May 16th and Fired Up

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wkpoor

Minister of Fire
Oct 30, 2008
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Amanda, OH
This is the latest I have ever had the stove going. Its been cold and rainy here for the last 3 days and today it barely broke 50. Sure feels good.
 
Burning is over here but the rain just keeps coming and coming. The hail storm a half hour ago didn't cover the ground enough to qualify for a fire.
 
Yep - been having morning fires to get the house from low 60's to 70 or so. The rain is making the house cool and damp, so the fire dries things and takes out the chill. I saved about a 1/4 cord of small oak and maple rounds (~2-3" diameter) for exactly this kind of burning. Was going to have a fire tonight, but I'll wait till the morning. I think I'll have morning fires through at least Saturday - the rain is supposed to last till then with cool temps. Cheers!
 
wkpoor said:
This is the latest I have ever had the stove going. Its been cold and rainy here for the last 3 days and today it barely broke 50. Sure feels good.
Exactly the same for me here. It is supposed to dip to 36 tonight.
 
Below freezing every morning but good heat during the day to make the E windows produce good solar gain to hold the house temps over night. Had a T-shirt on again today. Birds are making lots of noise. Light till almost 11PM.
Burn that junkie pine people and stay warm. I have to save mine for when it gets cold.
Cheers
 
The PE is going, the NC13 is quiet. Oddly, the PE gets the job done for the whole house in times like this, weird layout that it is.


Damp, damp, damp for the next week or so :-S
 
Had a fire going since Sunday morning. Whether or not it goes out today remains to be seen. Showers, breezy, low fifties.
 
Still burning . . . I really hope we don't end up with a cold, wet summer like we had a few years back . . . I was burning on July 3rd that year . . . of course it is still early in the year and things can change.
 
Had a fire last night to take the chill off. Frost in the marsh below and across the road.
Getting close to the end but not there yet.
 
No fire last night but will light up again tonight, it was a bit chilly first thing today and a small fire in the evening keeps the house warm into the morning.

It's a chance to burn some odd sized chunks of wood that I didn't want hanging around making the woodpile look untidy

Wish we had some rain, we are suffering a drought here, cool NW winds, drying the plants out quickly.

At least next Autumns wood pile is getting even drier too ;-)
 
Same here, fire the NC30 off to kill the chill, just not running 24/7 any more. Frost warnings yesterday over here by the big pond.
 
its been in the 20's the last three nights. frost on the windshield melts quickly while the car is parked facing the sun, though. tonight is the "last" cold night forecasted for awhile. (yeah, right) maybe i'll be able to pull the fires from the 5036 tomorrow or the next day.
spent the weekend at the cottage with the nc-13 burning...continually. wet, windy and cold. the stove and hearth look great and pleases everyone...a lot smaller than the old tri-lakes i had in there.
 
I'm also burning again after a week long break.
 
We've hardly even gotten above 50 at all here... most overnight lows are still in the lower 30's (tonight is supposed to drop to 28). ...and we still have feet of snow on the ground ;)
 
OK, I'm done. I mean it this time. Really.
 
I think I saw sun outside about 10 minutes ago . . . I could be wrong though . . . maybe I was just walking towards the light. ;)
 
I saw sun this morning, watching the news. Potential for another 12" over the next three days. *facepalm*
 
What's the surprise? We always burn a daily fire through most of May and usually into mid June. Start again in mid September. 9 months of burning per year.
 
We had the Keystone fired-up last night, May 17th and will likely do the same tonight as it is overcast, rainy and cool. I can see a hit or miss fire to knock off the chill to the end of the month. I'd rather light a match than turn up the furnance.

Bill
 
May 18 is most likely the last day for us. I think we shattered the record. Cool rainy and 50f. Thank goodness for extra wood that's dry.
 
2 nights in a row burning here for the first time in 6 weeks. I'm burning my only dry wood, the kids marshmallow toastin firewood.
Desperate times call for desperate measures.
 
Ain't no burning here at 50 degrees. A waste of good wood for next year to me.
 
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