UPDATE !
Wednesday :
Stove 2, Me 1
Thursday: Stove 0, Me 1
Behold my chuckles of glee - but of course there is plenty of scope for the stove to fight back :-0
It has reduced me to alternating delight, incandescent rage and despair on some days, but it is wonderful once safely burning. .............
It gives me whole-hearted admiration for homesteaders who had to tend animals, family, home and crops as well as the stove - mine is nearly a full time occupation in itself, but I suppose/hope it gets easier as you get more used to it.
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War has been declared.
It is a battle to the death.
It is me v the stove.......
After an hour of sitting next to it, cossetting the flames, adding more wood, the wretched thing went out ! The hulking big logs just failed to catch fire, despite loads of flames in the stove....
Aaaaaagh.
So it was round to the Petrol station to buy a big bag of kindling and some more firelighter sticks.
I will not be defeated.
Current score:-
Stove 2
Me 3
And the stove is still alight. Whether it will be by the time I get back from picking the children up from school is anybody`s guess, though !
6 comments:
We have a woodstove, too! I love it and I don't love it. It is so cozy, but so much work. Enjoy.
Not bad odds Elizabeth. Glad you are beating the stove in the war. Keep at it. It will be worth it.
But I must say, the vision of you wrestling with a stove to keep it alight just makes me smile!
How did it go?
We once stayed in a rustic cabin with a cooking wood stove. I quickly discovered why the pioneers only had one hot meal a day.
I'm enjoying the battle. Hope each day gets better.
Oooh, an update!
Haha! This is wonderful. I know the feeling of having something that doesn't fit into our modern lives of convenience but which is well worth the additional effort. Sadly, my experience doesn't stretch to a real stove but you enjoy it, my dear.
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