First, a pretty Icon. Thank you, @inventrix!!
Second, guys, we MADE FIRE!! We finally got the wood-burning stove installed and MADE FIRE! There was some smoke and some mess but then fire happened! (the seam on the pipe popped but we got it put back together).
Remembering how to start a fire is, it seems, like riding a bike. You let the memory muscles take over and it works.
And, while our house is not at all set up to be entirely heated by the stove (It’s on the high end of a slightly-sloping downstairs, for one), it certainly helped, and we have lots of scrap wood & half a freecycled ruined barn and grapevine galore to burn, and that’s a lot cheaper (i.e. free) than heating oil/kerosene, which are stupid expensive.
Window is almost done. Next… painting the utility room (woo). 🙂 And the accessory parts of the bedroom.
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Kiki’s signed up for freecycle and says it’s quite delightful. Do you use actual-freecycle or just scrounge?
We use actual-freecycle. Ithaca is thick with it.
Because it’s a college town, right? Nice.
I think more because it’s a hippy town. This past Saturday we freecycled 15lbs of pork bits. Today we’re going to get a boxspring.
Make sure you defumigate the boxspring or something. No bringing home bedbugs!
ew, I hadn’t even thought of that O_O
That’s why I said something. Bedbugs and fleas. Unlikely you’ll bring home any mature adults, but the eggs…
Put in garage, let them freeze out, then spray it down with bug spray? Still have some from Drake’s unfortunate time.
Yes. You might google whatever the active ingredient is in the flea/bug spray, make sure it works against bedbugs too, but I bet if it’s pyrethrins it’ll work.
Thank you for the kind words.
Thank YOU for the awesome story!
Yay, fire! That’s one of the things I most wish I could have in my place. Yay, adorable icon!
Yay, fire! Woodstoves are so nice to sit near, and bask. At least, that is what I do. My parents have a fan for theirs – if sits on top of the stove and the hot air rising turns the blades, which move the air further form the stove. It works very well to heat an area sort of around the corner from the stove.
We bought my parents a similar one, and will probably get ourselves one, too. This stove has a blower, which helps move the air around.