Slick sees me in the window! :-D
Month: January 2019
Critter of the Day: let me sing for you
Wait… what?
Today, I sent in our meter reading. Now that it’s been over a year since we’ve had the electricity switched over to our name, we currently have a full 12 months of billing history, beginning in December of 2017. Keeping in mind that our scheduled meter readings are taken around the 13th of every month (it’s not the same for everyone), with the new bill coming in around the 20th of the month, this means that a bill for December covers our usage from the middle of November, to the middle of December. Also, electricity is our only source of energy, including for heating. There’s no oil or natural gas or anything else like that.
Our first bill in December of 2017 had an energy consumption of 4797 kW.h.
Our December of 2018 bill had an energy consumption of 4799 kW.h
A difference of only 2.
The difference in the cost of electricity?
2017 cost us $434.40
2018 came to $452.14
Those 2 extra kW.h cost $17.74
I don’t recall any notification about the cost per kW.h going up, in the past year.
It’s a good thing we’re on the equal payment plan. :-/
The Re-Farmer
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Winter “fun”
You know, I’m really looking forward to being able to just pop outside at a whim. Although temperatures have become relatively mild lately (we’re at -7C right now, with a wind chill of -12C), when you have to spend several minutes just to bundle up in layers and heave on the snow boots, going in tends to involve more planning for efficiency. ;-D
Yesterday was not particularly efficient.
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Critter of the Day: don’t mind me…
Critter of the Day: what’s that over there?
I’ve gone through a new batch of photos of critters at the feeding station outside our living room window, that I will be posting from over the next while.
I got a lot of pictures of these beauties, this time!
Checking out those strange humans moving around back there. :-D
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Critter of the Day: Intensity
[Edit: any WordPress familiar people know why the title is showing up blank, while the title is at the bottom of the post, instead? Everything is where it’s supposed to be, while in edit mode.]
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Huuurrrrhhhh…
So, things have been a bit quiet here at The Re-Farmer.
There is a reason for that.
A cold has slowly been working its way through all of us. Even my husband is starting to get it, despite our efforts to keep it away from him.
Sick or not, stuff still needs to get done. Today, that included a trip into town.
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Critter of the Day: A Trio
These three don’t come around as often as the duo, but often enough to be regulars! :-)
The Re-Farmer 