Epiphany

If anyone owns an Upland brand woodstove, contact me. I have discovered a radical counter-intuitive way to make this thing work like a jet engine, even when you're down to just a few coals, and all you have left in the woodbox is the dreaded "big round".

This isn't our stove, but it's exactly like it, except we have a cooler handle, and ours is deployed.

Yay, internets!

We just got power back last night after about 24 hours. I was so excited to get back online only to find that it's actually pretty boring. We're all so used to boring now that we don't even realize it's boring. But having no electricity is even more boring. We had to do things like play cards by candlelight and go to bed early.

Not boring: having an excuse to use my Primus one burner to make coffee outside. That stove is Swedish AND, "The original Primus stove was celebrated on a Swedish stamp in 1984." That's how bad ass my stove is. It has its own stamp.