What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

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Mid 20s tonight so back at it. Cherry and ash.
 

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I had one more fire last night. Started with a split of spruce, one of pine, and one of silver maple. Reloaded at 10 pm with red oak.
Ran it full open throttle to crisp up any creosote in the firebox so I can brush it out later (well, that's with the dial around 5 pm when 6 pm is full open, given that I think I am otherwise overdrafting). This morning at 9 it was getting ready to drop out of the active zone of the cat. 45 and sunny today, so minisplit weather.

That's 10.5 hrs (almost) wide open. Upstairs was 77 ... Glad I kept my bedroom door closed so it was nice and cool there.
 
Wednesday was my last burn of the year. I would have burned yesterday(30 f low temp) but wasn't home. The F45 did well to keep us warm and lower the oil/electric bills.
 
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30 degrees with a load of mostly birch and one white ash. Will probably be burning off and on for a while yet with overnight lows in the upper 20's and low 30's still coming for the next month or so. Sometimes I just have an aspen and black ash fire in the morning to take the chill out when the overnight stays in the 40's.
 
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I was burning hemlock and poplar, with a mix of maple off cuts all day. Nice thing about the cat stove is I warmed the shop up in the am, let it smolder all afternoon and tossed a bit more on when it dropped into the 40s again. Beautiful afternoon though, I had the shop door open for a bit.
 
Lit a fire last night. Reloaded the stove this morning because it is 29°f.
I put a couple of maple, hickory and oak pieces in the stove.
Could be the last fire for a little while. Temps are supposed to stay in the 50s at night for the next few days.
 
No fire in about a week. Currently 76 but dropping to upper 20's by morning. Sunday night to Monday morning is expected to be in the teens... A little snow expected tomorrow, but not much accumulation. So..., fire in the morning and probably through Monday morning at least.
 
29 degrees, cloudy and windy. Firing up the charcoal with some kindling then will be a load of aspen and black ash. High of 39 forecast today. Will probably reload this afternoon with the same and have a hardwood load overnight.
 
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29 degrees, cloudy and windy. Firing up the charcoal with some kindling then will be a load of aspen and black ash. High of 39 forecast today. Will probably reload this afternoon with the same and have a hardwood load overnight.
It sounds like we will have your weather Monday into Tuesday this week. May have to run up a load or 2 of spruce for the king to munch on.
 
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It sounds like we will have your weather Monday into Tuesday this week. May have to run up a load or 2 of spruce for the king to munch on.
Yes, and it's kind of unusual to still be using the stove after mowing the lawn for the first time this year, which I did Thursday. I guess the wood stove season isn't quite over yet in Conn.
 
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