Wood Pellet Weekend
Our primary source of heating in our new house is a wood pellet stove. Back in Maryland, we had a woodstove in the basement and electric baseboard heat upstairs that we resisted turning on as long as possible because it was so expensive. The woodstove, on the other hand, was wonderful, and we used it as much as we could. However, it took a while to
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We've had an exceptionally beautiful fall, even by Vermont standards, from what I've been told. We had nice foliage in Maryland too, and I never quite got what the hullabaloo was about New England leaves, but I totally get it now.
We don't have a fan for the pellet stove, but it's smack in the middle of the house and the house is very small, so I think it will be okay. We do have kerosene backup that distributes throughout the house.
Our woodstove in Maryland had passive heat vents to help heat the upstairs, but the house was too big, and we could never fully rely on it. It did become summer-like in the basement, and it was nothing to lounge around in a tank top and shorts down there.
Thankfully, all that's left of wood-pellet-related labor for this year is hauling bags up from the barn in feet of snow uphill the wrong way. ;)
I read Thomas the Rhymer on Oshun's recommendation when I started writing "Tamlin" the first time, which was now years ago, I'm embarrassed to say. I really enjoyed it, and it was one of the few novels that I kept when we culled our book collection prior to moving. My Tamlin will be ... quite different. After all these years, I hope it will be worth the anticipation I've built around it, but I'm very happy with it so far.
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