They say wood heats you twice--once when you cut it, once when you burn it.
We've found it warms much more than that.
A woodstove provides a cozy place to sit and read and dream. A place to percolate coffee and simmer soup. A drying rack in front of the stove beats the clothesline on drizzly days and a table nearby provides a great spot for dehydrating fruits and vegetables using solar power once removed.
Burning wood warms your buy-local-carbon-footprint heart when you buy fuel from your next door neighbor who harvested it 1/2 mile away. And even those of us who don't cut our own gain exercise from stacking and hauling. And we get fertilizer from the ashes.
The financial benefits are heartwarming also. We dropped some serious change to buy and install this stove but I'm betting the price of propane will continue to increase and outpace firewood; as many have said, a woodpile in the yard is money in the bank. This stove will last a lifetime, unlike a furnace, and requires no electricity to run.
During winter, a woodstove becomes the center of the house. When you come in from the cold, you immediately feel the warmth wrap around you, your muscles loosen up, and you know you're home.
Welcome home.
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