It's that time of year again and I had some random wood stove thoughts.
One- every time I light a fire, I try to use only one match. I pretend it's the end of the world, and if the fire doesn't light, I will die like the character in Jack London's book.
Two- I still haven't owned a house with a good fireplace yet, but I have had two houses with decent wood stoves. What they lack in romanticism, they make up for in practicality. My current wood stove is in the basement, and I rerouted the HVAC intakes to suck air directly from that room, so all the hot air circulates evenly through the house just using the HVAC fan. As I was playing Jack London downstairs tonight, and it is dropping past 20 degrees outside, my wife informed me she had turned the heater off and it hadn't kicked in all season, so this little wood stove with three or four logs is pretty much heating the whole house!
Three- I'm fortunate to have a lot of dead locust on the property, which is dense with a lot of BTU's and generally thin enough, that it doesn't need splitting.
So as the temps drop tonight, I am posting in deep thoughts of nice warm fires! (Although I can't see it because it's in a stove!
) How about you guys, what are your setups?
