The Infamous Stove

This is the infamous wood stove.  I guess Ray would use it in the winter when the weather got really cold.  I don 't know if he used it because his central heating system couldn't keep up with the cold or if he just wanted to save money or loved having a wood stove.  I hope it is not because he needed to use it because I don't want to mess with the work of a wood stove.  Logs should just stay outside and not expect anyone to carry them from there to here.

But here is the problem.  When Mom wakes up in the morning her body temp is very low and she is cold. She needs to build a fire in the wood stove to warm up the house.  She opens the door, bends over and looks inside to see what she can do.  There are ashes in there and she thinks maybe they need to be taken out.  She needs a bucket.  She tells me we need to get paper, wood, and coal to burn in it.  Bear in mind the temperature in the house is 72 degrees.

I can't divert her.  The house is freezing and she needs to warm us all up rather than to put on a sweater.  No, she does not want to sit with a blanket on her lap because the house is cold and she has to fix it.  No, she won't sit in the heated chair. Do I think she is going to sit there ALL DAY to try and stay warm?  No, the warm 72 degree house needs to be warmed up before we all freeze.

This morning she came up with a new idea.  We needed to turn on all the lights in the house in order to heat it.  Since we couldn't build a fire in the wood stove then all the heat from all the lightbulbs might help.  This from a woman who goes around turning off lights and insisting we all sit in the dark.  If she goes to bed before we do she will come out an extra time to remind us we need to turn off the lights when we go to bed.  Since I like lots of light I can get behind that idea.