A Holiday and New Years Essay about the Hearth and Home
It’s truly timeless, this fire on the Hearth. It’s beauty, it’s dynamics and it’s peaceful beckoning. My instincts tell me to stand close, to watch the flickering flames and ponder the day gone by.
At this time of… Read the entire story......
The Real Price of Oil
The Price of Oil can be Higher that what you pay!
The price of Fuel Oil and Gasoline may be in the vicinity of a three dollars (2007) a gallon, but the true cost is much more. An illustration may show the difference more graphically.
A widely reported recent… Read the entire story......
The Subject is Wood
Wood as a home heating fuel, written by industry expert, Stephen Morris
The subject is wood, a material I have used to heat my home for the past fifteen years. I know it’s more work to burn wood, but I like the exercise. It makes more sense to burn calories splitting and… Read the entire story......
Santa can’t get down the chimney
A story by a British writer about Chimneys
On the Level 19/12/99 by Jeff Howell
There’s no way Santa is going to get down my chimney this Christmas. First he’d have to squeeze through one of the holes in the terracotta rain cowl, and then he’d… Read the entire story......
Unrest in the Forest - A Poem
A Famous Poem and the Redux written “off the cuff” by Hearth.com member
Unrest in the Forest
There is unrest in the forest
There is trouble with the trees
For the maples want more sunlight
And the oaks ignore their pleas
The trouble… Read the entire story......
Comfort in My woodpile - Some of the Real Benefits of burning Wood.
Comfort in My woodpile - By Hearth.com member David V
Few things in my life give me the sense of satisfaction that my wood pile does. Nobody is gonna praise me for the time I put into it. I don’t feed my family with those efforts. I do keep them… Read the entire story......
Energy Editorial - Why the Bush/Cheney National Energy Policy stinks..
An opinion of the current oil-based Energy Policy - written by Craig Issod, Hearth.com Founder
Energy Editorial - Why the Bush/Cheney National Energy Policy stinks…
Full Article…
Interesting that Dick Cheny has unveiled his new energy policy for America on the same day the American Lung Association has announced that more… Read the entire story......
DIYers - unpack your stove before you burn it!
Submitted by a Pellet Stove dealer in New England
We had a service call today...a Harman Pellet stove,. The distribution fan wouldn’t come on. Pretty easy fix, ESP probe failure most likely, covered under warrantee, customer installed the unit himself, no biggie.
Went out there, and as… Read the entire story......
Steal my wood? I’ll blow up your stove and house!
Story told about a wood pile which was being stolen from during the Great Depression
My grandfather was born in 1921. He was a teen during the depression and times were tough. They had a miserly old neighbor who used to come over and steal wood from my great grandfather. My grandpa said that his… Read the entire story......