leading to water stains on furnishings, I silently wondered what to do about this situation and worried about the next rainstorm. Then, through what I believe to have been divine intervention, one was told to retrieve from the garage a roll of heavy duty transparent plastic that was left here years ago by the former owner of the property. Forgetting about this roll of plastic, one questioned where it was stored or thought perhaps it was discarded. Checking in the garage, one was guided to the place where the roll was indeed located. At that time, I realized how to temporarily fix this problem using a stapler. Where the interior room met the house, the plastic was looped in half and stapled on either end of a fascia board where the leaking was occurring and where the house met the room. This solved the problem as rainwater was collected into this bag averting water dripping onto the floor and furnishings. Aesthetically this plastic bag appeared terrible however the problem was solved until a more permanent and inexpensive solution could be found. Discussing this situation with spouse, who was not interested in a more permanent and attractive solution to the problem, I realized that an interior gutter would be inexpensive and suitable however one did not know how to attach the gutter to the fascia board. Divine information then stated to me that two lengths of gutter should be purchased and joined and sealed together using waterproof silicon. Then through the use of hooks and chains the gutter could be supported by the one inch in width fascia board. The procedure was to attach one hook to the inside of the board and directly opposite another hook should be attached on the outside of the fascia board. The chain was then to be wrapped around the gutter for the support of the gutter. Determining that about a five hook and chain system would be required to support approximately a nineteen foot gutter, I telephoned two gutter installation businesses to install this apparatus. After arriving at our home and viewing the situation, both businesses told one that they could not do this simple solution to the problem but instead offered other very expensive solutions. Not wishing to argue, I wondered why they could not do what I asked. Discussing this with spouse, it was decided that I would try to install this system myself. After about two years of draining water out of the bag system, finally and by this year, a family member purchased two ten foot gutters, ten hooks, and five eighteen inch lengths of chains. After promptly adjusting the measurement and joining these gutters together with silicon and attaching one end cap with silicon on one side of the gutter, I attached the hooks to the fascia board. With spouse’s assistance, the gutter was hoisted up where then the chains were looped around the gutter and the links were attached to the hooks for supporting the gutter. The eighteen inch chains provided for adjustment so the water would not spill out from the open end used for draining. After a few rainstorms, spouse checked for an accumulation of water inside the gutter, but to our pleasant surprise it was discovered that all the water dripping into the gutter had evaporated.
In the autumn, a chimney cleaning company was hired to clean out the flu of the fireplace and install a cap over the outside chimney to prevent snow and ice from freezing the damper shut, making it impossible to open during bitter cold weather. In the course of conversation with this tradesman, I discovered that the fireplace style in our home was known as an English fireplace, a style commonly constructed in the 1920’-1940’s. The way this fireplace is constructed yields much heat delivered to the interior of one’s home. This revelation was significant to me because people of my acquaintance would complain over the years that more heat escaped from their home when using their newer and more