You can go anywhere in the world and look at the most beautiful woman anyone has ever seen.....just remember....somewhere there is a man tired of putting up with her $hI+
My uncle, a minister, told me in my youth that choosing the right wife was a serious and life changing decision! I may have waited till I was 40 but I got the right one As many of you know, last year in November I lost power for 22 days. My wife loves our woodstove! Just in case, life happens. Don't wait til your thirsty to start digging a well!
My wife is famous within the FHC family for never picking up a piece of firewood, even if she was about to trip over it. That being said, she enjoys the folks from 'our gang' that she has met and respects our family approach to most issues. She also thinks my wood hoarding habbits are in need of a 12 step program. But she she loves the warmth the wood brings and lets me continue with my addiction without criticizing me. 34 years and I'm happy to keep her for another 34, if I don't drive her nutz before then.
Friend needs a new wife, and she needs a new husband. Simple as that - anything else is just dragging out the inevitable. Life is too short to be miserable all the time. My wife and I compliment each other well. If I was single, I'd wind up with a junkyard. I appreciate the checks and balances she puts out regarding my making a mess of half finished projects around. If she was single, she'd be broke from having the new model of everything, or throwing out things that can rightly be put back into service with a couple turns of a screwdriver. Over almost twenty years, we've picked up on each other's traits.. I try to keep the non-running vehicles down to a maximum of two, and the wood piles mostly organized. She has learned frugality, and the benefits of making do with what you have sometimes - such as being able to take a vacation almost every single year we've been together with money we didn't pizz away on a talking refrigerator or the newest model SUV. If there's no give and take, one person better be a total sub and happy about it or the relationship is doomed.
Ralphie Boy You might want to add a few steps that I may have missed cause I only came up to a 7 step program you are on. 1. Select what to cut 2. Cut blocks 3. Split blocks 4. Stack splits 5. Bring inside 6. Load stove 7. Empty ashes
Was out of town working last couple of days wood stove still going strong and a fresh jug of whiskey under the counter . Drive way was not plowed I will take care of that . That is likely why we have been married 29 yrs. My advice throw her out on her ash and get a dog if you have one get another lots need nice warm homes
I waited till I was 38 to marry. Sampled a few along the way, some had so much crap on the bath room vanity for their vanity it was nearly impossiable to wash your paws. Some never wanted to be home always wanting to be some where else, never cook a meal in. Some thought that money could be picked off a tree and you could make payments on a new car TV fridge and the heating bill with plastic. I finally settled on a woman afraid of mice and I don't pick on her about it because I do not like snakes one bit and she doesn't pick on me about them. She likes it warm in the house in the winter, the coldest room in the house stays at 71F all winter. In the spring when we have cold mornings and it heats up during the day and I over filled the furnace she opens the windows and lets in the fresh spring air same in the early fall with out complaining. I make the inside the house splits of a size she can handle and take off to our UP cabin deer hunting for 2 weeks. Come home and the house is warm the stove is full of fire wood and the ashes have been taken out. No if I were that fellow I would set the thermostat at 65F inside a lock box for the home heating system. Then I would go and play in the woods with my chain saw and splitter helping my friends stock up on fire wood. My daughter lives in a city on small plot subdivision. She doesn't burn fire wood to heat the house and was married to a guy who wanted a warm house so payed dearly for the heat. But life kicked her butt and she is single and has been for a good long while. My wife and I do not visit in the winter. We like a warm house also, and do not want to be in a house that you still wear a heavy jacket and insulated pants while watching tv and we also do not like 4 or 5 quilts on our bed and a heated blanket to sleep. Keeping a house that cold in a state like Wisconsin Minesota and Michigan and several others just plain sucks. Not going to ever put up with a wife who is always complaining about some saw dust on my boots or socks. a bit of bark on the ground either. Bet she buts bark mulch that has been died red in her flower beds too. Al
The problem with marriage is the woman marries the man hoping he will change, and he doesn't. The man marries the woman hoping she won't change, and she does. There are exceptions here and there, I hope to be one someday.
Okay here is what I'd do if I was your friend. Soon as I got done stacking as much firewood as I want the way that I want, I'd march right in that house and give her a stern reminder of just who the man of the house is. Then I'd put my foot down and say lookey here missy, firewood is not only a money saving hobby, it is also a passion and you'll go before that firewood goes toots. Seeing how I'm not him, I'll stick to keeping my mouth shut and doing what I'm told
