Iska3
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I’m sorry you took my reply to your posting out of context. In no way did I mean to say or imply that you neglect your children. I would never throw stones at my fellow man unless I have walked in their shoes.
When I brought up the fact that I had many foster children in the past, I was thinking the same as many on this forum. Some kids just don’t get it. You can teach them the proper way to maintain a wood stove and for some reason they still have a fear of doing something wrong and being yelled at or it goes right over their head. Others are like your daughter when you said… “Christ man, the daughter is 15 and knows how to put wood in the furnace... she's just toooooooo ????, and knows I'll do it when I get home”. Dad, I know you didn’t mean that. Show me one girl her age that isn’t that way. You should have had my daughter at her age. She would have been upstairs in her bed reading a book and could care less if the house was cool or not.
When I first read your posting, I couldn’t understand what it had to do with a Firewood and Heating and after reading it, I understood your frustrations. I don’t know what your beef is with me. I’m on your side. 60 some degrees is not too cold in a house. Be realistic, the house wasn’t that cold for days. We all know better.. The truth is, I found it rather funny because the same thing happen to me some 30 years ago.
I just told my wife the other day about me when I was younger. When I was a kid, I remember waking up more than once in the mornings and seeing ice in the pail on the stove or going to bed and seeing our breaths. WE had these big feather quilts so we never were cold in bed.
As far as you going out for a few. Hey! It was your birthday, why wouldn’t you go out.
Kids now days got it good, it’s no ones fault but your own. After all, who’s the one who spoiled them.. In her mind, she’ll always be daddy’s little girl.
As far as the thermostat… When I had a big old inside furnace, I’d set the LP thermostat at 62 degrees so the LP would go on if the fire was out. I also had a small radiator on top of the stove that was connected to the baseboard heat that ran through the boiler. Keep in mind that I have a big old farm house and we had a good 4 full cords of wood in the basement so it was easy to fill. I was working days 14 and 16 hours a day and taking care of the farm at night. The ex was working nights so there was always a time when the kids might be home alone. Hey! They were teens and could take care of themselves..
When I would come home from work, the house would always around 68 degrees and the stove might have hot coals in it. After about a week or two of this, I told the ex to make sure she filled the stove before going to work. Her reply was that the stove was always half full and the kids would add the extra when they got home from school. After about a month of this and knowing I had to fill the furnace several times a day on the weekend, I soon realized that a month earlier the wife and I went to a party and knowing we might be late, I turned up the thermostat to something like 68 degrees. Yep! You guessed it… I set the thermostat at 68 a month earlier and never turned it down after that. The kids and the ex never did put any wood in the furnace in over a month.
As far as the foster kids and the stories… Trust me many of those kids would change places with your kids in a second and think 60 some degrees in a real house with a bed and food on the table was a dream.
What happened with my posting was my fault. I just put a heater on the log splitter came in and read your posting. I started to laugh thinking that I had done the same thing years earlier. I still get bouts with the Lyme so I type out my reply on word and do a copy and paste. I wrote about being a foster parent and then wrote the following….
What you should have done when you came home is say… “Who wants Ice Cream” and watch how fast those kids jumped off the couch and forget about the cold. But being in a rush I didn’t copy the full thing. After that I read about someone one wrote about how the weeks before you wrote about it being too warm for fire. Again I thought it was funny but I did not reply because I went out side. I had plans to edit my fist comment later.
If you look back at my posting and comments, I have never said one bad thing about anyone over the years. I’m sorry to say, I do not live in a glass house.. I came from a strong Polish background and I’ll be the first to go without to help my fellow man. I believe the best gift one could give is the ones they do not take credit for.
I am one of the lucky ones… To many, I have nothing… and those who know me would like to walk in my shoes. While you were having thoughts of what I may have been thinking and posting some silly remarks, I was outside splitting some of my wood in to smaller pieces to give to someone who has less than me.
I should send your wife a rep for taking you out and relax a bit. We all need to have a time out or the stress could kill us.
Once again, I meant no disrespect in my posting. I’m sorry if you had a bad day. I would have responded to your comments earlier but I was busy and never gave it another thought. .
Don't forget to turn back down the thermostat
John
When I brought up the fact that I had many foster children in the past, I was thinking the same as many on this forum. Some kids just don’t get it. You can teach them the proper way to maintain a wood stove and for some reason they still have a fear of doing something wrong and being yelled at or it goes right over their head. Others are like your daughter when you said… “Christ man, the daughter is 15 and knows how to put wood in the furnace... she's just toooooooo ????, and knows I'll do it when I get home”. Dad, I know you didn’t mean that. Show me one girl her age that isn’t that way. You should have had my daughter at her age. She would have been upstairs in her bed reading a book and could care less if the house was cool or not.
When I first read your posting, I couldn’t understand what it had to do with a Firewood and Heating and after reading it, I understood your frustrations. I don’t know what your beef is with me. I’m on your side. 60 some degrees is not too cold in a house. Be realistic, the house wasn’t that cold for days. We all know better.. The truth is, I found it rather funny because the same thing happen to me some 30 years ago.
I just told my wife the other day about me when I was younger. When I was a kid, I remember waking up more than once in the mornings and seeing ice in the pail on the stove or going to bed and seeing our breaths. WE had these big feather quilts so we never were cold in bed.
As far as you going out for a few. Hey! It was your birthday, why wouldn’t you go out.
Kids now days got it good, it’s no ones fault but your own. After all, who’s the one who spoiled them.. In her mind, she’ll always be daddy’s little girl.
As far as the thermostat… When I had a big old inside furnace, I’d set the LP thermostat at 62 degrees so the LP would go on if the fire was out. I also had a small radiator on top of the stove that was connected to the baseboard heat that ran through the boiler. Keep in mind that I have a big old farm house and we had a good 4 full cords of wood in the basement so it was easy to fill. I was working days 14 and 16 hours a day and taking care of the farm at night. The ex was working nights so there was always a time when the kids might be home alone. Hey! They were teens and could take care of themselves..
When I would come home from work, the house would always around 68 degrees and the stove might have hot coals in it. After about a week or two of this, I told the ex to make sure she filled the stove before going to work. Her reply was that the stove was always half full and the kids would add the extra when they got home from school. After about a month of this and knowing I had to fill the furnace several times a day on the weekend, I soon realized that a month earlier the wife and I went to a party and knowing we might be late, I turned up the thermostat to something like 68 degrees. Yep! You guessed it… I set the thermostat at 68 a month earlier and never turned it down after that. The kids and the ex never did put any wood in the furnace in over a month.
As far as the foster kids and the stories… Trust me many of those kids would change places with your kids in a second and think 60 some degrees in a real house with a bed and food on the table was a dream.
What happened with my posting was my fault. I just put a heater on the log splitter came in and read your posting. I started to laugh thinking that I had done the same thing years earlier. I still get bouts with the Lyme so I type out my reply on word and do a copy and paste. I wrote about being a foster parent and then wrote the following….
What you should have done when you came home is say… “Who wants Ice Cream” and watch how fast those kids jumped off the couch and forget about the cold. But being in a rush I didn’t copy the full thing. After that I read about someone one wrote about how the weeks before you wrote about it being too warm for fire. Again I thought it was funny but I did not reply because I went out side. I had plans to edit my fist comment later.
If you look back at my posting and comments, I have never said one bad thing about anyone over the years. I’m sorry to say, I do not live in a glass house.. I came from a strong Polish background and I’ll be the first to go without to help my fellow man. I believe the best gift one could give is the ones they do not take credit for.
I am one of the lucky ones… To many, I have nothing… and those who know me would like to walk in my shoes. While you were having thoughts of what I may have been thinking and posting some silly remarks, I was outside splitting some of my wood in to smaller pieces to give to someone who has less than me.
I should send your wife a rep for taking you out and relax a bit. We all need to have a time out or the stress could kill us.
Once again, I meant no disrespect in my posting. I’m sorry if you had a bad day. I would have responded to your comments earlier but I was busy and never gave it another thought. .
Don't forget to turn back down the thermostat
John
umpkin2: :
I ,,,I,,,flipped on the L.P. furnace..
