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You don't mind when Santa brings coal, you just hope he brings a few tons to get you through winter.
You like shoveling coal rather collecting and burning wood? Interesting. I suppose we could start a coal thread. Dad used to shovel and burn it back in '49 and '50.You don't mind when Santa brings coal, you just hope he brings a few tons to get you through winter.
On the contrary, I'm Santa Claus to several of my best customers and friends. I drop off about three wheel barrows full of wood to them right before Christmas and charge them nothing. That means that I do it now.I burn a few five gallon bucks a year, only at night when I don't think I am going to up in time time to reload the stove and don't want it to go out. I throw a few lumps in on very cold nights, just for a little extra insurance that I will have some coals for a restart if needed. I burn wood 99.9% of the time, just said it for the ha ha effect cause unfortunately Santa don't bring wood.
Usually the lady of the house gives me a big hug, a smile, and says "Thanks". That's all that I need.
You have more pictures in your phone of wood you've cut than pictures of your kids. (me)
you have splitting mauls in each outbuilding
you have more than a dozen saws
your wood splitter has 2 ft chip piles around it
the doctor looks at you and asks, " Are you smoking again ??"
Your wife asks,"Can you see through those glasses ??"
You think you have tinitis but it's just the hum from the OWB circulator.
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... when you gladly bust up a few pieces of apple wood by hand just to sucker the "tough guy" BIL from the city into giving it a shot, then spend the next two days of his visit saying "It's not as easy as splitting Apple" any time a job needs to be done.
You have more pictures in your phone of wood you've cut than pictures of your kids. (me)
... when your wife says she tried to find laundry detergent with "fresh wood smoke" scent because anything else is just wasted during the winter..
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