Wood-burning stove – Fragments from Floyd

Wood Heat is Wonderful But Here Comes the Sun

March 3, 2015March 3, 2015 by fred

So we are on the downhill side of winter at last, or at least can see the light–or more to the point, feel the heat–at the end of the tunnel. And I have to say I will miss the wood heat and I will not. To have a morning free of that familiar ritual will … Read more

Chop Wood, Carry Water

January 16, 2014 by fred

Buying that first wood stove in 1975 was a pragmatic decision–an option we really could not refuse. Fuel oil was 17 cents a gallon. Our first monthly bill in the old house on Withers Road in Wytheville was 300-something dollars when I made $10k. I awoke in the middle of a winter’s night to hear … Read more

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