Bob kept telling Marsha he had to get outside and do something.
Unfortunately, it had been snowing for 4 days straight.
Bob wanted to split wood so he would have it for the fireplace. Ever since the price of heating fuel hit $8 a gallon, they had been using the fireplace as their sole source of heating. Bob and Marsha kept the doors open in the lake house, and worked superbly. They had so much old wood down because of storms over the last several years, so they didn’t need to buy wood. Bob said it was free fuel, and it didn’t use electricity, so they should use what they were offered. With it snowing as hard as it was, and being more than 10 degrees below normal, they were using so much wood. Bob and Marsha had gone through twice as much as they thought they would, and the couple ended up with an empty wood bin. Unless it stops snowing soon, Bob and Marsha wouldn’t have heat much longer. After several days of constant snow, it dawned bright and sunny one morning. Bob and Marsha donned their heavy jackets and headed out to get wood. It took nearly all day, but they had enough wood in the woodshed and on the porch to last them the rest of the winter, even if they got snowed in. Bob didn’t know what they would do without the fireplace, because the price of fuel was too much for them to afford. Not only did the fireplace keep their home comfortable, but it also gave them night light when they got up in the middle of the evening. No one complains when something has a dual purpose.