What's everybody doing today?

[Mountain trapper]

how do you keep it from going out overnight? what sort of stove do you have? Ours goes out even if I shut off everything you can shut off and put a bunch of wood in it in the evening

We have a Kuma stove. Before we go to bed we stoke it with several logs then shut the damper down. Usually I get up at 5 or 6, open the damper and throw a few more logs in and it fires right back up. When it's really cold out I leave the damper open and sleep on the couch so I can add wood every couple of hours.

 

[sonya123]

We have a Kuma stove. Before we go to bed we stoke it with several logs then shut the damper down. Usually I get up at 5 or 6, open the damper and throw a few more logs in and it fires right back up. When it's really cold out I leave the damper open and sleep on the couch so I can add wood every couple of hours.

That explains it, ours is pretty much unattended for like 10 hours, nobody wants to get up and do that LOL
I sit in the bedroom with the space heater on when the work is done
Ours stays on for at least 6 hours , we have tried that going swimming and shopping and being gone for that long but that's about it

 

[Amish Heart]

I think maybe it depends on what temp you grew up with? I never got used to the heat in Florida, I put the ac as low as it would go and it ran all day long.

lol hell on earth: Florida in August without ac

I grew up outside of San Francisco, so no snow. But I've lived all over the place because of husband's job. So I've acclimated. But humidity, ugh.

 

[Amish Heart]

I'm up with husband's med stuff all the time. If I tended the fire, too, I'd never get a couple hours of sleep. We have forced air heat backup. I set it low, but it'll kick on if it gets that cold.

 

[Mountain trapper]

I'm up with husband's med stuff all the time. If I tended the fire, too, I'd never get a couple hours of sleep. We have forced air heat backup. I set it low, but it'll kick on if it gets that cold.

I put in a forced air propane furnace when I built the house. About the only time we use it is when we're going to be gone all day or overnight. Then I set the thermostat at 61 degs. Unless the outside temps are in the single didgets or lower, the furnace rarely comes on. Since we live totally on solar I don't like using the furnace too much. The only exception is if the backup generator is already running, then sometimes I'll turn the furnace on.

 

[d_marsh]

Got up, worked out, cleaned up, checked on Charlene, debated if she should go into storage for the winter and the Chevy Colorado should come out of storage, got the apartment ready, received the grocery order and put the stuff away, posted the next week's menu, locked up the guns, met the cleaning crew at the door and let them in, set out some pumpkin muffins for them and chatted for a bit, watched as they cleaned, watched them leave, put things back in their place, made lunch and now the girl and I are engaged in Marvel Wednesday where we watch a Marvel show every week and eat foods her mom doesn't really like.