It has been QUITE a while since I have been on here, but it has been a busy several months...but here I go. The past several weeks have seen me busy at the farmhouse...we are trying to get it ready for winter. You see...the farmhouse does not have central heat or a/c. This summer, we put in several a/c window units, and a portable a/c to keep us cool when we were there. I really do not like window units because I think they can make a house look cheesy, and we have tried very hard to make the old farmhouse look nice, but I will have to say...they were greatly apprciated, and not so much on the cheesy side!
Last weekend, Dad and I went down to the house so that we could take the portable a/c out of the living room and put the very HEAVY wood stove in! The stove had been a part of the living room for over 20 years when we took it out a couple of years ago. Now you see...we took it out bacause we couldn't use it; a squirrel has come down the stove pipe, gotten trapped, and clawed its way through the protective "mica" on the door of the stove. We were afraid that sparks would come out and could catch the floor on fire; therefore, we couldn't use it until we found a way to fix it.
Over the past year, we had located a place where we could get the mica, and dad fixed the door...so then it was just a matter of putting it in. Now, let me tell you...that stove was HEAVY; let me say that again...it was HEAVY!!!!! But, we got it in...just the two of us (Freddy and KK were visiting my step-son). Well, once we got it installed, we had to try it out! It was awesome! There is nothing better than the smell of fire on a cool night in the hill country (ok...I'm probably a little biased).
The next morning, it was so nice to wake up, sit in front of the woodstove, enjoy a cup of coffee, and remember the times my Oma did exactly the same thing.
