This crap is getting old… REALLY OLD!
I get out’a bed ‘round 5:00 AM every day… every morning I look at the thermostat and its been ‘round 67[sup]o[/sup](ish) in the house… so I pour a cup of coffee (auto-brew at 4:50 AM), walk down the steps and light a fire in my little wood furnace. I leave the damper ‘bout ½ open for half-an-hour or so, until the house warms to 69[sup]o[/sup](ish), and then go down and close it so as not to over heat the house. When I leave for work ‘round 8:00 the house is in the 71[sup]o[/sup]-72[sup]o[/sup](ish) range.
There has only been two days so far this year that the wife has added any wood to the furnace, and that was near a month ago, she just lets it go cold during the day. So………
I get home ‘round 5:30 PM every day… every evening I look at the thermostat and its been ‘round 71[sup]o[/sup](ish) in the house… so I change cloths, drink a beer or two, eat supper, and whatnot. ‘Round 7:00 or so it cools enough that I walk down the steps and light another fire in my little wood furnace. When I head in for bed ‘round 9:00-10:00 the house is in the 71[sup]o[/sup]-72[sup]o[/sup](ish) range.
And the cycle continues… day, after day, after day I’m lighting two fires in a cold firebox. Twice-a-day I’m screwing around with the light-the-fire-stuff, and fiddlin’ with the damper, and ya’da’, ya’da’ ya’da’. I’m burnin’ elm from standing-dead right now, rarely fillin’ the firebox full, so I never get a good bed of coals, and the furnace just goes flat cold between fires.
This lightin’ the fire crap is getting REALLY OLD!
And they’re sayin” near 50[sup]o[/sup] on Saturday… Really? 50[sup]o[/sup] for New Years?
Well, if’n it gets that warm I probably won’t need to light the second fire that day…
Don’t get me wrong… the mild weather is nice and all…
But we’re in this two-fires-a-day zone… if it would just cool-down by 5[sup]o[/sup] I could have a low fire goin’ 24/7 and just toss some splits on the coals morning and night.
This lightin’ the fire crap is getting REALLY OLD!
I get out’a bed ‘round 5:00 AM every day… every morning I look at the thermostat and its been ‘round 67[sup]o[/sup](ish) in the house… so I pour a cup of coffee (auto-brew at 4:50 AM), walk down the steps and light a fire in my little wood furnace. I leave the damper ‘bout ½ open for half-an-hour or so, until the house warms to 69[sup]o[/sup](ish), and then go down and close it so as not to over heat the house. When I leave for work ‘round 8:00 the house is in the 71[sup]o[/sup]-72[sup]o[/sup](ish) range.
There has only been two days so far this year that the wife has added any wood to the furnace, and that was near a month ago, she just lets it go cold during the day. So………
I get home ‘round 5:30 PM every day… every evening I look at the thermostat and its been ‘round 71[sup]o[/sup](ish) in the house… so I change cloths, drink a beer or two, eat supper, and whatnot. ‘Round 7:00 or so it cools enough that I walk down the steps and light another fire in my little wood furnace. When I head in for bed ‘round 9:00-10:00 the house is in the 71[sup]o[/sup]-72[sup]o[/sup](ish) range.
And the cycle continues… day, after day, after day I’m lighting two fires in a cold firebox. Twice-a-day I’m screwing around with the light-the-fire-stuff, and fiddlin’ with the damper, and ya’da’, ya’da’ ya’da’. I’m burnin’ elm from standing-dead right now, rarely fillin’ the firebox full, so I never get a good bed of coals, and the furnace just goes flat cold between fires.
This lightin’ the fire crap is getting REALLY OLD!
And they’re sayin” near 50[sup]o[/sup] on Saturday… Really? 50[sup]o[/sup] for New Years?
Well, if’n it gets that warm I probably won’t need to light the second fire that day…
Don’t get me wrong… the mild weather is nice and all…
But we’re in this two-fires-a-day zone… if it would just cool-down by 5[sup]o[/sup] I could have a low fire goin’ 24/7 and just toss some splits on the coals morning and night.
This lightin’ the fire crap is getting REALLY OLD!