I think Murphy is trying to teach me a lesson.....

My first house was heated with electric and a wood stove. Not a bad combo 15 years ago but the cost of electricity is through the roof these days as well.... I pay almost as much for it as I do fuel... Can't survive without either up here....
Warmed to -32*. A regular heat wave.....

 

EVERYTHING is expensive now I think. Even wood. If you have to pay anything what-so-ever for it, you're better off just paying an oil, gas or electric bill. By the time you pay for the wood, then cut it, split it, stack it, dry it, UN-stack it, burn it then play with ashes and cleanings of the chimney, how much time do you have into it? Time is money and I know I can spend my time a LOT more productively! I realize there are circumstances that would require one to burn wood, especially if someone had their own woodlot, but there's still a lot of time involved.

 

I dont mess with wood anymore and I get it for free.

Dont know why but I thought you guys didn't get thunderstorms during the winter.

They are loud!! I have one from a school they were tearing down. Works on DC or AC. Years ago my son connected it up to an old timer from a Mr Coffee and hid it under our bed.
He was so lucky he had already gone to school before it went off.

Hmmm, never worked on a cat dance.

Yeah. Hows that ankle doing anyway?

Rats. chaikwa already beat me to it.

 

Well, I'm sitting here 'working on a project' and waiting on dinner to simmer out - tequila lime chicken.

Dog got a bath. No more stinky dog...yay.

Turned on the fireplace too...ahh ambiance.

Put the first batch of jerky in today. It's a citrusy teriyaki. The second batch is my bourbon chicken marinade (but with Sailor Jerry)


Hmmm, I see a pattern....

 

Exactly. That's why my last winter at that place I used mostly electric.... Even though I got all my wood for free... Of course I'd love to have only a $145/mo elec bill again....

Bacon wrapped moose tenderloin for dinner tonight..... Then gonna take the kids for icecream.....

Still -38*.....

 

Jeez Marc, -38 is waaayyy too warm for ice cream. Still in the lower digits here as well, but not nearly as bad as yesterday. I must be turning into one of those "outsiders" I have no ambition anymore if it turns cool. that said, everyone else has plenty of ideas to keep me moving.

Wood is still cheaper than heating oil. If you use the cord of wood = 100usg of oil, wood is 200/cord heating oil is 4.98 /usg. that's 498 bucks worth of heat for 200 dollars. Not a bad trade off. I do agree that re-handling kills. That said, consider it value-added. It keeps you warm when you cut it, again when you split it, again when you stack it. Then it keeps you warm when you transfer it to the wood chute, then again when it heats the house. How many times does oil do that? You also get the benefit of exercise, fresh air, and the best part of all... NOBODY bothers the guy with the running chainsaw.

Anyway, enough for now. Have fun out there.

 

wood makes me happy (evil smiley icon )

same thought SuperPind, and we like doing wood in the winter, keeps us active and the deer like the tender tree tops. did flatten a four wheeler years back when a frozen tree twisted..... enjoyed burning that one.


well bacon/moose tenderloin or not, the winds here are steady at 30 and gusts to 72 nice to have free air travel to alaska, but I am staying home tonight.

Marc, you are getting things broke because you post about bacon wrapped moose tenderloin. nothing breaks when you just hunted it......lol let me know if your wife wants wine. take some extra days off, snicker snicker

 

Dont mind running around with the chain saw and hockey mask but the rest of it is work.

Had something weird happen a few hours ago. Everybody (ok not many, I have no friends) in my yahoo contact list got e-mails from me wanting them to click on a link.
The link is to that fake Russian anti-virus program that actually infects your computer.
Funny thing is, my computer is not infected according to Avast, Malwarebytes, Microsoft security essentials and the Microsoft malicious software removal tool.
I just recently signed up for facebook because of my Daughter, and a visiting niece just used my computer and says she went to facebook but had accidentaly
signed on to my account since I had not logged off from yahoo (guess they are connected nowadays).
Only thing I can I can figure is my yahoo account got hacked.
Any ideas?

 

I have this idea that you're a yahoo.... does that count?

Other than that, I am one of those anti-social networking types. I haven't tried facebook, and don't think I'm going to bother. Regular e-mail works fine for me, and a phone, no matter how many gadgets, is still a phone.

Freakin neanderthals......

 

I agree. Like you, I prefer talking for a short while on the phone or having short letters.
Now, thanks to my Daughter and Son's prompting I am apparently full of viruses and social diseases.
I cough on you all

 

No such luck on that Bark. Sometimes we even have winter tornadoes. Doorbell under the bed, I wonder what kind of parental terror he was trying to repay.

I didn't say it.

You know, I never really considered ice cream a warm treat but at -38, I guess it is.

Stepson got that one on the laptop a few weeks back, took a while to clean it. I'm still getting some tracking cookies I can't explain. As to you getting hacked, maybe it's the log in. You know you can log in from other sites? Look just to the left of where you sign in here and there's an option to sign in from other sites.

Hmmmm...... What to add to your user title now??????

Morning, up early, can't sleep.

 

Same here...
-35* still. Weather guessers say it might warm to a sweltering -25*.

Gonna be a spendy day today.... Fuel oil and groceries.... That'll kill a paycheck.

 

As far as the wood goes; to each his own I guess. I think if I had all the extra time to fool around with wood, I'd either sell it or get a second job and buy the oil. Either way I'd end up with extra money in my pocket instead of just a pile of wood.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18th:

1803 - Thomas Jefferson, in secret communication with Congress, sought authorization for the first official exploration by the U.S. government.

1778 - English navigator Captain James Cook discovered the Hawaiian Islands, which he called the "Sandwich Islands."

1788 - The first English settlers arrived in Australia's Botany Bay to establish a penal colony. The group moved north eight days later and settled at Port Jackson.

1911 - For the first time an aircraft landed on a ship. Pilot Eugene B. Ely flew onto the deck of the USS Pennsylvania in San Francisco harbor.

1943 - During World War II, the Soviets announced that they had broken the **** siege of Leningrad, which had began in September of 1941.

1943 - U.S. commercial bakers stopped selling sliced bread. Only whole loaves were sold during the ban until the end of World War II.

1957 - The first, non-stop, around-the-world, jet flight came to an end at Riverside, CA. The plane was refueled in mid-flight by huge aerial tankers.

1964 - The plans for the World Trade Center in New York were disclosed.

1967 - Albert DeSalvo, who claimed to be the "Boston Strangler," was convicted in Cambridge, MA, of armed robbery, assault and sex offenses. He was sentenced to life in prison. Desalvo was killed in 1973 by a fellow inmate.

1987 - For the first time in history the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) was seen by over 100 million viewers. The audience was measured during the week of January 12-18.

1990 - In an FBI sting, Washington, DC, Mayor Marion Barry was arrested for drug possession. He was later convicted of a misdemeanor.

1991 - Eastern Airlines shut down after 62 years in business due to financial problems.

1993 - The Martin Luther King Jr. holiday was observed in all 50 U.S. states for the first time.

1995 - A network of caves were discovered near the town of Vallon-Pont-d'Arc in southern France. The caves contained paintings and engravings that were 17,000 to 20,000 years old. T-Rad was thought to be the artist.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
If you place a small value in yourself, (your work, product, service), rest assured, the world won’t raise the price.

Coffee's on.

 

See, I don't have a problem. If I did I'd be denying it

 

Morning sleepies. I'm dragging hard. I want to go back to bed. Stayed up late last night and woke up at intervals to check on the jerky I've got going. Didn't want to overdo some pieces.

Got in a little weight workout too last night. That felt good.