If you haven't had your system cleaned and tuned in a year - now's the time to make an appointment to do so. Your system will run more efficiently and you'll have the peace of mind knowing that, more than likely, you'll have heat all winter long. 

To schedule an appointment say Hello, Aiello at 1.888.479.3420

According to Wikipedia... Halloween has an interesting history.

Historian Nicholas Rogers, exploring the origins of Halloween, notes that while "some folklorists have detected its origins in the Roman feast of Pomona, the goddess of fruits and seeds, or in the festival of the dead called Parentalia, it is more typically linked to the Celtic festival of Samhain, when it was believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth. The name of the festival historically kept by the Gaels in the British Isles is derived from Old Irish and means roughly "summer's end".

Trick-or-treating is a customary celebration for children on Halloween.

Children go in costume from house to house, asking for treats such as candy or sometimes money, with the question, "Trick or treat?"

The word "trick" refers to a (mostly idle) "threat" to perform mischief on the homeowners or their property if no treat is given. In some parts of Scotland children still go guising. In this custom the child performs some sort of trick, i.e. sings a song or tells a ghost story, to earn their treats.

The practice of dressing up in costumes and begging door to door for treats on holidays dates back to the Middle Ages and includes Christmas wassailing. Trick-or-treating resembles the late medieval practice of souling, when poor folk would go door to door on Hallowmas (November 1), receiving food in return for prayers for the dead on All Souls' Day (November 2). It originated in Ireland and Britain, although similar practices for the souls of the dead were found as far south as Italy. Shakespeare mentions the practice in his comedy The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1593), when Speed accuses his master of "puling [whimpering or whining] like a beggar at Hallowmas." 

In Scotland and Ireland, Guising - children disguised in costume going from door to door for food or coins - is a traditional Halloween custom, and is recorded in Scotland at Halloween in 1895 where masqueraders in disguise carrying lanterns made out of scooped out turnips, visit homes to be rewarded with cakes, fruit and money. The practice of Guising at Halloween in North America is first recorded in 1911, where a newspaper in Kingston, Ontario reported children going "guising" around the neighborhood. 

Here's a surprise, because of the rigid Protestant belief systems that characterized early New England, the celebration of Halloween in colonial times was extremely limited here! Trick-or-treating does not seem to have become a widespread practice until the 1930s, with the first U.S. appearances of the term in 1934, and the first use in a national publication occurring in 1939.

Other interesting features on Halloween can be found at www.history.com/topics/halloween

BOO!

"October's poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter."  

     Nova Bair

Fall Movies

There is a lot to be excited for this coming fall/winter at your local multiplex.Ryan Gosling is currently tearing up theaters in the neo-noir thrillerDrive, Steven Soderbergh's virus thriller Contagion is still floating around, and the wonderful but poignant "cancer-comedy" 50/50 opened last week. During October, look out for George Clooney's political drama The Ides of March, the Justin Timberlake sci-fi thriller In Time, and updates on Footloose and The Thing.

November brings the visually audacious looking Greek Gods epic Immortals, a new Muppet Movie at Thanksgiving, Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar with Leo DiCaprio, and David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method with Viggo Mortensen & Keira Knightley.

Then in December, it's a mix of blockbusters and Oscar-bait: Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Descendants, The Artist, Young Adult, War Horse, The Sitter, and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.
Like we said -- lots to be excited about!

SAVE $1500* on Energy Kinetics System 2000 Integrated Boiler & Hot Water System. 

Do the Math!

System 2000, from Energy Kinetics, is the first fully integrated heat and hot water system. It runs a Hybrid Energy Recovery cycle that puts nearly every ounce of heat left in the boiler to work for you.

The key is a unique Digital Energy Management unit. The super high efficiency System 2000 works with oil, natural gas or propane. No matter what size house or condo you own there is a System 2000 unit that's perfect for you. And now, til Oct. 31, you can save $1500 of the retail price of a new system.

System 2000

•  Cuts your fuel bill by up to 40% - Read example below
• Provides virtually unlimited hot water 
• If your boiler's making hot water - you start saving today!
•  Proven more efficient than 95% AFUE Systems
•  Is perfect for homes with multiple baths, spas, pools
•  Is whisper quiet
• Aiello can install in one day

 Save up to 40% on your oil bill and $1500 off a new System 2000 

 call Aiello today.1.888.479.3420

*Based on average home oil use of 1,000 gallons, with fuel at $3.75 per gallon fuel cost is $3,750. System 2000 estimated savings of 40%, equates to fuel savings of $1,500 per year. If savings are only 20% you'd still save .70c per gallon or an average of $700 a year. ** $1,500 off retail price of System 2000. Must be purchased by October 31, 2011. See Aiello Representative for complete program details and limitations.

• 1/2 lb bacon diced
• 4lbs beef chuck, trimmed of fat, cut into 1/2" cubes
• 6 medium yellow onions, chopped
• 12 cloves garlic, finely diced
• 2 bell peppers ( 1 green, 1 red) seeded and chopped
• 6 fresh jalapeno peppers, seeded and chopped
• 2 tsp of salt
• 8 tablespoons of chili powder
• 1 tablespoon of oregano
• 2 cans ( 28 oz. each) tomatoes, mashed
• 15 oz. can of tomato sauce
• bottle of dark beer
• 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
• 2 bay leaves
• tabasco
• 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper

For Serving:

• cilantro - chopped
• cheese
• sour creme
• green scallions

Directions: 

Cook bacon in frying pan, remove when crisp. Remove all but 2  

tablespoons of fat. Brown the meat in the same pan, add olive oil as

necessary, cook in batches as to not crowd the pan. 

Remove meat when brown on all sides. 

In a large pan add 2 tablespoons of olive oil,saute onions till brown (5-7mins) add garlic, saute (1 min) add all  peppers saute til soft(8-12 mins)

Add all spices and saute (2 mins). Add tomatoes, tomato sauce and  

beer. Stir.

Bring to a boil - then simmer for 20 mins.

Add the meat and cooked bacon, simmer- uncovered - for 1.5 hours,  

until sauce thickens.Taste for desired heat.

Kick up with Tabasco, crushed red pepper flakes or ancho chili powder

if desired. Garnish with chopped scallions, cilantro, sour cream and/or grated  cheddar.

This is true Stevie "3-Cards" Texas Chili. If you MUST have beans -  

add kidney or black beans when you add meat and bacon.

So here's the offer. Send us your chilli recipe - we'll try 'em and one recipe will win a $25 Target Gift Card!

WDRC-AM - the Talk of Connecticut has hooked us up with 4 tickets to the Bobby Vinton Show. The date is Saturday night, November 12 at 9pm at the Palace in Waterbury.

If you loved "Blue Velvet," "Roses are Red," "Tell Me Why," and twenty other huge hits of one of the most respected and beloved singers of the last 30 years - 

this is your chance to see him FREE.
Bobby Vinton tickets - enter here! 

Excuse us while we take a bow.

Aiello Home Services has again been selected to receive Lennox's highest honor -The Centurion Award.It is given to the top 2% of all HVAC dealers and contractors in the country and Aiello has been a recipient for the past five years.

The Centurion Award is predicated on exemplary customer satisfaction ratings for which Aiello has consistently sustained high grades. What it means is that you can depend on Aiello - and Lennox - to deliver dependable service and quality products.

There once, recently, was a bus.
A Hartford Public Library Book Mobile bus. It was an incredible resource to thousands of people in Hartford who didn't have a local library branch, or who simply couldn't get to the nearest branch because of physical limitations. So the library came to children and seniors and the handicapped and then...it stopped.

The bus was old and needed to be retired. 

The Hartford Public Library is working to purchase a new Book Mobile and Aiello Home Services is proud to provide its September Make A Difference grant to the library.We hope that it will inspire others to give so that we can get the new bus rolling in 2012! If you'd like to donate visit their special link here.

Please, we encourage you to nominate your favorite non-profit organization for a $1,000 Make A Difference donation.
Click here to do so.