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| osbornefarms |
Posted - Jan 15 2012 : 09:18:46 AM
I don't think there is any better heat than wood. I never thought I would be heating my house and cooking on wood stove. But four years ago I made that chose to live off the grid. I'm so happy I would never go back. I love life on the farm . |
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| Kim L. |
Posted - Jan 17 2012 : 03:54:11 AM
I love wood heat -- my Grandparents heated their home with it and it always reminds me of them. Love the smell:)
Welcome Leslea! I am in east TN (Knoxville/Sevierville).
~Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.~
Mother Teresa
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| osbornefarms |
Posted - Jan 16 2012 : 6:39:56 PM
Kristin Sherrill I live between Nashville and Chatt in a little town called Morrison. |
| kristin sherrill |
Posted - Jan 16 2012 : 09:37:23 AM
Yep, I just spent about an hour bringing in wood for my fireplace. It's supposed to rain a little so wanted to get some inside before. I like my wood heat too but it sure is alot of work. Which I need because I feel better after doing this.
Welcome to the forum by the way! Where are you in Tn? I am right below Chatt.
Kris
Happiness is simple. |
| forgetmenot |
Posted - Jan 16 2012 : 09:27:26 AM
Oh, how I miss the wood heat! We heated with wood for 10 years. The only 10 years of my life when my bones were completely warmed and pain free. Now we have propane. (next best) Lucky you. If you don't have one, try to get a log splitter. We think we would still be heating with wood if we hadn't killed backs doing by hand.
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the belief that something is more important than fear." Ambrose Red Moon |
| Alee |
Posted - Jan 16 2012 : 05:14:45 AM
Welcome to the forum, Leslea! I am jealous of your wood heat. Our house is heated by propane.
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
www.farmgirlalee.blogspot.com
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| rough start farmgirl |
Posted - Jan 16 2012 : 03:16:52 AM
We heat our home with a wood stove, too. It warms everything, the floor, the countertops, the chairs. Forced air just makes my face hot and the sound of the heater running and running tends to make me anxious. IT always wakes me up ... of course, the squeak of the wood stove door awakens me too! But, that sound tends to make me feel pampered by my dh who is tending the fire while I am curled up all toasty!
Marianne |
| Bear5 |
Posted - Jan 15 2012 : 11:51:32 AM
Welcome to MJF forum. I love a wood heat. Cozy!
Marly
"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had." Elisabeth Kurler-Ross |
| 22angel |
Posted - Jan 15 2012 : 11:06:08 AM
I'm always so jealous of the smell down the street - they have a woodstove, and it always reminds of winter at "home". In the old house we grew up in, it had this giant old woodstove, and from the time harvest was done til we couldn't climb through the bush due to the amount of snow, we had to go cut wood. But it's such nice heat & smells so good! On of my dreams is to be able to have a woodstove in my own home. Some year....
Life isn't about finding yourself. It's about creating yourself.
"When I grow up, I want to be dirt." seen on a box through construction in Wyoming 2010 |
| vegetarian farmer |
Posted - Jan 15 2012 : 09:28:51 AM
Welcome from another off grid farmer. I agree there is nothing better.
http://hardworkhomestead.blogspot.com/ |
| GirlwithHook |
Posted - Jan 15 2012 : 09:23:53 AM
Welcome! It sounds like you made the right decision. :)
A hook, a book, and a good cup of coffee.... |
