We have a masonry heater in our home and it provides most of our winter heat. It's supplemented by radiant floor heating, which is powered (on sunny days) by our solar panels. Our home is also passive-solar design, so on sunny days you can really tell the difference in the amount of fire you need, unless it's super cold and windy. Then I get that thing blazing and keep it going all day.
So now the weather folks are predicting a high of 50 degrees on Thursday! We definitely won't be needing fire that day. Maybe it's just me, but I prefer it to be below freezing with a bit of snow this time of year--at least in Wisconsin. Now if I lived in Florida....
well, I would never live in Florida, so never mind.
On a completely different topic--check out the entries for Project Quilting this week. Amazing. These folks are creating something in one week. ONE. Sheesh! Just click on "Where Creativity Blossoms" under Cool Stuff on the top right side of this page and then place your vote. Easy, peasy.
I need to go do a snow dance now.
Oh, and if you are interested in learning more about masonry heaters, you can find some info here--these are the folks who installed ours and helped us design our home:
http://gimmeshelteronline.com/
No comments:
Post a Comment