RIDGERUNNER30 said:
I was wondering how many of you guys wife's think you are crazy talking about wood burning all the time. I believe my wife would like to have a mental evaulation done on me,since i purchased my sove this spring and build my hearth pad and put in a stainless chimmey in, It's like i have got a fever to want to burn that baby all night,cannot wait for those cold nights to come. My wife ask me the other night who in the world thinks about wood burning in the summertime and I told her that I found a group of guy's that are just like me honey,but I really don't thinks am crazy it just the rest of the world that is messed up.
Only 34 threads in and you're addicted to this site . . . I'm sorry . . . there's no hope for you now. Please do yourself a favor and go the nearest Hearth.com Anonymous Meeting in your town as soon as possible . . . there are meetings in most every town and state . . . usually these meetings occur in area woodlots or woodsheds, but occasionally, during the cooler months, they meet inside member's homes where you can gather around the Hearthstone, Jotul, Englander, etc. stove and share your stories and tales of woe about your addiction to heating with wood.
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We are Hearth.com . . . resistance is futile . . . you will be assimilated.
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All kidding aside . . . welcome to the addiction pal (sorry, a play on the Bruce Willis line from Die Hard . . . couldn't help myself). Like many folks here you now have the fever
. . . you will find yourself admiring your woodstove even in the warmer months when it's just sitting there doing nothing
. . . you will find yourself wandering by your woodpile to admire the gray, checked wood
. . . you will find yourself building small campfires in your backyard and burn off some junk wood just as a way of easing that deep yearning to burn
. . . you will find yourself looking in stove shops, yard sales and Craigs List ads at other woodstoves even if your own woodstove works perfectly fine
. . . you will want more toys -- I mean tools -- like chainsaws, splitters, axes, ATVs, tractors, gloves, etc.
. . . you will find yourself checking hearth.com and religiously reading threads even if you don't really know anything about the topic or care to know anything on the topic on the off chance the thread may be interesting or informative
. . . you will often stare at trees and fantasize cutting them down, chunking them up and splitting them
. . . you will see wood beside the road and wonder if anyone has claimed that wood -- even if you already have enough wood to burn for three years or more
. . . you will continually be refining your wood processing operation in an effort to make the process faster, easier or more efficient
. . . you will come up with new projects around the house -- such as building woodsheds or woodracks