Warm in the Winter with a Wood Burning Fireplace

Posted by admin on December 20th, 2009 filed in Food, Home & Garden

With winter just around the corner in some cities, and coming on strong in others, it is time to consider the ways in which to keep warm.  For some people this means an update in their wardrobe.  Chunky snow boots and great scarves become the fashion.  Another way to stay warm, is to heat up the body, by doing even simple tasks such as cleaning the house, vacuuming is a menial task that will raise the body temperature.

Hot tea and coffee, hot soup…all of these add to the further increase in your internal temperature.  But say you would like to relax with a great book or an old black and white Christmas movie?  This is when the ever popular–throughout history–wood fireplace comes into play.  Curling up on the fireplace with blankets and big slippers will only get you so far.  Not only will the warm glow of the heat the room, but especially during the holidays, a warm fire will heat the heart and the spirit.

And during the winter months, gas heaters and electricity bills can sky rocket, and a wood burning stove will help ease that pain.  Not only is the heat provided much more consistent and evenly dispersed, firewood is not expensive and will burn long into the night.  Some choose to add cast iron inserts, which will increase the heat as it is stored in the iron long after the embers have ceased to glow.  So put on the thermals, grab the blanket and fix some hot tea.  Once the fire is raging, and the stockings are hanging from the mantle, and…Jimmy Stewart is doing his thing in “It’s a Wonderful Life“, the snow outside will become beautiful, not treacherous.  And the warmth inside will become the holiday preface or backdrop, for the holidays that are about to come about.

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