Our house is heated by baseboard radiators. It cost us more than we could afford to heat this house since we moved in in late December. The last time our tank was filled, we paid $675 for 150 gallons of petroleum! No kidding. During the three winter months we have been in the house we burned about 200-250 gallons per month; and it was still cool in the house. You can see how expensive it can get! Well, we found an alternative that we are going to try this winter---a wood stove.
We found a very nice wood stove that should heat the majority of our house on Craigslist. I say "the majority of our house" because the house is very large (2900 sq ft) and additions throughout the years have rendered it a very funny shape. We bought a Grandma Bear Fisher wood stove. It weighs 400 lbs. Some of my husband's co-workers helped him move it to our house. What's so cute about this line of stoves is that they sit in bear feet.
These are the little bear feet that the Grandma Bear Fisher wood stove sits in. We got the wood stove for a really good price and the guy threw in all of his remaining firewood and equipment. We made out on the firewood! I saw an article recently titled Firewood a Hot Commodity as Heating Price Climbs. Yep, not that we have bought firewood, but we are certainly part of the trend that is trying alternative heating sources.
This is only some of the firewood we got, one truckload-full had already been stacked.
I have begun stacking the remainder of the wood. I read how to stack wood in order to have a vertical edge without relying on something to support it. To form a vertical side, you find logs that are about the same height and are uniform in height across the whole piece. They form a pair. Then you stack pairs alternating directions as you go up. It works the same way lincoln logs worked.
This picture offers a visual explanation of how the logs are stacked alternating directions. 
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I want to see pictures of your camping weekend.
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