With the winter season, I've been thinking about the huge old furnace Grappa Eddie Smitmajer had in his basement. When I was a kid this furnace seemed GI-NORMOUS. And all those ducts coming out the top made me think it was a metal octopus. You never knew when one of those metal arms might reach down and grab a kid when she wasn't looking.
This furnace was huge and inefficient. Still, Grappa managed to get the temperature in the house up to 80 or 90 degrees on a regular basis in winter. He liked it toasty and warm!
Here he is at the kitchen table. His birthday would have been Feb 2.
