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| Photos: Muffy Aldrich |
Grandmother's Spode and my great aunts sterling, both from England. And a last minute load of kiln dried fire wood, already stacked and standing ready in the wood shed.
Stay safe everyone!
Saturday, January 24, 2026
Two Different Flavors of Storm Prep
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A lot of heat goes up the chimney when you burn wood and it’s colder than 40 degrees outside.
ReplyDeleteNot with a wood burning stove!
DeleteMakes me feel cosy just looking at these two photographs. I spent lunchtime in our favourite coffee shop with our little dog eating warm scones with jam (sorry jelly) and clotted cream off bone china in front of a roaring log fire!
ReplyDeleteI miss weathering winter storms in New England. I am in Austin now. Most houses in Texas were built without any thought given to cold weather. Many pipes are in outside walls, and one must leave faucets connected to those pipes dripping to avoid freezing and burst pipes. Three straight days in the twenties will use a lot of water, even at a thin trickle. The idea of a valve to drain the system intrigued our plumber. He thought it was a great idea and would not be too hard to install. Of course, unless you vacate the premises, that idea is a nonstarter.
ReplyDeleteCheers. Stay warm and safe.
We have multiple fireplaces in our home. We burn 10 or 12 cords of wood every winter. All of the wood comes from the fallen trees on the farm. We bought a 40 ton log splitter and the guys who help us on the farm spend a big chunk of the summer cutting up, splitting and stacking the wood in the big shed that we have behind the house. It’s a big part of life here. Nothing quite like going out fox hunting on a cold day and coming home to a big pot of soup and sit by the fire in the evening. We liight the fireplace every night in the bedroom before we go to sleep. I’m up once or twice throughout the night to put logs on the fire. Really makes winter enjoyable
ReplyDeleteIs there anyone who doesn’t love an always ever changing, elemental, “roaring” fire? But Anon 2:53 is right.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful dishes, do you hand wash?
ReplyDeleteIf they are sufficiently old, as these are, yes.
DeleteThe way life should be! Cheers, and thank you.
ReplyDeleteThe last photo rang home for me. As a boy-young teenager (late 80s), we would get two loads of wood delivered (Tasmanian Gum). My task was to chop it and store it in our single car garage where my mum's 240 GL bottle green parked. The job took 3 hours.
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