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Cottage Door Ice Wall

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Morning Light on Cottage Door Ice Wall I’ve been encouraging this huge icicle to grow next to our door. It’s like growing beans but upside down. The weather conditions have been just right. It gives me ideas. Sponsoring Advertisements:

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I Like Fire

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Fire in a Box I like wood fires because… It is a technology where I can build my own efficient stove. I can do this with metal, with scrap, or even just with local stone. There is no electricity, electronics … Continue reading

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Burn Zone

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In the Burn Zone We heat with wood. That is our source of heat all winter. Because our cottage is so small and so thermally massive it takes only about three quarters of a cord of wood to keep it … Continue reading

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Wackity Wackity Wood

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Splitting Circle Ben, shown above, Will and I have been splitting winter wood. With such a small heat efficient cottage we burn very little wood per winter so the task of getting wood in for the year is pretty minor … Continue reading

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First Fire Fall 2014

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First Fire of the Fall Today Will and I cleaned out the chimney and we lit our first fire of the cold season. Holly said she loved hearing that chuff-chuff sound of the choo-choo train starting up as the draft … Continue reading

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Ferrets Out

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Ferret in Out House Hope and Ben have two ferrets, Luna and Sola. The ferrets have a bedroom up in the loft of our cottage and then 4″ pipes that lead down through the walls to a tee junction that … Continue reading

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Mary’s Bells

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Mary’s Bells This wrought iron nicknack was given to me one Christmas by Mary, my brother’s wife’s mother who recently passed on. The hearts and bells now hangs in our cottage bathroom and reminds me of Mary each time I … Continue reading

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Moss Grows on a Roaring Stone

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Cottage Cliff Spring has Sprung and the rock lichens are visible now that the snow is gone from the north face of the cliff outside the cottage on Sugar Mountain Farm. When we built our tiny cottage in 2005 we … Continue reading

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