AnyBody Else Burning Tonight?

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It is a windy one tonight. Got home from work and found the wife and kids curled up on a sofa with a blanket. Now that's just wrong and obscene. We have both a Pellet and a Wood stove in this house. Both are now cranking. House is a comfortable 75 degrees now, was 64 when I got in. Let Go Yankees!! sorry, had to throw that one in there....
Happy Burning!!!
 
Hell, when I used to heat with oil 64 degrees would have been hot in my house in the winter!! ;)
 
Aint you glad you don't have to worry about that anymore? Now where i come from that's just too cold!!!!!. 30 years of living in the US and still trying to get used to the cold weather. Give me 85 and I'm a happy man.
 
Nope...I wont light her up till it is low 40's or 30's. I agree with summertime that 64 was the norm in my house all winter with oil and we were all happy with that. I think this time of year at these temps it just time to throw on a sweatshirt or extra blanky and call it good. Oh BTW I'm from Maine so GOOOOO SOX!!!!
 
I hear ya RatherBfishin, I'm in the sticks though so I have access to lots of free wood. so why not. Sox got their work cut out for them with LA. Just took the family to Ogonquit ME, absolutely loved it. Water was too cold for my taste but kids loved it. Great seafood up there. Fresh cheap LOBSTA!!!!.
 
Sounds like we will be soon. An Alaskan high is about to descend on us bringing wind and cool temps. Should be in the midwest by the weekend.
 
If this house gets down to 64 that stove is starting up. I have been cold and I have been old. But I refuse to be old and cold with ten cords of wood sitting out back.
 
Speak your piece BrotherBart. And that's coming from a man with 10531 POSTS in this great forum. WOOOOWWIIEEE.
 
KatWill said:
Speak your piece BrotherBart. And that's coming from a man with 10531 POSTS in this great forum. WOOOOWWIIEEE.
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And three of them actually had any substance to them. :lol:
 
I have my second fire of the year going. It's wet an cold here. It was 63 in the house when i got home, it's 72 now.
 
Folks, when you get a chance, add your stove make and model to your signatures.
 
Playing with the new thermometer tonight. Playing with new wood. Mucho drier wood.

What I need to do is get a pic of Murph infront of the stove this year. What a differance a year makes !! But he still parks infront of it !!
 
Not tonight, we finally had a nice sunny day which warmed up the house nicely and should hold through the night. Looks like it's going to be stove burning weather again in a couple days.
 
We are in that goofy time of year when it will be 80 one day and 60 with low forties at night the next. I will probably smoke up one of the new chimney caps this weekend.
 
BrotherBart said:
We are in that goofy time of year when it will be 80 one day and 60 with low forties at night the next. I will probably smoke up one of the new chimney caps this weekend.
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That's what I'm hoping for. If the stars align and I can get 48 minutes to myself, I'll get the chimney cleaned this weekend..and then all bets are off!
 
Ah, the smell of hot steel in the air... quite pleasant, really. First fire downstairs this morning to take the chill off. Absolutely love the big fire view of the Nestor Martin. It's a really nice stove. Upstairs is still being kept quite toasty by the passive solar.
 
precaud said:
Ah, the smell of hot steel in the air... quite pleasant, really.
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No kidding. I have noticed since I lined the chimneys that when I am burning the stoves and walk outside often as not I smell hot stainless steel more often than I smell wood smoke.
 
If it weren't for the raunchy stench of the Siberian Elm I'm burning in the shoulder seasons, I might be able to say the same... it's the worst aroma from burning wood I've ever encountered.
 
small fire again, i think its the 6th or seventh one for us. im thinking the soapstone stove is now broken in . looking forward to colder temperatures to experience how this new unit heats . pete
 
Yup . . . had a fire going in the evenings now for a bout a week . . . it's borderline for me to start one . . . but hey, I've got the wood and like Brother Bart I figure I worked hard last Fall and this Spring and now it's time to enjoy a little of those fruits of my labor . . . so when the house temp dips down to 64 or 66 the stove gets fired up for a quick, hot fire to take the chill out of the air.
 
if i can ever get my stove put back together i'll burn a load. i got to get to it that cold that's coming into the west will be here this weekend. never smelt siberian elm, but catalpa is a real stinka.
 
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