Fired Up!

DH fired up the wood boiler.  It needed some parts replaced before we could start using it this fall, and, with his schedule being a bit heavy on work-related travel, I had to turn on the heat with the propane boiler a few weeks ago.

But now he's home, the wood boiler is in working condition, and the first fire of the season has been lit.  Actually it should be the fire for the next six months--it should only get stoked from here on out, never allowed to die out completely until spring and warm weather are once again well established.

We are officially heating for "free" now.  Or, for whatever pennies or fraction of pennies per day it costs to recoup the price of the new grates in the wood boiler, plus the gas & oil for the chainsaw and the splitter to prepare all this free wood we are burning.  And the slight increase in our monthly electric bill that the fan/damper motor on the wood boiler creates. 

Definitely hundreds of dollars less over the winter than heating with the propane boiler would cost.  And it smells so good.  Like bacon!  Mmmmm       ;0)