House Warming

We had a very busy weekend starting with the cleaning of our extremely rusty well and replacement of the pump. (sorry, there are no photos of this procedure as I was working at the Art Show. I heard that it was very interesting but no one here thought to take pictures.)  This was the Hometown  Holidays weekend in town there was much scheduled that we did not get to attend.  B took P to see the local performance of the Nutcracker while I was manning my booth at Art Show on Saturday. Sunday, the boys had two performances with the local Chamber Music group.
We also had our winter supply of home heating fuel delivered.
We heat our home with corn grown on the neighbors farm. We have a boiler designed to burn pellet fuel and mix store bought wood pellets with the corn to help it burn a little better.

The corn is stored in the old cistern (used to store water many years ago) in the basement.  We fill the cistern through the basement window.  B put an auger in the cistern that will fill the hopper on the boiler with the flick of a light switch.  We fill the hopper every morning and twice a day when it is very cold.

A piece of old metal roofing forms the chute for the corn to get through the window.

I always find the delivery process interesting.