracle…I had it set at 66 degrees and that was plenty warm enough to work in shorts and a t-shirt but we’ll see what it’s like just sitting and watching tv…still think I’ll have to go with long pants, socks, and a long sleeved t-shirt but I think I can get used to it…the last thing I worked on was the microwave/fan over the stove top that my son said hasn’t worked in more than 10 years but I have experience with microwaves and normally, when they don’t work, it’s just a fuse, so I took the face of it apart, located the fuse, and wrapped it in tin foil to just test to see if that is it…and I laughed out loud when it lit up and the fan worked so now instead of a replacement job, it’s now turned into a cleaning and repair job that I can do after I move in…so, quite a successful morning at the house…just need to get to the final cleaning to get ready to move and put my tools away….6 days….