DougRNS

Fear not! The Mighty Owl nation will warmly accept a refugee from that failed program. We won't judge, it is a large welcoming tent. Plus Vegan hot dogs.

gnome

wrong island or ireland.. nope we left Gondwana before long snakes arrived in Australia or South America.

Velo Vol 

seedsbelize 

I had that same truck, in orange. I bought it from my uncle's estate.
I did not have a Gunnar.
Now that I think about it, I don't know what became of that truck.
One more lost item from the most recent concussion.

Velo Vol 

Post a video of the KSU band and I will assess if it is Velo Vol worthy.

Velo Vol 

Posting this now for no particular reason.

big john

A hot mess in a dumpster fire in a train wreck..Jake Tapper

datlas 

Rain is gone. Ride is on!

Trsnrtr

It must be winter. My annual furnace check up is today.

Trsnrtr

Winds are supposed to gust to 35 mph today. I'll have to go haunt the local trail to stay off the prairie.

MoAlpha

Reminds me, I have to schedule mine, now that it's cool enough that I could stand to have them test it.

WhyFi

Strong, steady winds and the threat of rain. Hopefully I'll get in at least a little ride later. In the meantime, I'm checking out local LBS bike shop deals for cool/cold weather riding; not too long until I'll be wanting some new arm warmers and then new lobsters, etc.

seedsbelize 

Coal furnace as a uteful ute in the fifties. Electric radiant heat in the modern era of the sixties and wood heat thereafter. What fuel do said furnaces burn? Natural gas? Propane?

Trsnrtr

I just went outside for a sec and found there was a light drizzle. Might end up a day off unless the urge to ride on a damp, cold, windy day fills my spirit to get out.

big john

It got down to 78 last night, supposed to go back up to 103. It's surreal reading about furnaces and winter clothes. It seems so far away from reality.

seedsbelize 

A ride was scheduled for this morning, but slept til 7. By the time the tea was drunk and the waking up done, it became too late to go. Biding my time for those long, cool days. We can taste them now

MoAlpha

We had steam heat and a coal furnace in the ancestral country house with an electrical automatic stoker and ash handling system. It was a real mechanical wonder with a screw drive to move the material and a rotating platter where the fresh coal came up in the middle and the ash was pushed off the edge.

In our current house, we have a very small NG-fired boiler which heats a hot water system (very good).

In the interim, I've owned NG/steam (great), NG/forced air (so-so), and heat pump (horrible, requiring wood stove).

big john

Is that the most efficient way? How does the system actually heat the house, do hot pipes exist in the walls? Does it also provide hot water for showers, etc?

WhyFi

Natural gas is far and away the most popular fuel for heating in my area. In NYC, there was still a lot of home heating oil; moving there, it was weird to see the trucks and their fat fuel lines making the rounds.

WhyFi

Radiant floors are becoming more popular - I would love them. Otherwise, some houses still use the old cast iron radiators or the baseboard radiators that I hated as a yute.

Edited to add: this is for heating with hot water, of course; I would think that forced air is more common.

big john

When I was in the mountains we had a forced-air propane furnace and a heat-a-lator fireplace. People said pellet stoves were the cheapest way to heat a house then but I never got one. My neighbor had a 3 story house with a wood fireplace on the bottom which had a huge duct plumbed into the second floor which then had a large catalytic converter exposed to the main room. That thing gave off a lot of heat.

Trsnrtr

Coal was the primary fuel in Central Illinois because there was a large coal industry here until the 60s. I remember the snow would become sooty a day or two after a fresh snowfall. Looking back on it, it’s obvious how much pollution was happening.

Primarily natural gas, now.

WhyFi

Ugh, that's gross. I used to hate bartending back in the day when people could smoke inside. It's funny how bad stuff was normalized because, well, it was the way it was.

indyfabz

We had cast iron radiators growing up in Philly. During cold nights my mom would get up early to raise the thermostat then go back to bed while the house heated up. Had them in my first two apartments as well.

big john

I used to hate smoking in restaurants when I was a smoker. I remember going to see music at small clubs and the performers would ask patrons to cool it with the cigarettes because they couldn't stand it.