my electricity usage

So I started at Mother Earth News and the article "Where does your electricity come from?"

Then I clicked on nifty feature to go to the EPA website.

I crunched data from my bills at the electric company to find these figures.

Now I need to work on reducing all these numbers! Interestingly, the site indicated that I use about half the electricity of an average household....

Read Date (Click to View Bill)	Usage (kWh)	Number of Days	Usage Per Day	Charge	Read Type	Average Temp (°F)
12/03/2008	457	35	13.06	$65.09	00	38.3	12/3/2008 12:00:00 AM
10/29/2008	714	30	23.80	$101.72	00	48.4	10/29/2008 12:00:00 AM
09/29/2008	1025	31	33.06	$150.80	00	62.5	9/29/2008 12:00:00 AM
08/29/2008	785	29	27.07	$116.79	00	66.9	8/29/2008 12:00:00 AM
07/31/2008	863	31	27.84	$127.48	00	72.4	7/31/2008 12:00:00 AM
06/30/2008	735	31	23.71	$100.15	00	67.4	6/30/2008 12:00:00 AM
05/30/2008	401	30	13.37	$57.15	00	54	5/30/2008 12:00:00 AM
04/30/2008	408	30	13.60	$58.06	00	47.8	4/30/2008 12:00:00 AM
03/31/2008	439	27	16.26	$62.04	00	33.3	3/31/2008 12:00:00 AM
03/04/2008	617	34	18.15	$84.96	00	25.3	3/4/2008 12:00:00 AM
01/30/2008	506	28	18.07	$70.67	00	24.2	1/30/2008 12:00:00 AM
01/02/2008	682	30	22.73	$90.59	00	26.2	1/2/2008 12:00:00 AM
12/03/2007	659	33	19.97	$87.63	00	35.8	12/3/2007 12:00:00 AM
10/31/2007	732	28	26.14	$96.73	00	55.2	10/31/2007 12:00:00 AM
10/03/2007	793	28	28.32	$104.32	00	62.4	10/3/2007 12:00:00 AM
09/05/2007	1162	33	35.21	$150.29	00	67.7	9/5/2007 12:00:00 AM
08/03/2007	1255	35	35.86	$162.80	00	71.2	8/3/2007 12:00:00 AM
06/29/2007	841	28	30.04	$121.14	00	66.4	6/29/2007 12:00:00 AM

YOUR ANNUAL EMISSIONS
What Are My Annual Emissions? This is an estimate of the pounds of air pollutants caused by the electricity you use in your home or business during one year.	7 pounds of nitrogen oxides 19 pounds of sulfur dioxide 6,732 pounds of carbon dioxide

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!

Blue for Brrrrrrrr!

It started snowing here about 1 PM on Friday, and has finally stopped. We've had somewhere between 10 1/2 and 12" of snow, depending on where in my yard I measure. We haven't been out the driveway since 2 PM on Friday, though lots of fun has been had in the back yard. And, of course, the rabbits needed feeding and watering! The children were off from school on Friday and are hoping to be off tomorrow, but I think the crews will have enough time overnight to get the roads passable. Thank goodness I have a very good snowblower; I would NOT want to shovel this.