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Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II

03/08/2012 06:22:38 PM · #12351

ask art to light a torch, he's in there already

03/08/2012 08:38:34 PM · #12352

The torch burned out...but that is ok...I am out of the dark room

03/08/2012 08:42:44 PM · #12353

and into the fire!

03/08/2012 08:53:50 PM · #12354

mmmmm fire.

it's cold here

03/08/2012 09:30:23 PM · #12355

Cold here, too, but I just got our heating oil bill - YIKES! up 50% from 3 months ago. >:/

03/08/2012 09:36:24 PM · #12356

I'm in the south...No heating oil bill......YEA

03/08/2012 09:38:44 PM · #12357

but people tawk funny there.

03/08/2012 09:41:50 PM · #12358

hey Ya'll talk funny

03/08/2012 10:16:48 PM · #12359

We have gas heat. Last year when it was really cold, my heating bill was over $300/mo for Dec, Jan and Feb and I ad the thermostat set at 57F.

Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II

03/09/2012 07:25:34 PM · #12360

In all the confusion, Spork nearly got away with the crown.

sinistral_leo

Nikon D5100

03/09/2012 07:39:23 PM · #12361

I have a coal stove right in my living room, it looks like a wood stove, but much better heat. It is not as messy as people say. I burn two tons a season which cost me about $550 delivered. It comes in 40lbs bags on a pallet that conveniently fit into a 5gal bucket.

The best part is I only have to mess with the stove twice a day, as opposed to wood stoves that you are constantly filling. I shake mine down and fill'r up at 6am and 6pm...that's it. It even works when the power is out.

My only other option is electric baseboard heat which I tried for 1 month and was $700!!! never again...

03/09/2012 07:47:03 PM · #12362

When we bought this house 17 years ago, we had a problem with the 25+ year old oil heater and were thinking of replacing it with gas, but a friend talked us into just upgrading to a newer oil heater which they said burns cleaner and is cheaper than gas. It has worked out great and has been cheaper than gas. Until recently anyway.

The coal stove sounds good. I have a wood stove and baseboard heat in my office (750sqft apartment over the detached garage) and I use it occasionally, but I spend too much time playing with the fire and finding things to burn. :)

03/09/2012 08:46:15 PM · #12363

hey ya'll

Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II

03/09/2012 09:01:32 PM · #12364

Wood stoves were outlawed here in town because people were installing the "remote burner" style wood heaters and evidently the smell bothers people...whatever. I use my fireplace in winter and will burn about 1-1.5 cords of hardwood, but it really only heats the living room and the bedroom upstairs. The real problem is that the power goes out 3 or 4 times each winter because of the fucked up way the power grid is laid out in this neighborhood. Sometimes it's only out for a few hours other times it's out for days. Last winter when it was really cold, the power was out for 4 days. The house was down to 38F.

sinistral_leo

Nikon D5100

03/09/2012 10:09:13 PM · #12365

That is because you are burning a "cord" trying burning a "chord" you will get much better results ;-)

goinskiing

Canon EOS-6D

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

03/09/2012 10:11:35 PM · #12366

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03/09/2012 11:40:40 PM · #12367

Originally posted by sinistral_leo:

That is because you are burning a "cord" trying burning a "chord" you will get much better results ;-)

I tried burning some chords, but I got in trouble for lighting the piano on fire.

03/09/2012 11:42:20 PM · #12368

I burn quarts of wood.

03/10/2012 01:14:16 AM · #12369

you and your fancy pellets

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 USM

03/10/2012 05:33:17 AM · #12370

I saw them make some burning fuel thingies out of shredded paper on Doomsday Preppers. I might try that.

RayEthier

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

03/10/2012 06:35:31 AM · #12371

I win, I win

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 USM

03/10/2012 01:26:23 PM · #12372

you'd better let me win, you seem overexcited.

RayEthier

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

03/10/2012 02:10:07 PM · #12373

Originally posted by Spork99:

you'd better let me win, you seem overexcited.

Of course I was excited, I cleared the latest 6 inches of snow off of my driveway and walkway, and since just the other day my neighbors were bemoaning the fact that the snow was all gone, I fired up the snow blower at 4am, just to let them know that it was back...

Now tell me I don't think of my fellow man.... :O)

Ray

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