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Heating the Old Fashioned Way

Posted by Admin on January 10th, 2010 filed in Uncategorized

I have a newly-acquired friend who is Amish. Although we have some fundamental differences in beliefs, it’s interesting and enjoyable how many similarities we have. We seem to be two of those “kindred spirits” that can finish each other’s sentences and each time we visit we find new things we have in common. Although, obviously I am not Amish…I definitely gravitate toward the simpler lifestyle and there is a common thread that we have to share.

Every time I enter my friend’s home during cold weather, her wood-burning Amish fireplace is crackling away in her kitchen. Actually, it is a cook stove that they use successfully to heat their entire home. One day I even had to bring my husband to her home so he could see and feel for himself how toasty their home is just by burning wood in their cook stove.

Some day…we are going to make the transition to wood heat.

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