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<\/a>An old-fashioned recipe – baked rice pudding. Delicious. This isn’t going to last long around here.<\/p><\/div>\n
We would use the cookstove a lot more this winter had we had a good supply of firewood. Unfortunately the man who had been delivering firewood to us turned out to be fundamentally dishonest, or just an idiot. And seriously, it is really<\/strong> hard to tell the difference with that guy.<\/p>\n So we made the decision to focus on wood pellets and not try to find a new source of firewood this year.\u00a0\u00a0 All of which means we’ve been saving the small amount of firewood we did purchase in the fall for really cold weather, intending to use the cookstove to supplement our other sources of heat.\u00a0\u00a0 And this winter we are relying on our new technology wood pellet stove in the living room for our main heat source, but because we’re not idiots we also have two propane wall furnaces as a back up heat source. And we had the propane company bring us another large tank of propane to enable us to use them if we needed to.<\/p>\n Second example. The wood pellet stove we bought late last winter when we ran out of firewood, as a direct correlation to dealing with the ‘idiot,’ had an ignitor fail within the first month we had the stove installed.\u00a0 No ignitor, no heat.<\/p>\n Ok…hmmmmmm, manufacturing mistakes can happen.<\/p>\n A new ignitor was installed promptly and everything has been going along swimmingly since then. Until the middle of last night when the ignitor failed again. Hmmmmmm. Sunday… how convenient.<\/p>\n So, propane heat to the rescue with the old technology cookstove providing some additional heat, and baking sweet potatoes at the same time. Maybe I’ll make some pizza too \ud83d\ude42 or muffins for the parrots. They’d like that, little piggies that they are.<\/p>\n We’ll call the company who sold us the wood pellet stove tomorrow morning and hope they can bring us a new part post haste.\u00a0 Propane wall heaters to the rescue until that happens.<\/p>\n On the plus side, the kitchen is nice and cozy and my laptop is portable \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n I finished a knitting project I started a couple of days ago. I bought beads last August when we were in Spokane doing something, planning on making a new knitted purchase. I hadn’t tried this particular color combination before and like it a lot.<\/p>\n