The Ol' Fat Guy Blathers On

My Limited Experience With Pellet Stoves     In my area of the Northeast United States, propane is probably the most expensive home heating fuel available.  I live in a 'over-55' manufactured housing community in which the park owner~ probably for the kick-backs ~contracts with  Suburban Propane as the fuel provider.  The residents have no other choice but to buy fuel from them... or freeze .  On one of my outings in mid-November I found myself in the local Tractor Supply store looking at pellet stoves.  I'd been considering "alternative-fuel heat" almost since the day we bought this place and moved in..... mid-November of 2015.     Each billing cycle from November-to-November became an adventure in economic rape!  Each cycle seemed to be more and more expensive, without appreciable increases in fuel consumption.  To be fair, I've never checked the month-over-month consumption rates.   When we moved in there, my wife~ ...

What's Been Goin' On....     Well, for me~ for the family ~it's been a helluva busy six months! 1.  Moved about 30 miles west of Rochester, N.Y., out into the country.  That move involved 'weeding out,' packing up, loading into "U-Haul" trucks.... the contents of a two-family house that's been occupied by the same extended family since 1963!! The process started in October and finished in November, 2015.  We had to get rid of alot'a stuff that~ under normal circumstances ~I would have probably kept/saved. 2.  The day after Christmas, 2015, I contracted that "creeping crud" going around. I couldn't sleep horizontally for NEARLY THREE WEEKS!  "Short-story-long," the RGH emergency physican essentially told me to go home, take aspirin, cough syrup, rest, drink plenty of liquids...~ oh, and a Rx cough medicine that did 'zero-point-crap' for me ~all that wealth-of-information only cost my insurance company about $700.0...