what's by your stove?

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blacktail

Minister of Fire
Sep 18, 2011
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Western WA
Anyone else have souvenirs, memorabilia, heirlooms, knick knacks, etc., around their stove? I have a bunch of stuff around my insert. For starters, my grandpa liked Heidelberg beer. My sister and I have picked up Heidelberg items when we can. I have a ceramic Heidelberg sign above my insert, with an old Heidelberg bottle, and a Heidelberg patch. On the sign, I have empty shell casings from a couple of guns that I inherited. On the sides I have some shed deer antlers. Some of the smaller things include an empty 12 gauge shell (fired from an inherited gun) full of grouse feathers, a silver dollar produced in the year I was born that was given to me by my great-grandparents, a knife that was my uncles (that I sometimes use to split kindling smaller), some soap stone chunks from my favorite hunting area, a ceramic figure of a fisherman from my grandparents' house, and a chunk of brick core from a construction project where I work. The dust buster by my insert was even an inherited item that used to sit on my grandparents' hearth.
I know I'm not the only one that displays special items by the stove.
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Since mine isn't an insert I do not have a mantel like that. I built my hearth with an extended area for boot warming...but that's all I got.

You're looks great though. If I had a mantel it would be full of all sorts of goodies.
 
I have some vintage baseball gloves from my grandfather and great grandfather. I don't have any mantel either, although looking back at the layout, I may have put in a shelf or something behind the stove.
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We have a cat by the stove usually.
 
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An ash bucket with lid, a bucket of sand, welder's gloves, fireplace tools (tongs, poker, rake), a ball of aluminum foil shaped to fit the secondary air intake beneath the stove, and a mirror to find the opening. Pretty mundane...
 
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Random chit my wife decides to put up there. It changes weekly. You have a pretty cool and meaningful collection tho.
 
Random chit my wife decides to put up there. It changes weekly.
Yeah, I know what you mean. I'm not even sure what that thing is, with the twisted metal handle and the cone-shaped cup. ;lol Candle snuffer?? My stuff is at the other end, behind the oil lamp, a BBQ lighter and cat probe, in the bowl a regular lighter, some bolts. Next to bowl a flashlight.
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One of the handiest things, with a little history, is a "Fuller Brush Man" hearth broom and pan, from my MIL, probably circa the 60s to 70s.
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My UPS driver carries dog treats, it saves their shorts.
 
According to UPS's shipping guidelines, I will have to label the box "WARNING: LIVE MOLLUSKS", but I should be able to get it in the mail tomorrow before lunchtime, longer if it bites me on my taping hand.

Unfortunately, I have to laugh at your link. Which means somebody, somewhere, has tried to ship a live crocodile via UPS.....that poor guy.
 
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Unfortunately I have to laugh at your link. Which means somebody somewhere has tried to ship a live crocodile via UPS.....

I also learned that somewhere in some forgotten, dusty UPS office sits a sad, lonely man whose phone rings when UPS needs an official ruling on whether an insect is obnoxious or not.
 
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I also learned that somewhere in some forgotten, dusty UPS office sits a sad, lonely man whose phone rings when UPS needs an official ruling on whether an insect is obnoxious or not.

But its just a fruit fly....
 
I really don't keep it there, honestly, but if I move it it just goes back.
My boy goes about 80 lbs. When he plops down in front, he soaks up about half the radiation coming off the stove. :oops:
 
Way more Dust collectors than needed. Including a bat hanging on the right hand side! A bit more stuff added at this time of year. Usually have wood in the wood bin by now. But, it's been so warm I'm waiting for a cold snap to kill some of the creepy crawlies before I fill it up.
(I should probably get a new phone. All my pictures look so grainy)
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