Winter time Bridge On Line

A good way to pass the time between snowstorms is playing bridge on line with cats.

At any one time I could be playing with 8K+ people around the world. Best partners are currently from ME, PA and CA.

Deets and Woodrow

SaaB Rally in Canaan, NH

Jan 14, 2016
John and I went to Canaan NH and watched a car rally on a cold winter day. The track was frozen but the participants had fun driving around on the icy track. Of particular interest at the rally was Graham Cullen and his Saab 96. Here is a link to all the pictures and videos taken that day Flikr album: Saab

Graham Cullen and me
Saab 96

Graham is the reason that we now have a Saab 95 wagon. Long story. Here is the trailer we bought to tow around the 2 CV (never  happened) which I sold to Graham. He fixed it up and now uses it to tow his Saab to rallies.

We expect to see him race at the New England Forest rally in this July in the Rangely, ME area. We went last year. This great fun. We like rally people very much.

Pellet Delivery

Maine Energy Systems is providing the pellets for the first delivery. We will most likely change to a Vermont company that is gearing up a pellet production in Gilman, NH, just over the river from VT, for 2017.

INCENTIVE NO 4.     Pellets are good for the local forest economy. With mills closing down in NH and ME, and global forest products flooding the markets, pellets are good for the local and regional wood industry  which needs a place to sell its soft wood and pulp woods.  It's win-win.
Here comes the truck! It's yuuuuuge.

like a milk truck, only different

just over 3 tons of pellets in a bag

Progress with the Pellet boiler

In with the new...

 The pellet boiler is very amazing. It is Austrian, Okofen, and is compact, fitting perfectly where the wood boiler was.  Here is a link to see the system we have (if you care ). Okofen wood-pellet-boiler

in position

small and compact

storage bag before pellets, hose to the boiler

Hoses will bring the pellets into the burner box from a huge storage bag.

new smoke stack

Craig's list works

John is helping a guy from NY load and remove our wood boiler. Tah tah!!!  He was so glad to have it and we were, well......smiling for sure.

Why Pellet Boiler....

 INCENTIVE NO. 2
Heating with a wood boiler requires a lot of work! period. Stacking the wood (which was just finished) takes place over the entire summer, bit by bit. All John's work when we could be boating, it seems that there is a pile of wood lying around everyday, just taunting him to stack it. Done, gone, over. The three cords were sold easily to the workers on the project.

not hard to get rid of the wood

the daily routing

INCENTIVE NO 3 

Cleaning the wood boiler, several times throughout the winter, is not fun. John has complained about that a lot and so.....done, gone, over.  The pellet boiler has this sissy little ash box that maybe has to be cleaned out every month or so, but dumping a fine white powder into a container. Good for the  compost, too.