Wood Stoves for Heat and Cooking
Greetings sisters in Christ,
We woke to a rainy day which is a blessing to take a break from physical labor outside.
Brother Jim filled this wood bin for us yesterday:
...and this one will be filled soon, with wood cedar chunks.
The wood stove we currently have is small because we live in a tiny house but below you can see how much you can cook at one time on a the stove that we used to have in the house in Wisconsin.
I always have a pot of water on the stove for washing dishes, hands, clothes or whatever.
There are challenges to heating with wood such as needing wood to burn:-) We have tons trees (many dead) in our forest and could probably burn until the day we die and not run out. Each spring and fall we cut wood (sometimes winter if it's mild) and get ourselves stocked up. There are many people who don't have a lot of trees on their land but they still burn a wood stove even if it's for supplemental heat when they do get wood. You can buy it from someone who cuts it specifically for stoves or you can be resourceful and watch for people needing trees cleaned up off their property, sawmills sell slabs and end pieces, people toss out pallets and old wood, advertise that you will cut and share the wood with the homeowner etc. Even if you can't use it for full time heat, you can cut your bill substantially intermittently when you get wood.
Another issue with wood stove heat is being able to adjust the temperature. In our tiny house it can get warm when I'm blasting the stove for quick cooking so we adjust the thermostat.
It's a window crank, it opens the windows :-) And we also open the doors. Open, shut, open, shut sometimes all day long and it's a good flesh killer!
Another issue is when it's winter with freezing temps it can be pretty cold when we wake up in the morning but there's nothing like sitting by the stove, watching the fire blaze up, drinking your warm beverage, thanking God for giving you the resources to heat your home.
We appreciate the hard work and exercise that goes into heating our home, it costs us virtually nothing (gas for the chainsaws) and we get the benefit of free heat to cook our food.
Give thanks unto the Lord for little things in life. Not a day goes by that I don't recall who I was and what He's done for me. Don't 'look' back (like Lot's wife) but you can look forward, knowing how far behind your past is, from where you came to where you are now, all through the power of our Father in Heaven. Thanks be to His Son who made the way for those who will follow after Him.
I leave you with this pretty picture, praising God.
Have a joyous day sisters,
Love in Christ,
Sister Deb
We woke to a rainy day which is a blessing to take a break from physical labor outside.
Brother Jim filled this wood bin for us yesterday:
...and this one will be filled soon, with wood cedar chunks.
That will be my job to fill as brother Jim cuts 3" round disks, I'll take the hand ax and chop them. I was chopping small fire sized pieces of cedar so that I can dip them in wax this winter for fire starters. I like to use cedar to boost the fire either when we're first starting it to get the heat going, or to flare it up for quicker cooking. We have LOTS of cedar that we got when we had our carving business so I should be able to cook for many years on it.
I'm actually doing this post about wood stoves so I can add it to my post I've been working on with multiple links about preparing for troubled times. It just gives ideas on how a person could prepare for troubled times before they potentially hit.
Not only does our wood stove keep us warm but I cook on it.
It heats up our morning beverage or bakes potatoes:
I can prepare pretty much everything on it ...
Even Bread.
The wood stove we currently have is small because we live in a tiny house but below you can see how much you can cook at one time on a the stove that we used to have in the house in Wisconsin.
I always have a pot of water on the stove for washing dishes, hands, clothes or whatever.
There are challenges to heating with wood such as needing wood to burn:-) We have tons trees (many dead) in our forest and could probably burn until the day we die and not run out. Each spring and fall we cut wood (sometimes winter if it's mild) and get ourselves stocked up. There are many people who don't have a lot of trees on their land but they still burn a wood stove even if it's for supplemental heat when they do get wood. You can buy it from someone who cuts it specifically for stoves or you can be resourceful and watch for people needing trees cleaned up off their property, sawmills sell slabs and end pieces, people toss out pallets and old wood, advertise that you will cut and share the wood with the homeowner etc. Even if you can't use it for full time heat, you can cut your bill substantially intermittently when you get wood.
Another issue with wood stove heat is being able to adjust the temperature. In our tiny house it can get warm when I'm blasting the stove for quick cooking so we adjust the thermostat.
It's a window crank, it opens the windows :-) And we also open the doors. Open, shut, open, shut sometimes all day long and it's a good flesh killer!
Another issue is when it's winter with freezing temps it can be pretty cold when we wake up in the morning but there's nothing like sitting by the stove, watching the fire blaze up, drinking your warm beverage, thanking God for giving you the resources to heat your home.
We appreciate the hard work and exercise that goes into heating our home, it costs us virtually nothing (gas for the chainsaws) and we get the benefit of free heat to cook our food.
Give thanks unto the Lord for little things in life. Not a day goes by that I don't recall who I was and what He's done for me. Don't 'look' back (like Lot's wife) but you can look forward, knowing how far behind your past is, from where you came to where you are now, all through the power of our Father in Heaven. Thanks be to His Son who made the way for those who will follow after Him.
I leave you with this pretty picture, praising God.
Have a joyous day sisters,
Love in Christ,
Sister Deb
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