Housework

Uh Oh she's hooked!

You are supposed to do that as well.

Wait until you start burning

I actually do more housework when burning, as I like being around the stove when it's cranking out heat!
During the off season, it's like a friend has gone away for the summer. But he'll be back in the fall

Melissa220 said:

I want you all to know that, since joining this forum, my housework has suffered as this is far more fun!

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Yep.. As said above, wait until it is actually burning.

Add up all the minues of me standing in front of a fire (any of my stoves) and I lose about 1 month of a 5-6 month burning season!

It's only gonna get worse..... So hang on Or learn to live in destruction. LOL

heat seeker said:

I actually do more housework when burning, as I like being around the stove when it's cranking out heat!
During the off season, it's like a friend has gone away for the summer. But he'll be back in the fall

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I feel the same way, but I get pissed off at my stove during the summer. I paid a lot for that sucker, and it just sits there all summer without contributing anything to the family.

Stoves hibernate during the summer the way us bears hibernate in the winter!! Getting close to firing the old gal up, can't wait.

Mine is in the kitchen area, and my original idea was to have my GF put her cut flowers in a vase on it, or some decorative theme. Seems like it never happens, but I keep it dusted off and lookin' good. The stove has been repainted just before I bought it, and they did a good job, so the stove looks nice. During burning season, the stove looks like it's a working item, but in the spring, the paint cans come out and it gets dolled up for the summer snooze.

Melissa220 said:

Isn't it, like, an extra shelf in the summer? somewhere to put the surround speaker, or the cats to sit on, or get the corner all shiny and worn where you go by and touch it and rub it, waiting for the cold?

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Laundry table
...but laundry doesn't get done -I'm splitting wood or on here instead.

Melissa220 said:

I want you all to know that, since joining this forum, my housework has suffered as this is far more fun!

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We got a Border Collie puppy in Nov.2011.......Had our pellet stove installed in Mar. 2012.......Benson{the dog} requires more maintenance than Burnadette{the stove} during burning AND non-burning seasons.. But we love both !

I don't ever set anything on mine. I am afraid if I start I will forget and do it in winter. It doesn't get terribly hot, but would melt plastic.

I used to take the door off my old Fisher Mamma bear and put a couple of lit candles inside. Since my new stove will have a viewing glass, I can burn the candles inside without the doors off. Summer time the stove becomes a large candle holder for me.

papa bears stove said:

Stoves hibernate during the summer the way us bears hibernate in the winter!! Getting close to firing the old gal up, can't wait.

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You are in the wrong line of work then papa bear, I've been trying to get in a winter's hibernation since I got my pellet eater, but the Mrs. makes me stay awake all winter long tending to things around here. What's a poor bear to do?

jtakeman said:

Uh Oh she's hooked!

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Yep, seems so. As long as she doesn't start asking about "sparks" or "bushes" , she'll be right at home here.

Housework can wait.....pellet stoves come first
as others mentioned, if you got the bug already, just wait till burning season

Now would be the time to sell her a spark bucket. Anyone?

Here Avatar is spot on with Sydney1963's... LOL.

Where is Slickplant?

For a Good laugh... Read here https://www.hearth.com/talk/threads/sparks-from-the-pipe.24417/

That one comes up every year! When you know about some of the other postings with the same players, it add a bit more flavor to the comedy.

Melissa220 said:

OMG

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When they wrote the book on Abnormal Psychology this forum is where all of the examples came from.