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12:21 am on January 6th, 2010
Today… in the sauna at the gym.
12:43 am on January 6th, 2010
Ah! The problem is I am
freezing most of the time
and ashamed to say I am
from the midwest but
now live in California and
just so cold here in Pasadena.
12:44 am on January 6th, 2010
Fave moments of being all snuggly warm during cold weather season is when the furnace kicks on and the kids and I will run and get a blanket, throw it over the register, grab a book then snuggle in for some toasty moments.
GT’s!!!!!!!!
-Grace
12:47 am on January 6th, 2010
It’s not calories that give you energy, but the electrical charge of the food. example: sprouts eaten before exercise gives you the energy to exercise and you don’t go down fast like sugar which leaves you high one minute and go down the next. sprouts is more even pace all through the exercise. sprouts has about 275 megahertz of energy. If you put sprouts under a killians camera you see sparks everywhere, energy packed. Ph water you put a probe in the water and a light bulb lights up from the energy.
As for being warm I have a eden pure It”s not a dry heat. Its a even heat.
12:50 am on January 6th, 2010
Hi Kevin,
I believe that wood burning stoves are carbon intensive relative to heating with natural gas. Not only do they emit more greenhouse gas but require trees for their fuel.
1:01 am on January 6th, 2010
Thank you Kevin for the great tip with the honey & water while training for longs run. i will be starting a trail running group this weekend and training for a 15 mile run to do by april 10th.
Blessings to you and Annmarie
1:09 am on January 6th, 2010
Totally off the subject…but what do you and Anne Marie drink for water ?
Tap ? I hope not . Filtered ?
What kind of filter ?
Reverse osmosis ?
Floride is such a bad chemical for people .
Just wondering what you do for quality water .
Wood burning stoves ? Oh Ouch ! So bad for
your lungs…and they can be dangerous .
See….you already burned yourself .
Thank goodness that stove is only for short term use .
Be careful !
1:13 am on January 6th, 2010
So fun to see you in Vermont. You are both so modest — you totally rocked on the Best of Raw…You showed in 9 categories!!!! I feel that I am more excited than the two of you. Best Outreach is awesome! Not to mention best TV – so deserved.
You really are ready for a place of your own. I hear it as you talked about having a cast iron stove. I think a stove can be apart of a sustainable home heating plan. I love straw bale construction the best. Great insulation is the way to go…
Looking forward to your surprise with Wolfe.
I love wearing vests, warm socks and spicy teas during cold weather days. We have had some cool days in San Diego.
Summertime in S.A. No cold weather for me…
Dawni
1:14 am on January 6th, 2010
Good news Kevin and Ann Marie – I just happen to have a pot belly stove for sale or trade – never been used and for sale or trade…the glitch…gotta stop in North Platte, NE to get it! Favorite story probably unlike any others..calving season, in the midst of a blizzard…bundled up at out searching for calves lost from their mother…carrying baby calves half froze hundreds of feet in snow as deep as I am tall to get them to the warm barn and with their momma! Mind you these baby calves weigh about 80 pounds too. Their all safe and warm now and its my turn..stoke that fire, gettin her roaring and a hot cup of tea in candle light with warm gloves on my hands. No more baby calves, no more meat on the table …but still fond memories of doin’ what it takes to help em’ stay alive! Nancy
1:24 am on January 6th, 2010
Hi AnneMarie and Kevin,
I love kale chips and wonder if there’s any nutrition left in them after so many hours of dehydrating? I have a feeling they aren’t beneficial, but also aren’t detrimental to our health. If eaten as an alternative to potato chips, kale chips are definitely better. Do you know if they have any nutritional value? Thanks!
2:03 am on January 6th, 2010
First off, Thank you for being so commited to doing a show every single day even under hard circumstances! I appreciate all the hard work and passion you both have. It’s great to see that there are people out there that share the same passion for ultimate health as I do…i’m excited to see what the you and David wolfe have in store! cant wait!..I’m a big supporter of you and Annemarie so keep up the great work.and as far as staying warm, i do love a cup of warm tea when its cold out, it just warms you up from the inside out.
2:37 am on January 6th, 2010
Muh haha! I was in Canada and am now in Brisbane where it’s summer!!! beautiful weather, warm rains, sun and more sun! Feel warm yet?
3:07 am on January 6th, 2010
We had a Franklin wood burning stove in our last house. It was great! I really miss it. It could be the couldest day outside and we had so much heat that we could open doors, therefore the air never got too dry. When the doors were closed we kept a large pot of water on the top of the stove for humidity.
The Franklin style wood stove had glass doors, so we had the ambiance of a fireplace. It also had a catalytic converter, which sopposedly made it burn more efficiently, thus having fewer polutants. the other nice thing about the Franklin was that it was flat on top, so we could actually heat water and other things on it.
One New Year’s eve the electricity went out. It stayed out for six days! We made breakfast for all of the neighbors on the second day. I used real dishes instead of paper plates. What was I thinking! It took all day to do dishes. I melted snow on the woodstove to wash and rinse the dishes with. Since then, I’ve been even more grateful to live in these days with modern conveniences and hot and cold running water
We were able to put the wood stove fairly close to the wall by putting a brick wall in with a vented space behind it that was lined with sheet metal, as I recall. It was very heavy, so we had to cut a hole into the floor and pour a cement foundation from the ground to the first floor.
The wood stove you showed us was really neat, but you may want one that is more functal.
Downside: Wood stoves are dirty and you bring a lot of bugs and spiders in the house.
Even with the mess, I have a lot of fond memories of having a wood stove.
The next best thing is steam heat. It’s a lot cleaner.
God bless!
Evelin
4:01 am on January 6th, 2010
Greetings from snowy and cold Finland (-20 Celsius right now), the land of many wood burning stowes and no penguins! My house is built in 1887, made of wood and I heat it with wood burning stoves and ovens. In here we think it’s cheap, healthy and ecological (in the carbon footprint test I’ve none in the part considering heating), so I’ve been pretty stunned when reading some people’s opinions about how dangerous it is to your health and other weird things. The wood used in heating is excess product when cutting trees for industry etc. Fire consumes oxygen, but replacement air (especially in old houses like mine) is no problem. There’s several different ways to make sure there will be enough air. I’ve been living in wood heated houses most of my life and my lungs are in excellent condition. I find the air inside here fresh compared to most houses. I’m cooking my food on living fire, not using electiricity, and the house gets warmer at the same time. And about bugs and such…an occasional spider is not a catastrophy, they are not so numerous…So I do warmly
recommend wood burning stowes.
And thank you Annmarie and Kevin for the inspiration and joy you bring into our lives!
Keep up the good work!
6:08 am on January 6th, 2010
Here in Nottingham, England we have a word for some of you…nesh. If you are nesh you don’t like the cold.
Exercise beats the cold and gets the circulation going warming up the extremeties. Eat well beforehand so you have the energy onboard.
Exercise is essential on a high raw vegan diet as I am. Yesterday I was out in the snow at our archery club’s wood. As I negotiated the course and shot the targets I found I quickly got warm, too warm in fact, I had to remove one layer.
My energy came from a bowl of raw porridge (made from organic oat groats) with fruit.
Can’t beat it
Jon
8:27 am on January 6th, 2010
I remember vacationing on Lake George in Canada one late fall, staying in a primitive cabin with a wood-burning cast iron stove/oven/furnace combo and using that both for heat and cooking – everything tasted so extra good! There was also an outdoor stone sauna that used wood to heat it up and that surely felt great. Back home we had a huge wood-burning fireplace made of local stone(with some locally collected fossils embedded and a mantel from an old barn beam – beautiful!)and just sitting on that warm (and now polished from all the sitting!)stone was the best kind of heat, especially after coming in from the snow and cold! The wood we used came from the pruning and trimming of perimeter trees, as well as the decayed and dying – both necessary and plentiful. That Osage Orange wood sure did “snap, crackle and pop” but it was also one of the warmest woods!
8:34 am on January 6th, 2010
I live in Iowa and we have been having really cold weather lately. (yesterday it was 11am before it warmed up to zero!) We are staying toasty warm with our corn stove. Ever heard of one of those?! We never had until we started researching the cost effectiveness of various heating sources.
Blessings!
Amy
8:42 am on January 6th, 2010
We have several examples of the old wood stove in the antique stores around Snowflake, AZ. They are also in the old homes around where we live; we have one but like others have stated they are not very functional. Meaning you have to get up when it is COLD and start the fire, it takes awhile for it to warm up and it goes out in a few hours. They are very messy; always having to clean up the dirt and bark off of the wood; having to chop the wood or purchase it and stack the wood and then have some means of keeping the wood out of the snow. Then there is chopping kindling-pine wood that has pitch enough to start the larger pieces on fire. It all sounds negative but it is fabulous as a back up heat source. I would never live in a place that had the possiblity of being snowed in without a wood burning stove. We have had several times when the electricity was off for several days at a time. We are still able to heat water for baths; cook beans or soups on top and heat our home. Other people have had to do without or be very uncomfortable without the use of a wood stove. We have a Blaze King as well as the cutsey nickle plated stove and a Lennox Furnace. The heat from the wood stove is sooo much nicer than the heat from the furnace. It warms you up faster and just seems more natural as it reminds me of camping out. Hope you find your nirvana.
8:51 am on January 6th, 2010
On another subject. Did you here that Matt Monarch’s youtube channel was suspended and they wiped out all his videos. Children’s youtube videos use the “F” word all the time. Apparently swearing and drugs and violence and ludicrous behavior is fine but eating naturally and shearing goodness is a youtube sin. My concern is are you are next and all the others that help people naturally. Back up your videos now while you have the chance. Codex is coming.
9:01 am on January 6th, 2010
Good morning Ski Bunnies!
Just wanted to let you know I recently purchased two antique, cast iron, wood burning stoves from the Historical Discrict near my house. My husband (a carpenter) and I are in the process of restoring a 150 year old home-very exciting:D
Thought I’d offer my sourcing services as an interior designer and let you know that when you’re ready to get a wood stove I’m sure I can track one down and have a cast iron or brass Buda fashioned for the top…what a great idea!
Thanks for keeping me and my family informed and healthy!
~Keep warm
9:11 am on January 6th, 2010
Favorite way to keep warm – snuggling under a blanket with a hot water bottle! I SWEAR it keeps me warm for hours and I prefer it over the dryness of central heat. Love it.
9:37 am on January 6th, 2010
Today you look like Peter Ragnar’s son.
10:02 am on January 6th, 2010
When I was a year and a half old, I lived in Bedford Indiana. One winter evening my siblings and I were huddled around the stove like the one in Vermont with you. I was sitting in a little rocking chair and one of my sisters bumped the chair which caused me to fall onto the stove. I caught my left eye on the draft knob. My eyesight is significantly diminished in that eye and I have suffered my life with a disfigured eyelid and surrounding tissue. Forced air seems a lot safer for children. Last month my best friend in Oregon along with his wife died of carbon monoxide poisoning. I suspect that he was using something of the sort for heat. One of the last things he told me was that it was really cold up there. Furnaces today have forced combustion air which reduces the chance of being poisioned by a build up of combustion air.
David
10:20 am on January 6th, 2010
Having just moved from Hawaii to Maryland, keeping warm is something I’m really big on this winter! I’ll snuggle up in front of the fireplace with the warmest fuzzy blanket in the house and a cup of Chai tea. It’s not raw, but it’s my saving grace against the cold.
10:28 am on January 6th, 2010
The house we lived in when I was growing up in Buffalo, had a large vent in the floor in the dining room. We would put gloves and hats on it to dry or heat up before you went outside. But I liked to stand on it when the air was on, it was so nice and warm.
One option on taking supplements, is to muscle test if you need them. I was taking MSM for awhile, but the past weeks, I don’t test positive for taking it anymore. Matter of fact, I find that I am not taking as many supplements as I used to do since starting green smoothies.
11:00 am on January 6th, 2010
Great show with alot of New info. Loved it. I wanted to add that I beleive the most important daily thing you can do is good alkaline water. Your body is 75% water and if you feed it daily with good water things fall into place with your body, most people are dehydrated and don’t even know it. Stay away from distilled and reverse osmosis water on a daily basis. Get a FREE report at http://www.youralkalinebody.com
Change you Water and You can Change your Life!
I have no experience with wood burning stoves. Sorry.
11:10 am on January 6th, 2010
I was lucky enough to live in the Great State of Maine my entire life, other than during a short tenure in Vermont, so have always had a wood stove in my homes. My favorite are the Hearth Stone soap stone stoves from Vermont. They really pump out the heat.
Glad to hear you and Ann Marie are getting to spend some “down” time in Vermont.
12:04 pm on January 6th, 2010
We had a blizzard roll in over this last Christmas, and I was inside (and warm!) with my parents and family while it was blowing and treacherous outside! It was the best place to be
Ok! I have a quick question: could you do a “how to rebuild your intestinal flora” post or video? Or maybe just address some key steps to do that… any literature that you feel could help? I’m really interested in things I should avoid and maybe things I should implement. Thanks!!
12:22 pm on January 6th, 2010
When my kids were small and I was a single mom, we had a wood-burning stove in our living room which was our sole source of heat. It had a cook top, so we cooked on it too on the weekends. I liked being able to leave a large pot of water on it so that we had humidity added to our air. Adding cloves and cinnamon to the water made for a pleasant atmosphere in our small home. Only problem we had was when we were new to having a wood stove, my oldest son who was 7 at the time, got his backside too close to the stove when he was trying to enjoy the heat. He couldn’t sit for a while until his seat healed. I felt very bad about that, but thankfully that was the only incident we had with the stove in the 8 years we used it.
12:31 pm on January 6th, 2010
Kevin and Annmarie I enjoy your candid program. I am warm right now escaping the WI winter here in AZ looking at the palm trees in the front yard. I love it! I also enjoy listening to your program every day. Keep up the good work and a happy and rewarding New Year to both of you!
1:20 pm on January 6th, 2010
Hi All,
I make Root Stew to keep warm…..it warms from the inside out…I feel fruits and vegetables should be eaten in their seasons … really works great….I Know its not raw but really is worth it….:)
Love you both!!
1:34 pm on January 6th, 2010
I love wood burning stoves. People sell the old ones on craigslist. just keep checking that and one will pop up. make sure you get one with a flat top so you can heat water. People use them in Alaska not only to heat there home but to cook with them as well. I use it to heat water for tea or just to drink hot water. sure warms me up
1:40 pm on January 6th, 2010
I saw in your previous video you said you liked the film avatar , I was so surprised as I thought you were conscious people. It is one of the evilest film ever made. http://www.infowars.com/alex-jones-reviews-avatar/ Please watch this.
1:57 pm on January 6th, 2010
When it is too cold to go outside, I love to cook up a storm and invite people over. They still have to go out in the cold to get here, but haven’t had any complaints yet.
We don’t have a woodstove but I love our wood-burning fireplace.
1:59 pm on January 6th, 2010
Hi..just wanted to comment on the question about what to eat while running or exercising…how about chewing chia seeds like the indians used to do (or still do?) or adding Chia gel to your drinking water. Because the chias regulate the blood sugar levels as well as help burn carbohydrates at a slower rate I think this would be ideal. I haven’t tried it out myself as I am just rediscovering chia myself…but it sounds promising and easy!
Blessings…Sallie
2:02 pm on January 6th, 2010
Living in the Pacific NW, we heat with a wood stove, the largest Blaze King. The advantages to a larger stove are that we fire it up in November and shut it down in April, and in the meantime it never goes out. It burns so hot that it is very clean, it’s large enough to put in whole logs minimizing chopping and splitting, very easy and hardly any mess. With the smaller stove you are using you have to start the fire daily and do a lot of chopping and splitting, which is also messier. Although it is adorable!
We love our wood stove! Our home is very warm and cozy all winter.
2:07 pm on January 6th, 2010
Kevin-
We are actually losing our woodburning stove for something more effecient
But it is ok because we have a big fireplace in our tavern 
Anyway I was hoping you could give me some tips for a recovery drink after working out. Thanks
2:32 pm on January 6th, 2010
Hi! We had a woodburning stove growing up, as my dad had grown up on a farm and missed the physical exercise, simplicity and connecting with the earth that comes from a farm. He also loved to save money, and we had a big house to heat in Ottawa. He connected the stove up so it circulated heat all through the house. Most Saturday mornings I was sitting like a nerd on the back of his Kubota tractor with a trailer behind, going to some farmer’s field who dad had spied had a tree fallen in a storm. He would chainsaw into logs, I would load. In the snow, in the cold. Then I would have to toboggan them down the side hill of the house to the back. He would chop and split, we would pile behind the house, hopefully a year in advance so it would be dry. Then we would take from there every day, a big boxful, to have inside for the day and load. The coals would all but die out overnight, and he would turn the heat way down, so I would wake up in the morning warm under a big quilt, but with a red nose. Jump to the bathroom and the little electric heater, but if the fire was stoked up and getting warmer, it was fun to dry my hair over the stove and hear the sizzles as the water hit the top of it in little drops. Dad would even take the wood by skidoo and the skidoo puller thing that was meant for taking people for rides. Once it got stuck in the river, the top layer of ice melted a bit. I remember thinking that everything that was supposed to be for fun in our family, e.g. toboggans, skidoos, things that skidoos pull, was used for work instead. But I too enjoy connecting with nature and the land, a lot more so than when I was a kid, and this wood stove and Saturday mornings are a fond memory for me.
4:01 pm on January 6th, 2010
I have lived most of my life with a wood burning stove. We currently have one in our dining room right near where I spend most of my day homeschooling my five kids. We switched out the old one for one that looks like the one you were showing Kevin. It doesn’t completely heat our 3200 SF. home but it heats up the kitchen/dining room area where we are usually hanging out. When the temperature dips below 65 we fire it up so we don’t have to use the oil burning furnace because like you said the radiant heat is great.
I even like to cut wood. It was the grandkids job to cut wood for our granny who only had a woodburning cookstove for years. That radiant heat has meshed with memories of family and food at Granny’s house.
Victoria
4:50 pm on January 6th, 2010
I was interested in what you said about what to take for hair & nails. I couldn’t tell in the video what you said. (msn?)
thanks for your help!
My hair is thinning & nails are very thin & weak also.
4:52 pm on January 6th, 2010
We had a Baby Ben wood stove. I miss having it. Nothing else heats the same, it heats the air and the furniture. We would keep a pot of water on top so the air would not be too dry.
5:35 pm on January 6th, 2010
Happy New Year everyone! This is off the topic of today’s question of the day. I just wanted to say how inspiring the new year’s goals blog/video has been for me (and my wife). These are great tips that are very easy (and logical) to incorporate. I have taken the advice and created a “to do” list that I simply check off as I go along. Thanks Kevin & Ann Marie!
Also, I just made this short (and fun, you’ll see what I mean) video for raw ice cream and wanted to share it with my fellow Renegade Health readers. Enjoy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iepPV_jWdRI
6:09 pm on January 6th, 2010
I have many memories with our Wood Stove. My favorite years ago pre-health, we were having a small get together and grabbed some pizzas on our way home from a take and bake. Our power was out (typical with snow storms – yes in California it snows too!) and since time passed I bundled each pizza in foil and cooked them on top of the stove, which had a nice flat surface and glass doors, which I bought specifically for power outages where we lived at the time. Well it was fun, then pizzas bottoms burn but we all got forks and just started chowing down on it anyway, minus the charred crust bottom. They were pretty good in spite of. We had fun. Because of long-term power outages we always were able to cook and be warm. (Nothing more natural then wood, you cut the snags and dead ones, which there is always plenty since nature provides – not the live trees) — Thanks for the tip on honey water
6:52 pm on January 6th, 2010
When it is really cold outside I like to go to Bikrams Yoga. It is really hot in the room and the more poses you do the hotter it gets. The only problem with that is when I go out to get in my car I fog up all the windows. I seem to stay warm for a while after that. In fact I usually roll down my window to try and cool off.
9:32 pm on January 6th, 2010
Maca!
10:21 pm on January 6th, 2010
This made me remember growing up on the farm. We had a furnace that burned coal and corn cobs. I know that coal is not so good to use because it is a fossil fuel, but it was the warmest fuel you could get. When I was about nine my bedroom was so cold that the glass of water I had near the bed would freeze by morning. Finally, because my folks were concerned about me being warm enough, bought me an electric blanket. Funny–now I would not want to sleep under it, but then it was wonderful.
11:28 pm on January 6th, 2010
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12:36 am on January 7th, 2010
So if you have an insulin resistance problem, what would be the alternative to honey water or syrup water for pre-exercise energy source???? I’m currently using chia seeds and coconut oil and mate tea.
As for the wood burning stove. We had one when I was kid. It saves A LOT of money on energy costs. As for CO2 emission and the use of trees, well you can’t win with them all… Either way you hack it, you’re using some sort of energy source from the earth. One uses fosil fuel and the other uses trees. Other than cracking an open flame fire in the the middle of my livingroom, I don’t know of any other way to stay warm without using an energy source. So I say yes to the stove. You can even put your chinese clay pot on top to heat up water for tea!
6:55 am on January 7th, 2010
Kevin and Annmarie –
We’ve been jonesin’ for a wood-burning stove for a while, but until my husband can rig up something safe in our trailer… we have forced hot air.
Most of our days in the winter consist of Mo (my 12yo daughter) and I doing the following. We’ll be sitting at the kitchen table, playing cards, for example, and will hear the heat kick in. We immediately jump up, grab our respective blankets from our beds and make a tent over the heating vent in her bedroom and hide under there until it goes off. Last winter, our 12-pound poodle Edgrrr eventually figured out what all the hubbub was about and now insists on getting under there, too.
Too funny. : )
Lisa Marie Lindenschmidt
Rite Food and Company
11:51 am on January 7th, 2010
I want stronger HAIL… lol…
3:29 pm on January 7th, 2010
I lived in Montreal till I was 12. We had a summer camp an hour away, on 50 acres. What a treat. We also had one of those wood-burning cast iron stove/oven/furnace combo. My dear mother would get up early to get the fire going, so as to warm up the house. She’d also make coffee & get our breakfast ready. When we’d get up the house was pretty cozy. Thanks Mom (she’s in heaven now ).
My oldest sister who still lives in Montreal, has a similar wood stove to the one in your video. It’s in her basement. She mainly got it for emergency purposes. About 5 years ago they had an ice storm. No heat or electricity for 10 days.She resolved to get a wood burning stove which she now has.
I do miss Montreal & family I have there, but I can’t say I miss the cold. I remember it getting down to 20 below zero. Way too nippy.
Thanks for the great show. Blessings to you both.
P.S. Where’s Johnny 5? I miss him
4:07 pm on January 7th, 2010
When I was growing up we had an oil stove in one corner of the living room with pipes that ran from it through the shower (yes, the shower; obviously we didn’t use the shower–couldn’t, anyway, because the floor had rotted through) to the restaurant that was the front part of the building. The bathroom was so cold in the winter that we kept the door closed at all times, which made it even colder–so we only used it when we absolutely had to. The toilet froze up, so we had to do our thing in a bucket and when it was full we dumped it in the back yard.
The oil furnace didn’t radiate heat very well (and it was stinky), so the only place that was warm was right in front of it. We would run from our beds to the furnace and hunch over with a blanket or housecoat over our shoulders to get dressed. The other thing I recall is that our pet turtle somehow got out of its aquarium and disappeared. We didn’t know where it went until we found its skeleton under the oil stove years later.
Twelve years ago when we moved to northern Ontario, we rented a house that had two woodstoves. One was in the sunroom next to the kitchen, and we homeschooled there so we could monitor the fire during the winter. It was a great education for the kids! I cooked on it, even got brave with baking in its oven! There was a room under the sunroom that had no windows and was not heated–that’s where the wood was chopped and stored.
The other woodstove was downstairs in a sitting room, which hubby made the TV room. We couldn’t cook on that, but it was great to look at. One summer (when we were not using the stove) a bird blew down the chimney and into the stove. The kids came running to tell me there was something in the stove, and we had fun trying to get the bird out of there. When we finally made it decide that outside of the stove was more comfortable than inside it, the bird flew around the house and we had to catch it to put it outside. Wouldn’t you know, the stupid bird flew down the chimney and into the stove again at least once, maybe twice, more.
When we moved to our current house we noted there was a chimney in the basement so we had it repaired and got everything ready to install a new woodstove in preparation for Y2K but never did get one. We now have desks and tables in front of that spot, but I still want to get a good woodstove that will at least keep the house minimally warm and that we can cook on in case we lose electricity. If we do that, I think I will keep a kettle of water and a pot of soup on it all the time and note how the soup morphs from one kind to another as we keep subtracting from/adding to it.
Thanks for the memories!
10:46 pm on January 7th, 2010
LOL In my life at the moment its called Hot Flashes!
4:57 pm on January 9th, 2010
My parents converted their garage into what they used to call a “rec room”. They had it installed properly on a nice brick foundation and firewall. One day, my Mom wanted to get rid of some old shoes she’d cleaned out of the closet, so she threw them in the stove and shut the door. That fire burned so hot, it sent burning cinders of rubber, leather and other materials straight up the chimney and out onto the roof where they proceeded to set the roof on fire. The fire department came, put the fire out and said the only thing you should burn in a wood stove is, well, wood. And FYI it should be seasoned hardwood not any kind of processed lumber.
3:10 pm on January 11th, 2010
I like to drink/eat anything that is warm…soup, coffee, tea, oatmeal, etc. I also loved it when we could turn on our fireplace as a kid though I was scared to sit close to it for fear the flames would jump out and burn me lol