April 26, 2008 – Stocking up on Fuel
We’ve always bee forward-looking about having supplies for future times. Years of canning food for the winter, buying meat by the hundreds of pounds at a time, and most recently signing up for a wind turbine. Now, I’ve locked in most of the fuel to heat the house next winter. There’s no one who predicts that the pellets will be cheaper next fall than they are now – so “investing” in this cost now will probably beat money invested in the market! With corn prices rising with no end in site, it will not be cheaper to burn wood pellets rather than corn in the corn stove.
We hauled home 4 tons of wood pellets home today – this is about 1/4 of the pile – these are tucked in the attached garage.
There is a bit of a strange warning on the bag:
I’m glad that the “Not for Human Consumption” warning was on the bag before I drizzled the wood pellets with a light raspberry viniagarette dressing for my daily requirements of fiber.
one year ago…”Thingamajig Thursday #69″
One Response to “April 26, 2008 – Stocking up on Fuel”
Sandra says:
June 18, 2008 at 12:03 pm
We are considering stocking up on wood pellets too. Did you buy these bags locally in bulk? We are near Rhodes & State Center. For starting our burner we have bought a few bags at a time at Theisen’s in Marshalltown (I think?).
Just checking to see if you could share/recommend your source for bulk wood pellets.
Have been following your site since I saw/commented on an early post about the wind turbine, so it was fun to see that it got installed. Was also reassuring to see posts this past winter about getting snowed in, sometimes it felt like we lived on the only road wasn’t getting plowed.