No thermostat heating for us, no sir, we like to do things the hard way.
You know the saying “Wood heats you twice…once when you get it and once when you burn it?” How about when you stack it and/or split and move it? For all the time we’ve lived in Oregon, we’ve always heated with wood. There were times when we had so little wood we’d gather it off the beach. We’d bring it home, split it, only to find it was too wet to burn. Since we’ve lived here so long, the trees have grown up around us and now we have the option to cut on our own land.
Cat wants to help
Stacked up in sun to air out
Daughter is driving the power wagon…the closest thing to a real tractor that I’ll ever have.
Splitting wood the easy way…letting your adult children do the heavy lifting.
Garbanzo bean and veggie soup cooking on the wood cook stove…tea water always hot.
When our old stove wore out, we wanted to get a stove that would heat the house AND cook our food if needed. We looked at some fancy catalogs, saw some very nice nickle-plated stoves and stoves that would heat a 24 gal. tank of water, but with our smaller space, we settled on the Baker’s Choice. We can cook on the 6 sq. ft surface, bake in the oven, and heat the whole house. The firebox is big enough to hold 10″ diameter wood. While I miss seeing the warm glow of the fire, this stove heats the house and cooks very well.
Big Eddy enjoys the heat.
15 year old Cody appreciates the warmth.
Adventures in Natural Beekeeping 
Your pets have both chosen seats that complement their colouring very well. My cat likes lying under our radiators or snuggling up under a duvet or blanket with me.
The old dog (not me) sits next to my wife. The pets love her…and avoid me. That’s okay, I figure if I put up with them, she will put up with me.
He he 🙂 My cat isn’t fussy about who he snuggles up with, any warm body will do.
I was just thinking to myself that you hadn’t posted for a while, so I checked in to take a look and it looks like I missed this one.
Your right, I’d say wood warms you up three or four times if you are harvesting yourself; chopping down, chopping up and probably moving it a couple of times as well before you get to burn it. Great stove by the way, Eddy and Cody have the right idea. Good to have the water simmering for a quick brew
I’ve been busy…our temps were cold at night, but up into “bee flying temps” in the day…and when the bees are flying, I’m shooting videos.
I was looking at your temps last week that were in the single digits F. or (got to check my converter app.) -14 C. and that was the high…and you’re walking the dogs in it!
Beleive it or not…we live in central FL and heat with wood. I love it…even cook on it when the day is cool enough for a fire…and you are right …it does heat you more than once or twice. I have a question…do you find the woodsmoke any problem around the bees?
The bees are out away from the house so I don’t think they are affected too much. We’re lucky because we have trees on three sides of us (no close neighbors) or I’d feel bad about them eating our smoke. Also we don’t burn at night so it doesn’t smolder all night.