Thank you Len Goodman....
Lord knows I have seen people dancing at the club where they were literally engaged in that horizontal activity ...
We have a ballroom dancing club down the road and we have talked about attending their classes and Saturday Night Socials... then Corona happened and well we are waiting...
BTW - There is an old saying that certain dances done well (like a rumba) are a vertical representation of a normally horizontal activity ;-)
We used to do ballroom dance lessons and really enjoyed it. Covid likely took out a number of dance schools, including the one we went to. Hopefully they recover, but it is a lot of fun and opens up a whole new circle of friends. We haven't done lessons in years, but still keep in touch with some of our dance school friends.
Also, while some will say dance is a good workout, which it is, in most cases it is way more of a mental workout than physical. I can see dance being one of those things that help you stay young in body and mind.
Dancing ... Cajun and Zydeco for me (four hours of it today) ... can't help but have a good time when you are dancing :-)! All your troubles and cares are lifted off your shoulders when you are out on the dance floor :-)!
Sitting on the back deck, watching the Carib waves roll in, a drink in my hand, smoking a cigar, Cuban, and just letting the quite, serenity and the sea mist wash over my face .... Lovely.
Sort of an old "Spring in near" ritual that hasn't happened the last couple of years, we got a Gurneys catalog in the mail today.
Daffodils blooming!
Morning on the deck over looking the lake
Morning on the deck over looking the lake
spending the day with all the kids and granddaughters
florid is a bi persons dedesert
Since moving to Ohio, I find any flirting to absolutely make my day.
It has been so lonely since coming here.
It's pretty simple actually. For most, the biggest factor is going to be cost, assuming availability is not an issue. It will matter more to most if their heating bill is $150/mth vs $250 per month than whether their furnace burner is 67% efficient or 97% efficient or how clean their fuel burns.
mayhem is good people , he and i are cool , we just dont agree on politics . you and i are cool , we just dont agree on politics
Florida, don't let MAYHEM near your 80 year old log cabin in snow country. He will take it and heat his home in N H.
that house was 12 years ago no insulation , lake front avg snowfall 320 inches a year , your right about the cold . its 59 yesterday and were laughing at the locals running around in winter coats . but we probably be doing the same next year .
So that's why you moved to Florida. You didn't like the lace curtain blowing sidewise. Is it worth the charm of the old home? Fifty years ago I paid $0.06 a gallon for heating oil.
try heating oil in a 80 year old log cabin in snow country , northern michigan
HFT - Propane is probably one of the more expensive ways to heat a house, at least in this area.
My house was already set up for oil forced hot water. It's not an inconsequential cost to switch that to propane, and little motivation to do so since it will cost me as much or more to heat my house with propane. The difference in effiencey is offset by the cost. That's the real advantage to natural gas because, at least in this area, it's a lot cheaper than propane.
There is no indoor smoke/fumes from the coal stove. The flue draw makes sure of that.
May, I am talking about the pollution in your home. Go to propane. Clean and efficient.
Cant beat a nice fire, no matter what the fuel source.
HFT - We are all burning fossil fuels of one type or another. It's just varying degrees. If I could get natural gas, then I'd have switched to that long ago. Both wood and coal are way more work than just turning a thermostat up/down.
May, have you thought about the air pollution in your home? How many packs of cigarettes' are you figuratively smocking? I thought about the wood or coal stoves.
We actually have a coal stove. I burned wood for 9 years before I was going to have to start buying it (had enough on my property). When that happened, I switched to coal. It has more BTUs than wood and runs 24/7. It is actually easier and less messy than wood and it would take 2 pellet stoves to equal the heat I get from the one coal stove. I can see why coal was a thing back in the day.
It requires no electricity, so when I lose power I still have heat. I have a geneerator that runs everything in the house, but at night if we have no power, I can turn it off because I don't have to worry about heat and the frig/freezer is fine overnight if you leave the door shut. Had to use the generator once this year already.
Coal actually does produce a flame, and it's a mostly a pretty blue one. If I was burning wood, everyone in my neighborhood would know it from the smoke. When I'm burning coal (anthracite), other than the shimmer of heat coming from the chimney, you'd never even know it. Oil would have to be $1 gal for it to be the same heating costs as coal, and the stove usually produces excess heat. So instead of heating till it's barely comfortable, I usually have doors/windows open to cool things down a bit.
Lately our fireplace has been getting a workout but even if we don't need a fire I like to see stockings hanging from the mantle at Christmas. Never had anywhere to hang them in Florida!
