{"id":1155,"date":"2008-12-16T07:52:41","date_gmt":"2008-12-16T13:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromthefrontporch.com\/WPBlog\/?p=1155"},"modified":"2023-09-18T12:13:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T19:13:32","slug":"we-love-our-woodstove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2008\/12\/we-love-our-woodstove\/","title":{"rendered":"We love our woodstove"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Dec08\/WS500333.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"333\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 333px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By &#8220;we&#8221;, I mean Bob and I&#8230;Karl would be happy if the thing stayed stone cold and the heat off&#8230;  I didn&#8217;t always appreciate a woodstove.  When I as a young teen, my dad decided to put a woodstove in our basement to provide supplemental heat.  Being a mechanical engineer, the project was exhaustingly researched, the stove acquired and installed and then the fun began &#8211; getting wood.  It was fun the first few times&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>After spending 13 years in sunny California, when I moved to Montana and back to a four season climate, one of the things that I wanted was a woodstove in my house.  All my houses have had woodstoves or converted fireplaces.  And even though it is messy and work getting wood &#8211; I don&#8217;t cut, but I do split, stack and move it around &#8211; I do love both the heat and cheeriness of a woodstove going.  <\/p>\n<p>In this house, the stove is a Vermont Castings Vigilante, circa 1977.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Dec08\/WS1977500333.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"333\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 333px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is fairly small but in this little house, I have to be careful I don&#8217;t get it running too hot.  All stoves have their idiosyncracies and outside\/inside temp affect how they will burn.  The first year, the first time I closed it up to burn hot through the night, I woke sweating -the entire house over 80 degrees.  I have since learned how to (mostly) manage it to keep it comfortable, but occasionally it gets away from me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Dec08\/WSBobFloor500333.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"333\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 333px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Dec08\/WSBobOttoman500333.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"333\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 333px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Dec08\/WSBobOttomanClose500333.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"333\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 333px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When the cat is &#8220;sunning&#8221; himself in front of the woodstove, particularly when it is from a distance on the ottoman, it is a good sign that maybe it is time to let the fire die back a bit&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Dec08\/WSKarl500333.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"333\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 333px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Karl prefers the coldest spot in the house, right in front of the slider with all that nice frigid air seeping in.<\/p>\n<p>Bob and I, we love our woodstove.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By &#8220;we&#8221;, I mean Bob and I&#8230;Karl would be happy if the thing stayed stone cold and the heat off&#8230; I didn&#8217;t always appreciate a woodstove. When I as a young teen, my dad decided to put a woodstove in our basement to provide supplemental heat. 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