Me: “I put the toilet paper roll over there in the kindling box.”
Aubrey: “Oh my God! I’ve lived here 8 years and you are the first person to know where the used toilet paper rolls go!
You see, I once lived at 9000 feet on a beautiful ridge in a two-story cabin with a wood stove for heat. Yes, I had propane, too, but it’s expensive. That, and I just love fire.
I like building fires. I like watching fires. And I like replenishing fires.
I like warming myself by the fire, sitting in front of the fire, or just knowing that there is a fire.
It only took me 3 nights at 18 degrees to figure out how to build a fire in the wood stove that would last all night and provide coals for starting it again the next morning. In the meantime, my boyfriend sent me a nice warm long-sleeved microfleece shirt and hat, which I keep to this day for just such occasions. I bought a down comforter. I learned the differences between how pine burns and how hard woods burn. Yesterday, I learned that a couple of logs of juniper will burn all night, too.
I love fire.
Love, Ann
April 8, 2008 at 2:50 am |
Haha- toilet paper rolls! My kids typically beg me to save them for the pet hamster in school, but who knew!
I just wanted to let you know of an article that gives great tips for building a fire and keeping it maintained. Perhaps to save some toilet paper rolls from an awful demise. Kidding.
Ingenuity is what made this world!
Best of luck in the winter months.
June 8, 2009 at 8:12 am |
I came up with one for my wood stove that takes care of two problems at the same time. It would work for toilet paper rolls also. I was using an old cardboard tube that comes inside carpet, but paper towel rolls also work. I have a wood shop and it accumulates tons of sawdust. I take one of the rolls and stop up one end with newspaper. Then I pack in sawdust from the shop, stuff it in with a stick so it’s very tight. Then seal the other end with crumpled newspaper. When put in the wood stove it burns just like a ‘real’ log. Almost no ash residue. You can get almost as many carpet rolls as you need by going to a carpet store and asking them. They give them away.