My sweetie just called (0920) to ask how to get the garage door up since the power went out. (It is snowing and cold and blowing and icy and all those neat things today! They're about to close everything down around here!) I told her how to do it and she got off to wherever. She then called me back and said, "You certainly do appear to be brilliant, buying a woodstove AND a generator!"
The reason for the woodstove was in case we lost power, we would not freeze and could cook. The main reason for the generator was for the normal stuff PLUS we are on a well--if we have no power, we also have no water, unlike a lot of you city dwellers. We talked about that for a bit and then she went on and I went back to work.
Did you notice what she said? She didn't say I WAS/AM brilliant . . ., she said I APPEAR to be brilliant! :roll: After 38 years of being married to this woman, I can still depend on her to keep the possibility of me getting too proud very remote. Oh well, I do the best I can. She was also in favor of the stove and generator, because, if nothing else, she is, like me, very practical and likes to be prepared for the unexpected. AND she enjoys the heck out of the nice heat the FV puts out.
The reason for the woodstove was in case we lost power, we would not freeze and could cook. The main reason for the generator was for the normal stuff PLUS we are on a well--if we have no power, we also have no water, unlike a lot of you city dwellers. We talked about that for a bit and then she went on and I went back to work.
Did you notice what she said? She didn't say I WAS/AM brilliant . . ., she said I APPEAR to be brilliant! :roll: After 38 years of being married to this woman, I can still depend on her to keep the possibility of me getting too proud very remote. Oh well, I do the best I can. She was also in favor of the stove and generator, because, if nothing else, she is, like me, very practical and likes to be prepared for the unexpected. AND she enjoys the heck out of the nice heat the FV puts out.
We had a bad ice storm last year. It left parts of the state without power for two weeks! We didn't have a stove, so we had to leave the house and go to the inlaws where they heat with wood. We had to move the whole family (four boys, wife and I,) two dogs and two iguanas for almost a week. :roll: Our indoor plants almost died. I slept home for three nights and lit a fire in the fireplace just to keep the pipes from freezing! We now have two stoves and a generator. Sure feels nice to know that if we lose power again we could stay home and be content!! Not to mention all the money we saved so far this winter by heating with free firewood. My wife wasn't happy when I spent $80 on a used stove last february (I was laid off and money was tight,) but it has saved us over a thousand dollars in heating costs. :bug: The funny thing is she still isn't willing to recognize that it was a good move!! :cheese: She sure likes the house at 73 °F , though!
