You didn’t do anything. The AI stole art off the internet and made this prompt that you typed in 👌

They aren’t super old, most of them are double pane but there are tons of them, plus French doors and big windows. I think there is little to no insulation in most of the house too. It’s a long sprawling house that’s been added onto like a lot of New England and just loads of heat loss.

Besides ice fishing, my father used to hunt rabbit on snowshoe with his trained beagle dog. Family tradition passed down generations. He got a few deer, but we always had lots of rabbit! I’m an only daughter so, I’m sad to not carry this on.

Mind sharing your heat pump and solar setups? How cold does it usually get at night where you are? Any battery to help with the long nights?

$0 is very impressive in the northern hemisphere with no backup heat source, based on my knowledge. Sounds like you're living with the setup I want!

I have baseboard water heating running on propane as well. At 65 downstairs, 63 upstairs, I'm running around $150-200/mo so far this year on average for the propane. So your price doesn't sound totally crazy. Around 2000sf as well.

My house is relatively well insulated (redone in the last decade), albeit with lots of windows and old bones. If you own, consider improving your windows and insulation -- at $500+/mo, I suspect the improvements will pay for themselves quite quickly.

As I always tell my wife, my time is worthless 😁 you are correct though, it did take time but I look at it more as I'm paying myself, rather than paying the oil company or electric company.

I've been burning red oak, it breaks down to about 178 gallons of heating fuel per cord. I can buck, split and stack a cord in ~2 hours. At $4.62/gallon, I'm 'paying' myself ~$420/hour (lest the fuel/consumables for the saw and splitter), significantly more than I make at my day job.

Burlington won't be a problem. Going to more remote areas could be, but unlikely.

It works if he has a woodchuck accent. 🤔

Ah, one would have to build a big coop with heating lamps, or have a nice indoor area. Maybe. I know way more about duck rearing than chickens. They Malays sort of remind me of runner ducks.

You're awesome though, thank you!!!

I can see judging by your first piece of text, you know very little about trapping laws. They are required to check every 24 hours and often do so more frequently, so it would not be days. I am happy to explain to you why conservation is important and why trapping, hunting and fishing isn’t cruel when done properly, if you’re willing to have an open mind about it.

Well not free, your time is worth something. But I'm jealous, wish I had a wood stove or furnace

The new vermonter maybe. Definitely not an original vermonter

Yeesh. Do you have old, drafty windows? Our houses sound almost identical (1823 here). Replaced every window in our house and saw our oil bill drop ~40%. Still thinking of spray-foaming our dingy old basement for some added help, but the windows alone were a huge savings, especially last year when oil was over $6/gallon.

I've only liver here for a little over 5 years, but I don't think I've ever seen anyone with beads in their hair.

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$1200.00 for 200 gal.of fuel oil and being on social security don't give me a hole lot money to live on

I own a few shirts very similar to that one.

Florida Man’s cousin.

Name should be Aiman. That is all.

Lamoille and Washington County Mental Health are always in need of good folks. Even if you don’t have a clinical background there may be something that’s a good fit for you, in a field where staff are critically needed.

Good luck!

Couldn't help it. Was way too easy.

Excellent dad joke!

Propane, $300ish, 1100 sq ft, temp kept around 61. Last fill was 2 months prior, so it’s probably more like 150+/mo