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I am so blown away!
 
Electric heaters be damned. I know there are those of you out there who are  
quite used to this lifestyle, but I am just now getting acclimated, after 
almost  four years.
 
Impending rain - and snow - here in the desert (it snowed in Barstow  today!) 
prompted me to bring in a bunch of the firewood I'd begun stacking  several 
weeks ago - didn't finish, as I had to go to the hospital coupla times.  Much 
wasted time. Lots of bad advice. Another whole story. ;(
 
Lemme tell ya! Ain't nothing compares to a good old-fashioned wood stove,  
thanks to my sincerely revered landlord, Jon! 
 
It is not often that I have to go looking for the boxes of wooden matches.  
Everything nowadays is 'click' and it's going already. There is something to 
be 
 said for the manual labor part of life. In my mind, this all ties in to 
recent  discussions on fitness...
 
I would not trade this woodstove for central heat or central air  
conditioning (although the latter might be debatable considering I'm  
post-menopausal and 
grumpy and uncomfortable from the git-go - ask me again in  July)  - the cats 
are all amazed - all of a sudden they don't have to  gather themselves up in 
a body-warmth-sharing heap in the middle of the bed,  only to be 
unsanctimoniously (sp?) scraped off in one fell swoop when I  decide I'm 
sleepy. 
 
My very nice neighbor from across the street asked a while back if I wanted  
to sell the new woodstove that's sitting out in one of Jon's boxcars. I had 
to 
 decline, since that particular stove was a Christmas gift from my daughter 
and  yes, I do have plans for it. When Jon comes home in April, we are going 
to 
swap  out the stove I have now for the new one that was a gift. It is of a 
different  configuration, but he has a great knowledge of stovepipes, and 
drafts 
and such.  I trust that it will be properly done. 
 
Hadda share.
 
Sandy
Mid-Mojave
Who watched the sun going down to the west, and the Newberry/Rodman  
Mountains to the south bedazzled with snow-capped peaks, glinting all the  
colors of 
the rainbow - 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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