It's cold outside, stove is on

[tallpaul]

I can't kill a deer on the Lazy Boy.

A few years back a friend n I went hunting deer in a new area on a bitter cold day. I convinced him to go to a local mart type store where we bought a couple bean bag chairs... they keep ya warm and comfy in the deer woods. I really need to get another one... the guys laughed at
us but we were able to sit all day where most could not- they weren't laughing so hard after.

As far as wood heat it is a nice heat. I use an outdoor burner and love that the house does not smell as smoke but I get it when I go feed the fire.

 

[Wayne02]

14 degrees here this AM. Woodstove is keeping the place nice and toasty as usual.

 

[truckemup97]

Those of you who complain of the smoke smell have a ventilation problem, or rather a lack of ventilation. I grew up with a wood stove and our house never smelled like smoke. With a small amount of outside air coming in, and the vents on the stove slightly open, and a warm flue, the smoke won't come into the house.

 

[JcMack]

It's gonna be a 2 dog night here tonight. If it gets any colder I'll have to get another dog.

 

[Spotteddog]

Well,
In keeping with the government's ceaseless march towards doing what's "best" for the children in it's charge, this. Apparently with the Seattle area having a week long below freezing period for it's nearly uninsulated housing stock to contend with, the week long azure blue cloudless skies were just too much for the bureaucrats to resist. Solution to cold, clear, cloudless weather? A burn ban in the county just north of Seattle! There's a price to be paid when the EPA becomes a hydra.
http://www.mindszenty.org/report/2009/JUL09.pdf

 

[500 Magnum Nut]

It's gonna be a 2 dog night here tonight. If it gets any colder I'll have to get another dog.

Good one.

 

[gunlovingirl]

Turning cold here. Still windy too. The wind snapped in half the huge Christmas tree downtown in front of the state capital. I think it was sabotage by the "holiday" tree group!

 

[Engineer1911]

AC time

Drove from the southside to the north side of Augusta, GA at noon time going to the indoor range. Windy, sunny, and miserably muggy -- heck with it -- rolled up the windows and turned on the air conditioner. Sinuses opened right up after 3 minutes of cool, clean air. Weatherman says 29° F tomorrow morning.

 

[Pete99004]

HEADS UP ALL...the wife has decided we have had enough of these below zero nights and 8 degree high for the day weather patterns and have decided that it simply needs to go!! So as of tomorrow we are going to ship it east - (that means just about all of you will get to share...please forgive us).

 

[500 Magnum Nut]

HEADS UP ALL...the wife has decided we have had enough of these below zero nights and 8 degree high for the day weather patterns and have decided that it simply needs to go!! So as of tomorrow we are going to ship it east - (that means just about all of you will get to share...please forgive us).

AAHH Your the one that's trying to ruin a nice shootin' weekend....

 

[Onomea]

I recall, when I was 11 or so, living in what was then rural northern Va, one of my jobs was to track down firewood in winter. So, if there was snow, I'd cinch on my dad's WWII wool pants with the elastic cuffs, grab an axe and a dog, and off I'd go.

In the woods on our property there were a fair amount of fallen trees, and I'd chop 'em up with the axe, which my dad had taught me how to use, including comments about six-toed feet on careless axe men, and then I'd tie a bundle of logs together with a rope, and drag 'em back home through the snow.

We had a furnace, too, but we liked the fireplace a lot. That house was built in the 1800s, and that chimney sure could draw.

 

[Wayne02]

17 here this AM, 14 yesterday. I put a heat lamp on the hummingbird feeder to try and keep it from freezing, but it still freezes up overnight.

 

[Spotteddog]

Yeah I hear ya' Wayne!
That's what I meant about Gregoire's EPA gestapo telling Sno/King/Pierce counties "wood burn ban"! These freakin' dopes seem to think the atmosphere is trapped under a terrarium's dome, and will forever make their clothing smell of (gasp!) burning wood?