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The Christmas stove
Lighting the first fire
This year’s Christmas present to ourselves was a new woodstove for the Balehouse. In a way, it is also a present to our guests as we were suspicious that the older stove was past its prime. Very fancy, by our standards, it is properly rated and can be as close as 16 inches from the wall. Unfortunately our last stove needed to be miles away and the stove pipe still dictates the placement of the new one. At least we were able to take out the sand/brick/box flooring and we laid out just the bricks making for a smaller footprint.
To make the most of the glass door we turned the stove to face into the room. That means we will have to rethink the flooring in front of it, but it also frees up a fair amount of space to the side.
Why is it when we put something together we need tools that are not where we are at the time? I think we could be assembling something in the toolshed itself, and still have to go search another compound building for some necessary implement.
3 Responses to “The Christmas stove”
shouldn’t that be “very warm”?
Glad to see the stove is working well and, more importantly, One Match McRae’s reputation still intact.
Fire good. Cold bad. Black box in balehouse make warm fire. Black box good. Me like black box. Hug black box to say thank you. AAAIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE