Breakthrough

Tuesday, 4:40 pm

By Kate

Jan

15

2008

I slogged through the snow drifts to read the natural gas meter this afternoon. All I can say is...it was worth getting a load of snow down the back of my shirt!

Since Saturday night, we have used slightly less than 1 CCF of gas. That’s three days of use. Which means, supposedly, if I multiply .85 CCF by 2.33, I should get a reasonable estimate of what I’ll use for the entire week.

That would be....drum roll....1.98 CCF!!!

Could it be? Is it possible? I finally found the gas eating culprit? The furnace pilot light? And all this time I’ve been blaming the hot water heater.

I’m so excited, I can hardly wait until Thursday to get the final week’s tally.