I'm going to miss these. The Redding place just has a gas fireplace, which I guarantee you I'll never turn on. No crack or pop, no need to tend and poke.
Like I told the LT, next I'll need to see if I can find a cabin within reasonable driving distance with a real wood burner, so at least intermittently I can get my fix.
A fake fireplace is just not the same as the real thing.
ReplyDeleteYou need to be able to burn hardwood. It's critical to your soul.
ReplyDeleteYou are moving to Redding?
ReplyDeleteMfG
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Half way there. Finished up my prior career, and got a job there, and now a house. Currently cleaning up the old place, where I've been nearly 25 years, and I'll sell in March, or thereabouts.
DeleteIt's how my late mid life crisis is manifesting itself, but without the red sports car and freckled face floozy.
What is your favorite wood to burn?
ReplyDeleteSo far mine is a combination of cedar and oak. Easy start, and long burn.
Anything that goes crackle and pop. However, your cedar/oak combo sounds about perfect.
DeleteI was at Redding over the weekend.
ReplyDeleteIt was balmy.
I miss the calm pace of the area... it was calmer in Anderson.
What I miss most is the high speed broadband I had there for less than the what we've got in Elk Grove.
Oh, yeah.
DeleteIf you know someone up there, there's plenty of oak to be had if you're ready to split it yourself.
Just don't let it get too seasoned before you split it.