The dominos begin to fall

I have been working on "greenifying" our house and a huge component to that is the heating system. Currently, we have a crappy old oil-burning boiler which runs in the low 70's efficiency. We both hate oil and everything this country does in the world and to the world to obtain it. I don't plan on getting up on a soap box here, so I won't. I'll just say we are replacing that old thing and in the process, getting solar panels and a new water heater and a new heating system. We're going with propane to heat the house, which is a byproduct of refining oil and therefore a little hypocritical of us, but it is the cleanest option that is within our price range for our climate. We don't even have natural gas in our road, which stinks because it is cleaner burning than propane. Anyway, all of these major changes are in the works, meanwhile the oil tank is almost empty and the temperature outside is dropping. Ok not really, it was 85 a couple days ago which is just plain unnatural for October in Connecticut. Regardless, things need to happen and they are all intertwined and let's just say the first of many dominos has bumped into the next and at some point in the hopefully not too far off future, our yard will be transformed, we won't be paying CL&P for electricity anymore, we will be burning less fuel to heat our house, will be heating our shower water with the electricity we are producing, and our boiler will never turn on during the day when we are not even home in the middle of the summer. I love that.