Take That, Petro!!

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The dreaded big blue truck just pulled up and gave us our last oil fill. We haven't used the boiler since May (thank GOD for this nice, warm October). I ran out in my bare feet to tell the driver that the tank should be very full. For some reason, they have no method of figuring out how full the tank is...they just fill it until they see it coming up the fill pipe. That's why I wanted to tell him, so he wouldn't get sprayed. I'm nice that way.

Besides, I didn't want him wasting an iota of fuel oil.

Fuel oil all last winter = $100,521 (OK, I tend to exaggerate)
Fuel oil for our last fill = $19
The feeling of being DONE heating this place = priceless

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Anonymous said…
Mrs.D-4
Good luck on your move.Your blogs are so enjoyable, beats those political op-eds in Time and Newsweek. I find the daily activities of Josiah and Annika (and their Mommy) much more enjoyable than the latest words of wisdom from either George W, Hillary or Obama. And only one more year to go until national elections, joy.I know you are looking forward to the trials and tribulations of raising teenagers (we can't wait for those blogs...)By the by, San Diego on fire, what a news event. When I lived there (in the eighties before you were born)I remember one night slumming it at Mt. Soledad like a tourist and seeing four separate fires burning in a seven mile radius.It is something seeing flames 60 LF high consume an entire hillside. Makes that over-priced real estate really worth it.Kim and the kids say Howdy. The kids still remember the cute blonde-headed girl at Glen and Dees picnic swinging with them in the hammock telling them she will never have children. Yea, right, look at you now. I predict a third D-4 by 2009. Oops, is that another stained blouse???

Jerry Craig
October 26, 2007 at 11:10:00 AM GMT+2
MamaD4 said…
To a Casual User (and abuser): Wow, Howard you have the dubious honor of being the person who has left the longest comment EVER on my blog. Did I really say that I would never have children? It was probably at that juncture of my life where I was in love with three different men, one of whom was a roofer that worked for us (ahem) and I probably was just trying to tempt fate by saying that.

I still have friends in San Diego who had to evacuate from the Rancho Bernardo area, but believe me I am thanking GOD that we don't own property there anymore. I was there during the fires in October 2003...it was not fun.

Hopefully I will still have the time and energy to blog when my kids are teenagers!
October 26, 2007 at 2:19:00 PM GMT+2
MamaD4 said…
By the way, HC, I was born in 1974. And no, I don't want to know what you were doing that year :)
October 26, 2007 at 7:18:00 PM GMT+2
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