The nights are getting cold, and the days are not all that warm. But we're not ready to turn on the heat yet. To save money this winter, we are postponing turning on any heat until the First of November.
Of course, this is made easier by the fact that we haven't bought our propane for the season, and that only one of our three heaters has been installed (and it's slated to be moved). All of that will come on time for that wonderous day after Halloween when we can say "crank up the heat."
We won't need to crank it up too far; this house is far better insulated than the old one, and we are not inclined to keep the inside of our home as swelteringly hot as are some of our New England neighbors. Which is odd, when you think about it, coming to New Hampshire as we did from the land of perpetually mild weather, Los Angeles. Maybe we've just adapted to Karen's childhood, during which she lived in a 1920s WPA house in New Jersey, not the cheapest place to heat.
Not that even our new house will be saving us a lot of money this year, with expectations for an especially cold winter, though not as snowy a season as the last. But if we made it through last winter in our drafty modified camp, we can certainly make it through this one in our cozy new house.
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