{"id":189,"date":"2008-01-19T14:20:11","date_gmt":"2008-01-19T19:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/2008\/01\/19\/wood\/"},"modified":"2008-01-19T14:28:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-19T19:28:00","slug":"wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/2008\/01\/19\/wood\/","title":{"rendered":"Wood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heh, that&#8217;s me. What is it about dragging seasoned old logs with bugs under the bark into your house that is so satisfying? It&#8217;s gotten cold, and it is going to get colder, and I have three days to spend in my very own house (I&#8217;m not always here), and I&#8217;ve just got to burn wood. The upstairs stove is small, working well, and there is enough cleared space around it to be safe. But the downstairs stove is the one I really need to use&#8211;it is much more efficient and will burn the big logs that are left. I&#8217;ve burnt up all the little stuff in the little stove. I just have to spend an afternoon in the basement clearing away STUFF in order to start it up. If I stoke the downstairs stove right, it holds until morning. Oh, the satisfaction in that!  It&#8217;s like winning the first set! Last night Jerry and I had dinner (barbecue), then went our separate ways to our remote homes where we both burn wood. I didn&#8217;t come home to a fire (I&#8217;m so grateful for my heat pump), but he had to call me after 11:30 p.m. to let me know that he still had good coals after 18 hours and then brag a little on the merits of a Fisher. He also said he wanted to make sure I got home safe, God love him, so I won&#8217;t say that it was only the bragging rights that compelled him to call. Now, after errand running in Richmond and a little internet time at the library, I&#8217;ll head back to Kelley Ridge to clear a space, load up a wheel barrow full of wood, and build a fire that will hopefully see me through until Tuesday morning when I head back to Marion County. And I&#8217;ll remember with a catch in my throat that it&#8217;s Joe&#8217;s stove, Joe&#8217;s chimney, Joe&#8217;s hands that touched those logs that keep me and his old dog warm.<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/fire.jpg' title='fire.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/fire.jpg' alt='fire.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heh, that&#8217;s me. What is it about dragging seasoned old logs with bugs under the bark into your house that is so satisfying? It&#8217;s gotten cold, and it is going to get colder, and I have three days to spend in my very own house (I&#8217;m not always here), and I&#8217;ve just got to burn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,74,8,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}