A couple of days ago we started hearing a previously unknown fluttering sound coming from inside the wood stove chimney. Since the previous owners took their wood stove with them (yet another project: find new wood stove) what we have is the butt end of a stove pipe sticking out of the wall from which […]
Sarah along with her teen-aged daughter and two cords of firewood arrived from Vermont right on schedule yesterday afternoon, slowly hauling all that wood up our long gravel driveway in a big, blue Dodge Ram dump truck. Sarah is quite something. She operates the business with her boyfriend and there’s no messing around. But think […]
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Did I mention that the primary source of heat in our new farmhouse in Upstate New York is a wood stove? The house, just five years old, is extremely well constructed and well insulated. The previous owner was a builder. And apparently he and his family had planned to stay there a long time because […]
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