Propane

This picture of a fire you see, is how we heat our house. Living in the country we are on a propane tank and just like gas for your car, the cost of propane keeps going up and up. Last winter we paid $1.59 a gallon and this winter it has been up to $2.13 a gallon. Now we have a 500 gallon tank and I think last winter we spent around $1300 on propane. So this winer I purchased a wood burning furnace. This furnace is in our basement and connects to our central air unit and uses our air ducts. It works pretty good and we haven't turned on our propane furnace for over week now. Of course this does create some work for us because we have to cut all of this fire wood to be able to burn. The good part about cutting the wood is living in the country we have access to PLENTY of wood and we are getting a great workout cutting the wood. In this second picture is some split wood and it is a funny little story.
Okay, in all the movies you see the rugged tough guy who lives on the farm, he will split wood with an ax. Well I have always had that image in my head so today, I thought I would see if I could split a hard piece of wood with an ax. Well, this picture shows my accomplishment. Gretchen had a good laugh out of me, because I said how tough I felt and for anyone that knows me, is that I am not really a tough guy. Most likely we will use the power splitter when we need to split wood, but most likely we will just cut smaller pieces that do not need split.

So for one day though. I am a rugged tough guy who split wood with an ax!