And so have begun the mornings on the Farmstead here, when the first activity of the morning is to start a fire in the furnace. For anyone that doesn’t already know, we heat the house almost exclusively on wood. We have a wood burning furnace that has an oil burner back up in case we need to be away for a day or two (which hasn’t happened within the reach of my memory).  It takes a lot of work to harvest and split all the wood it takes, and to build and tend the fires, but it’s worth it to be able to be warm and cozy for less that $300 per year when you figure in the cost of the little oil we use and the gas and oil for the machinery we need to get the wood. We estimate that to heat the square footage we have, we would spend somewhere in the range of $4000-$5000 per year on oil. What would you do with that kind of saving? And would you rather put the time and energy into your job to make that money and have the convenience of gas or oil heat, or put the time and energy into wood fuel and be able to be home?