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***Cozy Winter Fires***

***Cozy Winter Fires***

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* This is the perfect time of year for me….. It’s cold (for Florida)….. It’s overcast (a lot of the time)….. And it all creates the perfect ambience for keeping a fire going in our den….. We don’t need a roaring/huge fire…we don’t need to augment the room’s temperature much….. …..but the glow and crackle make for a perfect mood-setting and safe & sound feeling….. I’ve remedied last year’s smoky down-drafts (I think)….. It…

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Mama’s Froe

Mama’s Froe

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* CLICK HERE***Maybe This Link Will Get You To My Tick Tock Channel*** My Birthday present arrived in the mail….. …..it was so worth the wait!….. My older daughter researched the Best Froe Ever!….. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~My Mama Froe~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ***Please Tell Me What’s This Fore-Thing*** It was slightly delayed because of the exceptionally scorching heat-wave that has been searing the states in the northwest….. My froe was made in Oregon…..and Oregon has been broiling under record-breaking…

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*****The Chillies*****

*****The Chillies*****

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~~~~~~~Happy Belated Ground Hog Day~~~~~~~ Punxsutawney Phil did indeed see his shadow….. …..sooooooo…..six more weeks of winter(?)…..(I guess)….. ~~~~~Punxsutawney Phil~~~~~ This has been a great winter to indulge in my semi-pyromania….. I’ve cleaned up the backyard…..and the front yard….. …..now I’ve started on the goat’s pasture….. This has all been a clean-up mission of two years of blown down stuff from all of the trees….. Unidentifiable mosses…Palmetto fronds…squirrel-decimated pinecones (just to get things rolling)…Spanish moss…just about anything I can get…

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Flannel Shirts & Bare Feet

Flannel Shirts & Bare Feet

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  It’s the end of January….. I’m here in the northern hemisphere….. ……so unless you are hanging around below the equator….. …..it’s either chilly or it’s freezing outside….. Because I live in fun/sunny Florida….. …..it’s chilly….. …..the heater had to cut on…..!!!….. …..and it’s doing so with regularity…..!!!….. It has a different sound than the swoosh of the air conditioner….. …..and the first few times it flips on during the cold season….. …..there’s a definitive/disconcerting burning-smell….. …..it always makes me…

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Eau d’ What…..!!!…..

Eau d’ What…..!!!…..

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This is Florida’s (short) annual-cold-snap….. We’ve had a series of days with chilly weather….. I’ve been successfully burning two year’s worth of wood from the backyard….. …..there was a lot of damp/pithy/spongy/dead/nasty/wood that has dropped from the trees back there….. …..it’s not the best firewood….. …..but it’s burn-able….. …..and quasi-ignitable…..(with the appropriate application of the necessary incendiaries)….. …..not the best of BTU’s…..but it’s enough….. …..I’m not picky….. …..I’ve got a nice roasty-toasty fire in the fireplace…..warming the house….. …..I’m successfully…

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It’s Pyro-Technic-Time!!!

It’s Pyro-Technic-Time!!!

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  It’s time for Florida’s three days of cold.  I have seven cords of wood. I’m ready. I spent a day with the front-end-loader picking up and stacking firewood.  I’ve knocked off carpenter ants, red ants, worms, chameleons that aren’t chameleons (but I can’t remember what they are actually called).  I wore gloves and boots and the weather was cool-ish, so the likely-hood of highly interactive, poisonous snakes was on the low side.  But I kept my one-good-eye peeled for…

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