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Typical Sunday morning activities
 

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Maybe fitting to post after your new hearth pic Huauqui. ;)

The summit going sub-nuclear before settling in for its overnight burn. It is cold here. -10c here now could see -15c by morning.

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Maybe fitting to post after your new hearth pic Huauqui. ;)

The summit going sub-nuclear before settling in for its overnight burn. It is cold here. -10c here now could see -15c by morning.

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It was down to -6 C here in Vancouver Island last night. It's been a few decades since we have hit -10 C and I'm not sure how I would fare!
 
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The summit kept us cozy overnight, and we only hit -12c. A solid 10hrs between loads and enough coals to be loading full size splits onto this morning.

That's with softwoods too. The birch in the wood rack is there to dry from my experiment of buying wood. I've burned all of my life and about fifteen years ago I bought a pickup load of wood once, and a week ago I bought a cord of 'seasoned' birch. Thought it'd be nice, birch is about as close as we get to hardwoods out here. No dice though it's sopping wet. I brought that load into the rack in hope of using it over the Christmas holidays.


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This is my hearth from where my dogs sit. They follow the sun across the room. [emoji16]
 
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Maybe fitting to post after your new hearth pic Huauqui. ;)

The summit going sub-nuclear before settling in for its overnight burn. It is cold here. -10c here now could see -15c by morning.
You Centigrade folks have a way of making things sound much worse than they are. Your -10c is only 12 degrees... not all that cold. Our minus 10 will freeze a witches teat.
 
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Just got the Phoenix going again on a cold start. Crazy day at work getting called in twice in one day for the dog, so the stove went out. Not long, and Pete (the dragon) will be puffing along and the peltier fan will be spinning. Cold coming this weekend, so I don't plan on this thing going out any time soon. Just loaded up the garage with wood in expectation.

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