Monday, December 23, 2013

Woodstoves are Nice

Woodstoves are nice.  I'm thankful we have one. Free heat (at least if you're not the one chopping the wood).  They make everything cozy.  They work even when the electricity is out. 

But sometimes the woodstove and I....we just don't get along.  The wood doesn't to burn.  It taunts me.  I grumble and fuss and beg. 
But that only happens rarely, when I get wood that is too green...or too something.  So mostly woodstoves are nice.  If only they didn't make such a mess.  The little bits of debris that get all over my floors and carpets from the wood.  It drives me nuts.  Look at all that mess!  All.winter.long.  I vacuum it up and ten seconds later....all messy again. 

Okay, okay, back to woodstoves are nice.  Focus on the positive, right? 

Is it spring yet? 

31 comments:

  1. Sunnybrook FarmDecember 23, 2013 at 6:15 AM

    That is a nice stove, I haven't seen one like it. We don't actually have a wood stove I guess, it is more of a furnace that I put in the cellar with duct work attached. Since it is in the cellar, all the mess is kept down there on a concrete floor. I cut wood at the end of winter so it is ready for the next season. It is hard to burn green wood unless you already have a hot fire to put it in. I like the smell especially if I am burning some cherry. Had enough rain yet?

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  2. Ginny HartzlerDecember 23, 2013 at 7:10 AM

    Yours is really big and tall. Is that a cooking burner on the top? Wood stoves are GOOD! No others seem safe to me. A friend's son's house just burned down and he lost everything, including his cat. Due to an electric space heater.

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  3. Steve SurrattDecember 23, 2013 at 7:57 AM

    My earliest memories are of my grandma cooking with a wood oven and multiple wood stoves over the big family farmhouse. The house always smelled of smoke and the food smelled of smoke. It was too much. Now I actually despise the smell of wood-smoke. I guess it was too much of a good thing.

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  4. Coloring Outside the LinesDecember 23, 2013 at 8:12 AM

    That stove is so pretty! We have a pellet stove which works great, but it isn't the same as wood heat. And I have to clean it out every other day...blechh.

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  5. Tina Fariss BarbourDecember 23, 2013 at 8:38 AM

    That is a very pretty stove! We had a plain pot-bellied stove when I was growing up. I would sit by it to read or do homework. Such a comforting heat!

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  6. Out on the prairieDecember 23, 2013 at 9:01 AM

    They are messy, I have mine outdoors. I get free kindling from a local high school shop class.

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  7. GardenOfDaisiesDecember 23, 2013 at 9:35 AM

    What a lovely little wood stove. It seems much smaller (narrower) than the one's I remember from my days in the pacific northwest.

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  8. AnonymousDecember 23, 2013 at 9:53 AM

    Once I lived with a wood stove. HATED it. Never again, thank God!

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  9. BarbaraDecember 23, 2013 at 10:31 AM

    Oh but I bet they are so cozy!

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  10. LynnDecember 23, 2013 at 10:37 AM

    I remember that mess from the wood and kindling sticks and the ashes when cleaning the darn thing but I'd love one now :-) not cold enough here but still..I love the look of the wood stacked along the veranda, looks cozy. Have a wonderful Christmas.

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  11. TexWisGirlDecember 23, 2013 at 10:45 AM

    yup, my floor is the same with added muddy dog footprints. :)

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  12. Gail DixonDecember 23, 2013 at 11:11 AM

    Oooohhh, the mess would drive me insane, but better to be warm, I guess. It's a trade-off. We have the fake wood fireplace that looks pretty all the time; however, I don't think it's as warm as yours probably is.

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  13. JeanneDecember 23, 2013 at 12:11 PM

    We put our wood stove on a big rock base, and voila, much less mess. Or at least mess that you can see. HOpe that you have a wonderful Christmas and know your boys are excited. Enjoy the warmth and coziness of that fire!

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  14. L.L.EDecember 23, 2013 at 1:14 PM

    That's quite the wood stove you have there! I don't enjoy the mess either but the toasty, warm, free heat it puts out makes it worth it for sure!

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  15. WillowDecember 23, 2013 at 1:38 PM

    Ha Ha ... I know huh ~
    but yes, wood stoves are nice :)

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  16. Our Neck of the WoodsDecember 23, 2013 at 1:38 PM

    Yes, focus on the positive! I'd love to have a woodstove. I especially like that it works even without electricity. Would be great since our power goes out quite a bit in the country.

    But I am ready for spring as well!

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  17. Chatty CroneDecember 23, 2013 at 2:43 PM

    I have a couple friends that have these and the think that they are pretty awesome too.
    Stay warm.
    Merry Christmas.
    sandie

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  18. Karen thisoldhouse2.comDecember 23, 2013 at 3:00 PM

    LOL.. I hear ya. We have one of the fireplaces going on most cold nights, and yep, it makes a mess.

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  19. Tweedles -- that's meDecember 23, 2013 at 3:02 PM

    we love wood stoves and wish we had one!
    yours is beauitiful!
    love
    tweedles

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  20. MichaeleDecember 23, 2013 at 3:28 PM

    Nothing like wood heat. Nothing.

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  21. SallyDecember 23, 2013 at 3:44 PM

    This makes me miss my grandmother and her wood stove; she cooked on hers also. :)

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  22. Grandma BonnieDecember 23, 2013 at 5:00 PM

    Your wood stove looks great. I can remember as a teenager having to add wood to our stove in the morning to get the chill out of the kitchen. We used it back then to cut heating costs.

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  23. Grandma BonnieDecember 23, 2013 at 5:01 PM

    Oh yes, I forgot to wish you a very Merry Christmas. Stay safe and warm.

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  24. jp@A Green RidgeDecember 23, 2013 at 6:42 PM

    We always kept a dustpan & broom close-by ours and only thing I really never liked was the dust they made and that controlling the temp was difficult...:)JP

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  25. AnonymousDecember 23, 2013 at 9:47 PM

    I haven't had a wood stove, but did have a wood fireplace some years ago and the floor around it was always a mess. I feel your pain. Wishing you and your family a perfect Christmas this year, XOX

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  26. LindaDecember 23, 2013 at 10:12 PM

    We have a small one and I'm comforted knowing it's there in case the power goes out.

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  27. Marie December 23, 2013 at 11:51 PM

    My grandparents had a wood stove. :) It was in the 80's here today. :)

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  28. Thistle Cove FarmDecember 24, 2013 at 7:35 PM

    What a pretty and functional stove. Really like the upper part where a kettle can be kept warm. I put wood on the back porch a couple of months ago so it's nice and dry. It's been curing for a while so just needed to keep it dry.
    Merry Christmas.

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  29. Sonya @ Under the Desert SkyDecember 24, 2013 at 8:52 PM

    Always seems like a nice thing to have, if you're not the one cleaning up or chopping the wood.

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  30. born imaginative.December 25, 2013 at 9:44 PM

    I love that stove. There's nothing like the warm heat wood gives off.

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  31. Busy Bee SuzDecember 26, 2013 at 1:36 PM

    LOL! The mess would drive me batty....but think of all the $$ you are saving.

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