The best laid plans

This weekend we had planned to add on to our existing gas line so that we could install a wall mounted gas heater in our living room. As the adage goes about the best laid plans of mice and men..... so it was with us. Nothing worked out the way we had planned for it to. We had to finish installing sheet rock on the wall that we wanted the heater to go. That of course took time. Since Randy got a late start on this project while I was at work yesterday, it still wasn't completed by the time I arrived home. It got dark before we even completed the sheet rock installation, so we were unable to put the pipe together or go any further on the project. We resumed working on the installation today after lunch. We discovered that we needed some additional pipe. Randy was able to find what we needed locally. He went and picked up the piece we needed and only after he got home did he discover that there is an additional connector that he is in need of. So, we will have to wait for my day off to hopefully complete this installation. The overnight low is predicted to be around 39, but it often gets several degrees cooler here than what is predicted. I figure we can expect lows closer to 34 or 35. We have a fire going, but I want to get this heater installed as soon as possible. The fire went out sometime last night and when Randy awoke around 5 am to use the bathroom he had to re-start it. He said it was pretty cool in the house at that time. It is unusual that someone didn't get up during the night, but some nights no one does. That's one reason that I will be so happy to have a more reliable source of heat. That and the fact that we spent over $600 for wood last year and don't have the resources to do that this year. It shouldn't cost us anywhere near that much to heat with gas this winter.