L.P. is how much?

Greetings,

Today is Monday and it is wash day. You know, like in laundry. When it is nice out I hang my clothes on the clothesline or I have my spouse do it if the rotator cuff is acting up.

We use L.P. gas to heat our house, water, dryer and cook. For those of you who have a municipal utility that you get your gas from probably do not know about L.P. You may have a gas grill with a small white canister that you have filled now and then at your local Mega Mart. If you have ever watched King of the Hill then you know what L.P. is. Good old boy Hank Hill sells propane for Strickland Propane in the make believe town of Arlan TX. I digress.

We live in the country and have a driveway, we call it a lane, that is close to a quarter mile long. To pay the local utility to run the gas line up here would cost a bunch. So far we have continued to use L.P. like the people before us did. I don't really trust the gas utility company. We called once about a gas leak at the corner pumping station and they put us on hold, for 45 minutes. This half of the county could have blown up while I am listening to bad elevator music on hold.

Unlike the backyard grill our propane tank holds 500 gallons of L.P. You can purchase it by the gallon on a monthly basis at the going rate per gallon. Like regular gasoline. And like regular gas the price fluctuates. When we moved here 12 years ago we paid .699 cents a gallon. At that time we did not know about Pre-Buy.
That is a system which your gas company, AKA Co-Op sells you X amount of L.P., you decide and tell them, at a fixed price. You have to decide how much you might use in the space of six months. Basically from October to March. It is kind of like futures in the stock market. I have gotten pretty good at knowing how much gas we will use in that time.


This year I got my letter/contract from the Co-Op and the price for L.P. this year is, $2.389 per gallon and I ordered 975 gallons. You do the math. This is where the scream comes in. We do get a discount of .039 cent per gallon because we own our own tank, but still. Imagine paying your whole years worth of gas utility at one time. And I didn't even get kissed!

When wash day comes around I hang my clothes outside on the line and let the sun dry them, no charge. I do not have a problem getting them hung out, my problem is getting them back in. When I remember the clothes, it is night and I hate mosquitoes. I just leave them out until the next day. Hey unless you have some kind of pantie stealing pervert in your neighborhood it really is not a big deal. I will say though the first time I see a big dear crossing the yard with a pair of my panties on it's head I will change my laundry hanging habits, or perhaps bite the bullet and put the undies in the dryer.

Tomorrow I will continue my laundry story. Old school vs. young laundry doers, and do you know what a wringer washer is or Fells Naphtha soap?

This one day has taken a long time and tomorrow is another day.

Later.