{"id":3079,"date":"2012-10-29T18:21:37","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T23:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=3079"},"modified":"2012-10-29T18:24:34","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T23:24:34","slug":"our-little-heater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=3079","title":{"rendered":"Our little heater"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Today’s run: 3.4 miles\u00a0 tapering down toward 1\/2 marathon this Saturday]<\/p>\n

We live in Mississippi, closer to Tennessee than to the Gulf of Mexico.\u00a0 It does sometimes get a bit cold here in the winter.\u00a0 This morning it was in the mid 30s and tonight it is supposed to get down near freezing.\u00a0 A couple of years ago we had snow flurries on Christmas.<\/p>\n

But the weather in general is much warmer than the various places I have lived in the past.\u00a0 Our house is constructed with the climate in mind.\u00a0 The roof would not hold up a 2′ snow.<\/p>\n

We have central air.\u00a0 And we have a “toaster” type heating element in that air\/furnace unit which will send warm air through the duct work.\u00a0 But it is electric and kind of expensive to run.<\/p>\n

So most of our space heating comes from this little fake fireplace in the living room.\u00a0 It uses propane gas.\u00a0 We got our propane tank topped up about a month ago.\u00a0 So far we have never used a whole tank of propane in the course of a single winter.\u00a0 I think last year we used about 70% of the tank.<\/p>\n

We generally keep the thermostat of the fake fireplace at about 68 degrees.\u00a0 I’ll set the electric furnace\/toaster to maybe 65.\u00a0 That way we won’t have frozen pipes if either the pilot light goes out or the electricity goes out. We use our ceiling fans to move the hot air around the house.<\/p>\n

I enjoy wearing long sleeves and taking hot baths and other aspects of winter life.\u00a0 I wish it weren’t dark.\u00a0 But otherwise I enjoy winter in Mississippi over summer by far.<\/p>\n

This thing is in the living room.\u00a0 The builders put some cabinet work around it, but it really is just about 6 inches in depth and is a drop-in unit, nothing fancy at all. (In the picture I’ve\u00a0 removed one of the wood trim pieces to fiddle with the thermostat knob.)<\/p>\n

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[Today’s run: 3.4 miles\u00a0 tapering down toward 1\/2 marathon this Saturday] We live in Mississippi, closer to Tennessee than to the Gulf of Mexico.\u00a0 It does sometimes get a bit cold here in the winter.\u00a0 This morning it was in the mid 30s and tonight it is supposed to get down near freezing.\u00a0 A couple […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mississippi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3079"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3082,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3079\/revisions\/3082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}