Free BTUs

A pile of work awaits us in order to harvest the "free" BTUs from this source, provided by our horrible April snowstorm. It looks more appealing and picturesque than it really is! Free is never totally free, of course - it's only free in terms of cash outlay. We are having to put a lot of energy into harvesting this so-called 'free' energy.

We're so very lucky to have a log splitter available to us from a friend who no longer needs to split wood - something we should be aiming for too.

Still, I can only hear my Mom repeating the proverb "Waste not, want not," as we grew up, instilling in us the value of using resources at our disposal. There are some suggestions that this saying originated from the older 1500s version "Willful waste makes woeful want" Proverb - I am proudly conscious of not wasting resources willfully, but harnessing them whenever I can, no matter the effort needed.