In general smaller pieces, both in length and girth, will burn more easily so if you are having trouble getting a good fire going try splitting your wood smaller. Over the past few years we have found that large pieces of wood burn slowly and it can be awkward to load more logs in ...
Real masonry fireplaces require a heavy-duty concrete foundation to bear and distribute the significant weight of the fireplace and chimney. They’re almost always built where a home is under new construction (a new home or major addition). Traditionally, these fireplaces burn wood but, because ...
An ash pan, which needs to be cleaned just once a week, collects unburned pellets and combustion residue. The flame created by a stove is worry-free; you don’t need to tend it as you would logs burning in a fireplace since it is sealed unit. The only additional maintenance required ...
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Not one window broke in this wood Victorian, including the fireplace logs leaning against the house. Maybe the recently watered grass and trees that surround the house, maybe the wind changed or maybe the fire gods didn’t need it on their march, doing what they do, burn, burn, burn. ...
So, when it came to be our time in the wilds there was a veritable plethora of ill fitting, worn and faded camouflage and canvas coats, boots that required a couple layers of socks to even remotely fit, and old guns with only the faintest traces of bluing left to remark upon their ...
But in some colder climates,winterdoesn't escape polluted air either – though, in this case, it's not ozone but tiny particulates that degrade the air quality, such as fromwood smoke out of a fireplace. Idling cars todefrost or keep them warmalso increases the amount of air pollution, ...
But not a single season goes by, not a single hunt, not a single day in the wilds, that some part of this grand tradition, this magnificent world, does not etch itself in my memory, burn itself into my soul, waiting there for its turn to play out across a page. How blessed I am...
by those who attend to internal nourishing. As for the proper inner breath, it is called the Embryonic Breath. Since it is naturally inside, you do not have to seek outside for it. If you do not have a good teacher's secret oral method, you will work long and hard, yet in vain....
wood was good and dry hardwood. It looked like oak to me. Oak makes a great fire but it is hard to get it started. Now, keep in mind that while I have been prepping the van mechanically, I have given no thought about providing the van with the tools needed to have things like a...