A nice fire on a cold evening
Think I will have a little 🥃
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I'm sitting by our wood stove.
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6 degrees here and the woodstove is doing its job , I am sippin a drink and settling in for the night .
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Hasnt been above zero here for four days. I heat the home with a wood fired boiler in the basement. Sucking up the wood in this kind of weather. No relief forcast for a week!
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I’m gonna have to negotiate a spot by the fire, dog says it’s hers for the time being.
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Niece hearth! Had a little fire in the pellet stove this eve, mostly for a little ambiance.
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"Hasn't been above zero here for four days." Let me know where you are jimmyjack so I never go there in the winter.
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We're up on the side of a mountain between Prince William Sound and Cook Inlet. One is deep blue water from the Gulf of Alaska, the other is inflow from the Bering Sea, and they don't usually agree what the temperature or pressure should be. So the barometric pressure equalizes where our house sits and we get some crazy weather. Right now they both think zero degrees is right, so we're still and calm watching the northern lights and burning lots of wood with no temperature.
I love tossing a chunk of frozen birch in the fire and hearing it crack as it heats up. Now all we need is some ice fog tonight to coat everything with an inch of hoarfrost for the morning.
This is such a pretty place to live among the critters and the mountains. If you haven't read The Call of the Wild you really should.
Have you gazed on naked grandeur where there's nothing else to gaze on, set pieces and drop-curtain scenes galore,
Big mountains heaved to heaven, which the blinding sunsets blazon, black canyons where the rapids rip and roar?
Have you swept the visioned valley with the green stream streaking through it, searched the Vastness for a something you have lost?
Have you strung your soul to silence? Then for God's sake go and do it; hear the challenge, learn the lesson, pay the cost.
Have you wandered in the wilderness, the sagebrush desolation, the bunch-grass levels where the cattle graze?
Have you whistled bits of rag-time at the end of all creation, and learned to know the desert's little ways?
Have you camped upon the foothills, have you galloped o'er the ranges, have you roamed the arid sun-lands through and through?
Have you chummed up with the mesa? Do you know its moods and changes? Then listen to the Wild -- it's calling you.
Have you known the Great White Silence, not a snow-gemmed twig a-quiver? (eternal truths that shame our soothing lies)
Have you broken trail on snowshoes? mushed your huskies up the river, dared the unknown, led the way, and clutched the prize?
Have you marked the map's void spaces, mingled with the mongrel races, felt the savage strength of brute in every thew?
And though grim as hell the worst is, can you round it off with curses? Then hearken to the Wild -- it's wanting you.
Have you suffered, starved and triumphed, groveled down, yet grasped at glory, grown bigger in the bigness of the whole?
"Done things" just for the doing, letting babblers tell the story, seeing through the nice veneer the naked soul?
Have you seen God in His splendors, heard the text that nature renders? (you'll never hear it in the family pew)
The simple things, the true things, the silent men who do things -- then listen to the Wild -- it's calling you.
They have cradled you in custom, they have primed you with their preaching, they have soaked you in convention through and through;
They have put you in a showcase; you're a credit to their teaching -- but can't you hear the Wild? -- it's calling you.
Let us probe the silent places, let us seek what luck betide us; let us journey to a lonely land I know.
There's a whisper on the night-wind, there's a star agleam to guide us, and the Wild is calling, calling ... let us go.
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I'm thinking more like the old Johnny Horton song:
"...springtime in Alaska, it's 40° below."
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Not sure who wrote it but another song comes to mind
Well it's 40 below and I don't give a ##, got a heater in my truck and I'm going to the rodeo.
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Im in Wis. a couple hundred miles from Canada. Cold weather doesnt slow down the ice fishing too much, everyone has a heated shack, and with the lack of real deep snow trucks etc. are driving all over the lakes,
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"with the lack of real deep snow trucks etc. are driving all over the lakes"
And you know what THAT leads to.......
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"with the lack of real deep snow trucks etc. are driving all over the lakes"
And you know what THAT leads to.......
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That is C😎😎L
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That is C😎😎L
The only way to make that any better is to power it with a tricked out flathead!
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It's been below 0 to low teens above zero for a few days in the Midwest. I'm seeing the huge mistake I made in buying a new wood pellet stove to replace my 20+ year old corn/pellet furnace. I read all the available customer reviews and did what I could before deciding to buy the Cleveland Ironworks pellet stove. Three months of experience has shown me how poor the choice was. High fuel consumption with unimpressive heat output is what I've found. While some might be interested in the phone app control and the little remote control thingie, I only see more problems on the horizon.
Just for the benefit of anyone thinking about buying a Cleveland pellet stove, I don't recommend doing so unless it's more for ambiance and a cozy little foot warmer than for a real heating device. Mine cost $1200 plus a 300 mile drive and is costing $10-15 more per day than a propane stove of similar size would cost while providing insufficient heat for a square footage 20% under the rated heat area.
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An honest heads up!
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I’m gonna have to negotiate a spot by the fire, dog says it’s hers for the time being.
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How long does it take the dutch oven to run out of water ?
I had a similar humidifier with a 3qt. cast iron tea kettle, would last about a day and a half.
Good luck with the pooch ! Snow and ice and sleet chills every creature to the bone !
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gesshots we fill the dutch every morning, drop some cloves and cinnamon in it and make sure it doesn't boil dry! What a stink when it does!
The dog takes some acclimatizing in the fall, but by the time the snow is deep she's out playing with me. Both my Pits love to surf down steep snowy slopes. I don't think my bare belly would tolerate that well!
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@gesshots we fill the dutch every morning, drop some cloves and cinnamon in it and make sure it doesn't boil dry! What a stink when it does!
The dog takes some acclimatizing in the fall, but by the time the snow is deep she's out playing with me. Both my Pits love to surf down steep snowy slopes. I don't think my bare belly would tolerate that well!
https://us.v-cdn.net/6031683/uploads/JWGR6V27TZMU/img-8848-jpg.jpg
Take good care of the dogs, and they will take care of you ! ... True love that no amount of money can buy 😊
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Yep.
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Nanuq907: 31515095637659/comments/31515111504795
@gesshots we fill the dutch every morning, drop some cloves and cinnamon in it and make sure it doesn't boil dry! What a stink when it does!
The dog takes some acclimatizing in the fall, but by the time the snow is deep she's out playing with me. Both my Pits love to surf down steep snowy slopes. I don't think my bare belly would tolerate that well!
https://us.v-cdn.net/6031683/uploads/JWGR6V27TZMU/img-8848-jpg.jpg
Once the hair is gone, it should be easier...
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I love snow
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Take good care of the dogs, and they will take care of you ! ... True love that no amount of money can buy 😊
Amen to that. One thing that really kills me is, their lives are SO short, yet they willingly give entire days and weeks and years just lying there watching me work, anticipating our fun when it's quittin time. There is no truer devotion.
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