Good productive exercise. Better than hanging out in a pool hall getting into trouble. Our North AL/South TN winter is similar. One Christmas Eve, we had a big family gathering and I WAS GONNA HAVE a GLORIOUS FIRE! I did but the outside temp got to 65* and had to turn on AC to beat the stove back.
I love smelling fresh cut wood too! I brought a piece inside for my wife to smell and she just looked at me. She doesn't get it.
It's a wild world we are living in now. People are out of control. Business is good for my profession!
My wife came out of the house today while I was dropping off another tree. She told me I have a problem.
Actually there is a guy across the street from our neighborhood that has the market cornered around here. He must have a deal with local tree companies because he has two large mountains of firewood and processes it all year. I'm not ahead enough to start selling.
Well spoken. It's so nice to get away from all of the noise and devices and closer to God and nature.
I told her how nice the wood is and asked her if she has ever backed up in front of a semi. Laughing tears emoji
I heard a good reason to horde and burn wood today. Natural gas prices are up 180% in the past year and home heating oil may double or triple this winter. Glad we got our summer fill back in the spring. Haven't heard how propane will fair but my guess is it won't be cheap.
Deep down in our primitive DNA, coded in some long-forgotten double helix strand, lies a set of caveman traits that have never gone away. Protect family, make fire, gather food, cook meat, make children. Hoarding wood is in there somewhere. We all have it, it just takes a while for it to awaken in some people. Hoard on my friend.
I think that answer is far more correct than many realize. The "satisfaction factor" cannot be understood or underestimated.
We had our fuel oil tank refilled last fall. First time in four years. It's only used for heat when we can't put wood into the stove. Hot water and stove cook top is propane. That's why I hoard wood.
I agree fully. Very deep seated desire to cut and haul. Maybe its one way we answer the desire to store up for the coming season. Weather its coldness, or a financial or political season. We got so sick of big oil, we took apart the oil burner and scrapped most of it. While its practical to have the Jotul in the kitchen where the chimney is, where the cooking happens, where all the plumbing is.....it would have been nice to have it in the living room where we could look at the flames. That, is another deep rooted aspect of fire. Sca
No problem. You just need another stove in your living room for proper ambiance/flame watching etc. You can do this
