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osbornefarms
True Blue Farmgirl

94 Posts

Leslea
tn
USA
94 Posts

Posted - Jan 15 2012 :  09:18:46 AM  Show Profile
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 .

GirlwithHook
True Blue Farmgirl

922 Posts

Alyce
Madison WI
USA
922 Posts

Posted - Jan 15 2012 :  09:23:53 AM  Show Profile
Welcome! It sounds like you made the right decision. :)



A hook, a book, and a good cup of coffee....
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vegetarian farmer
True Blue Farmgirl

249 Posts

Jane
Freedom pa
USA
249 Posts

Posted - Jan 15 2012 :  09:28:51 AM  Show Profile
Welcome from another off grid farmer. I agree there is nothing better.

http://hardworkhomestead.blogspot.com/
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22angel
True Blue Farmgirl

498 Posts

Pam
Manitoba
Canada
498 Posts

Posted - Jan 15 2012 :  11:06:08 AM  Show Profile
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
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Bear5
True Blue Farmgirl

13055 Posts


Louisiana/Texas
USA
13055 Posts

Posted - Jan 15 2012 :  11:51:32 AM  Show Profile
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
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rough start farmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl

3331 Posts

marianne
The Beautiful Pacific NW Washington State
USA
3331 Posts

Posted - Jan 16 2012 :  03:16:52 AM  Show Profile
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
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl

22944 Posts



22944 Posts

Posted - Jan 16 2012 :  05:14:45 AM  Show Profile
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
www.allergyjourneys.blogspot.com
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forgetmenot
True Blue Farmgirl

3602 Posts

Judith
Nora Springs IA
USA
3602 Posts

Posted - Jan 16 2012 :  09:27:26 AM  Show Profile
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
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl

11303 Posts

kristin
chickamauga ga
USA
11303 Posts

Posted - Jan 16 2012 :  09:37:23 AM  Show Profile
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.
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osbornefarms
True Blue Farmgirl

94 Posts

Leslea
tn
USA
94 Posts

Posted - Jan 16 2012 :  6:39:56 PM  Show Profile
Kristin Sherrill I live between Nashville and Chatt in a little town called Morrison.
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Kim L.
True Blue Farmgirl

162 Posts

Kimberly
Knoxville TN
USA
162 Posts

Posted - Jan 17 2012 :  03:54:11 AM  Show Profile
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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