If you are referring to an electric heater, then I have an small, inexpensive infrared heater. With the biomass stove at the opposite end of the house, the bath can be a bit cool at 5 am. I am pleased with this radiant heater.
HF

www.amazon.com/Optimus-H-5210-Infrared-Q...adiant/dp/B000GG8DWA

Optimus H-5210 Infrared Quartz Radiant Heater ($27.51 shipped)



Portable radiant heater with infrared quartz heating element

Ask lowcostheat or naturesheat - Both are dealers.
HF

www.iburncorn.com/new-forum/my-profile/userid-596

www.iburncorn.com/new-forum/my-profile/userid-313

And you can order parts here:

spaplaceinc.com/products.php?cat=31

Torch oil?
That's a starter that I have not tried,
Thanks to all of you that have shared your thoughts.
HF

I'm still burning the 2006 Dell-Point Europa as the main source of heat in my home. I saw this discussion:
www.iburncorn.com/new-forum/8-general-co...xcorn-a-wood-pellets
Re-lighting this manual start stove with denatured alcohol coated wood pellets light fast and hot. I have always used a half filled pint size canning jar with lid to measure and coat pellets for fire starting. Having tried charcoal lighter and isopropil alcohol, I find that denatured alcohol works best for me. Have any of you had success with other pellet starting flammables? Thanks for your input!
HF

150 a ton - the ad is near the end of the page.
www.ludingtondailynews.com/mobileclassifieds.php?cat_id=14

And St Johns @ 220 a ton
www.micherrypits.com/index.html

CL ad (same as above?)
annarbor.craigslist.org/grd/2746194724.html

HF

Lennon and Oakley are local?
Did you check with MAC?
(handy link) www.michag.com/locations/
HF

Today's price here.

Breckenridge Delivery Cash Basis
Corn May 7.52 -0.20
O/N 11 6.13 -0.60
O/N 12 5.28 -0.70

No corn for me till the price gets around $4.50 a bushel.
HF

openmarkets.cmegroup.com/all/research-do...ing-out-speculators/

May 3rd 2011. It's 46 degrees outside this evening. Has not been much warmer all day. We voted and lighting the stove won in a landslide. Warm is good.
HF

Made a pellet run yesterday.
2 runs, actually.
3 tons then 2 more. And I just may get more.
Did it with a 14 foot landscape trailer, dual axle, 7500 lb. rated with brakes.
$159.00 a ton - cash (check if they know you) (adds $5.00 for credit cards).
The man I bought from said that his price will go up in July.
HF

We shut down the stove- possibly for the year.

HF

>>>>>It's April 2nd and the Dell-Point is still running<<<<<<

April 23rd.
1/2 a ton of fuel left of the 5 we started with.
The stove has been shut down several times, but with the cool temps and wind I guesstimate it has run 90 percent of the time since April 2nd. Shut it down for 2010/11? Maybe next week.
HF

Wisconsin Rules

This list of rules will be handed to each person as they enter the state.

1. That slope-shouldered farm boy you are snickering at did more work before breakfast than you will do all week at the gym. How'd you like to go home and tell your momma you got your butt kicked by a big guy in bib overalls?

2. It's called a "gravel road." No matter how slow you drive, you're going to get dust on your BMW. I have a four wheel drive because I need it. Now drive or get it out of the way.

3. We all started hunting and fishing when we were nine years old. Yeah, we saw Bambi. We got over it.

4. Any references to "corn fed" when talking about our women will get your butt kicked...by our women.

5. Pull your pants up, and turn your hat around so you don't look like an idiot.

6. If that cell phone rings while a bunch of mallards are making their final approach, we will shoot it. You might hope you don't have it up to your ear at the time.

7. No, there's no "Vegetarian Special" on the menu. Order steak. Order it rare. Or, you can order the Chef's Salad and pick off the two pounds of ham and turkey.

8. Yeah, we have sweet tea. It comes in a glass with two packets of sugar and a long spoon.

9. You bring Coke into my house, it better be brown, wet, and served over ice.

10. So you have a sixty thousand dollar car. We're real impressed. We have quarter-million dollar combines that we use two weeks a year.

11. Let's get this straight. We may have one stoplight in town. We stop when it's red. We may even stop when it's yellow.

12. Our women hunt, fish, and drive trucks-because they want to. So, you're a feminist. Isn't that cute.

13. Yeah, we eat catfish, Northern, walleye and turtle too. If you really want sushi and caviar, it's available at the bait shop.

14. They are pigs and cows. That's what they smell like. Get over it. Don't like it? Interstate 90 & Interstate 94 go two ways....get on one of them.

15. The "Opener" refers to the first days of fishing and deer season. They are religious holidays. You can get breakfast at the church.

16. So what if every person in every pick-up waves? It's called being friendly. Understand the concept?

17. Yeah, we have golf courses. Don't hit in the water hazards. It spooks the fish.

What State is the Best?

Four guys are driving cross-country together. One is from Idaho, one from Iowa, one from Illinois, and one from Wisconsin.
A bit down the road, the man from Idaho starts to pull potatoes from his bag and throws them out the window. The man from Iowa turns to him and asks, "What the hell are you doing?"
The man from Idaho says, "Man, we have so many of these dumb things in Idaho they're laying around on the ground - I'm sick of looking at 'em'"
A few miles further down the road, the man from Iowa begins pulling ears of corn from his bag and throwing them out of the window. The man from Wisconsin asks, "What are you doing that for?"
The man from Iowa replies, "Man, we have so man of these darned things in Iowa, I'm sick of looking at them!"
Inspired by the others, the man from Wisconsin opens the car door and pushes out the man from Illinois.

They Walk Among Us and Many Work Retail

I was at the checkout of a K-Mart. The clerk rang up $46.64 charge. I gave her a
fifty dollar bill. She gave me back $46.64. I gave the money back to her and told
her that she had made a mistake in MY favor. She became indignant and informed me
she was Educated and knew what she was doing, and returned the money again. I gave
her the money back .... same scenario! I departed the store with the $46.64.


I walked into a Starbucks with a buy-one-get-one-free coupon for a Grande Latte. I
handed it to the girl and she looked over at a little chalkboard that said 'buy
one-get one free.' 'They're already buy-one-get-one-free,' she said, 'so I guess
they're both free'. She handed me my free Latte's and I walked out the door.


My sister has a lifesaving tool in her car designed to cut through a seat belt if
she gets trapped. She keeps it in the trunk.


One day I was walking down the beach with some friends when one of them shouted,
'Look at that dead bird!'. Someone looked up at the sky and said, 'Where'?


While looking at a house, my brother asked the real estate agent which direction
was north because, he explained, he didn't want the sun waking him up every morning.
She asked, 'Does the sun rise in the north?' When my brother explained that the
sun rises in the east, and has for sometime, she shook her head and said, 'Oh, I
don't keep up with all that stuff.'


I couldn't find my luggage at the airport baggage area, so I went to the lost
luggage office and told the woman there that my bags never showed up. She smiled and
told me not to worry because she was a trained professional and I was in good
hands. 'Now,' she asked me, 'has your plane arrived yet?'


While working at a pizza parlor I observed a man ordering a small pizza to go. He
appeared to be alone and the cook asked him if he would like it cut into 4 pieces or
6. He thought about it for some time before responding. 'Just cut it into 4 pieces;
I don't think I'm hungry enough to eat 6 pieces.'

They Walk Among Us, and they Reproduce!

Finally, a Real Definition of "Political Correctness"

Sometimes you are encouraged about our country's future when you see something like
this.
Specifically, there is an annual contest at Texas A&M University calling for the
most appropriate definition of a contemporary term.
This year's term was:

"Political Correctness."

The winner wrote:

"Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority,
and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the
proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end."

It's April 2nd and the Dell-Point is still running. Just idling, actually, keeping the house at 70 with outdoor temps in the low 40s daytime, below freezing at night. The frost is almost gone. Pothole season in full swing. Folks are still collecting maple sap around here. Robins everywhere. Bluebirds nesting in my birdhouses. Life is good.
HF

The biggest and baddest is stirring:
Late last week, the MEA called on local district unions to vote by April 14 whether to give the state association authority to initiate "crisis activities," up to and including "job action."
www.livingstondaily.com/article/20110320...call-teachers-strike

And today, this:
Legislation that would broaden penalties against illegal schoolteacher strikes is part of an ongoing “direct attack” against Michigan's educators, a representative of the Michigan Education Association said.
mymichiganlaw.com/2011/03/back-to-work-m...-at-teacher-strikes/
HF

The plot thickens.

www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42159906/ns/local_news-detroit_mi/

HF

The United States of Shame (CHART)
came from here:

pleated-jeans.com/2011/01/24/the-united-states-of-shame-chart/

Wash your eyes out with this:

See also a spinoff from Political Language:
The United States of Awesome
Because all states must be good at something.

HF

ilyagerner.tumblr.com/post/2949172565/maps

The Washington Independent is reporting that the new law that allows Michigan's governor Rick Snyder to appointment emergency managers with broad powers to dissolve existing contracts for towns and localities is "already forcing public workers to accept new concessions."

www.dailykos.com/story/2011/03/18/957780...emergency-managerlaw

How does your state look?
HF