lit the stove last night.
Like Mt Washington ( N.H.) that gets snow every month, our stoves Downeast get worked every month. Why suffer ? It's why we bust chops harvesting each winter.
June through August is the shoulder shoulder time when only the worst of the firewood is burnt: partial punks, some pooched, the odd cut-offs, all softwood.
Hey: wassup with this "firepit" thing ? So called summer comes, there's plenty else to recreate here. :rolleyes2: Each to their own.
Remind me not to move to the northeast. I can deal with -30° in the winter, as long as I know that 90° is waiting at the other end of the calendar. My stove has been cold for over a month now. There've been a few nights I got home and the house was in the high 50's, but I don't mind it, and there's no one else here to b&&&h about it being cold. Now I'm getting to the point where I'm considering putting the AC back in the window, 76° upstairs at 1AM, but still nice and cool in the basement. I'll tough it out a while longer, I hate light bills almost as much as gas bills, I just can't do as much about them.
RE: Firepits, it's a primal thing. Shortly after man discovered fire, man discovered that beer tasted better near a fire, women were more attractive in the dancing glow of a fire, and the creatures of the darkness stayed away while the fires were burning.
That, and it's a way to get rid of some of that **^&ing box elder!
PS - welcome back from "camp".
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