Another surprise

You're famous! Congrats!

This story sounds familiar. Guessing I read it either here or that other place.

 

3rd time is a charm. Just where and when!

 

I'll say that's strange!
Judy has long pants on!

 

Thanksgiving weekend

 

It sure was.

The first of many meetings.

 

Awesome Dennis, you and Judy are famous and met some great peeps!

 

What a coincidence. I’m up in Massachusetts now living in community as a lay person with a new religious group, and I just spent two hours with the priest who founded the group, laying out how we could put a Progress Hybrid into two more of their buildings. They already have one based on my recommendations in an old Inn they use for their headquarters.

And in the future they hope to add at least one or two more in this old country manor (where I’ll be living soon) that was donated to them to use as a retreat house. The place was really run down; they had to put a new roof and cedar shaker siding on it before the winter

Plus they’re building little cabins up in the woods as hermitages (or poustinias), and I’m designing little rocket masonry stoves to heat them, with a connected long bench on which they’ll place the bed. (I’m really excited to get to put my experience with masonry rocket heaters to good use.)

 

Briank, that sounds like a good job to land. I would like to follow this! Big darn place!

 

Dennis, you are a true inspiration sir. Last time I went to DC, I was 31. It almost unmanned me. That metro business put me in cold sweats for days.
Pretty neat story Dennis. It would be fun to watch some TV footage of these events. Move over Kardashians.

 

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Will there be a thread for this BrianK?

 

The place was built in 1904 by a Boston banker and has 15 bedrooms and 11 fireplaces, including one on the big wrap around porch. The original kitchen coal cook stove is still in the kitchen and one of my first projects is getting it working, and converted to burning wood. It sits on 180 acres, has a sugar maple grove, and one of the best trout streams in New England flows through the middle of the property.

 

I don’t want to spam Dennis’ thread so I should start a separate thread for it. I’ll post something this week.

 

Sounds good. That is an amazing place! Neat job to get.

 

Backwoods Savage If your notoriety continues this upward spiral that has been evidenced in recent weeks, you'll be able to get away with charging admission/lodging at your spring GTGs!!!!!

 

The Backwoods Savage teaching tour on how to live a good life!! Should be a prerequisite!

 

Thanks Dennis. They just re-bricked two of the three main fireplaces on the first floor of the manor, straight ahead and on the far right of this panarama I took today:

Plus there’s a fourth fireplace in the sitting room just to the left of the main middle fireplace above:

They have a nice little Vermont Castings Intrepid (non cat) in a big meeting room in another building on the property that we’d eventually like to replace with another Woodstock (and use the Intrepid in one of the little cabins I mentioned above):