When I was a kid living in the southern part of the country, my dad used to only use wood for heating our house.
- We had this old wood-burning stove in the basement and that’s what we used for heating the entire house instead of a regular gas furnace or electric furnace.
My sister Carrie and I used to have to carry in wood for the fireplace all the time, plus the wood for the wood-burning stove. We spent most of our childhood toting wood from the backyard to the fireplace and the wood-burning stove! I remember always wishing that we had a gas furnace or an electric furnace like a lot of my friends had. Now that I’m older, I know that it sounds crazy to feel jealous over your friends’ heating system, but that’s how it was back then. I really hated having to carry all that firewood around all the time! I guess we really didn’t have it too bad, though. My sister and I have good memories of growing up smelling woodsmoke and being nice and cozy from the wood-burning stove and from the fireplace. To this day, I still love building a fire in the fireplace during the winter time. It always takes me back to my childhood. Of course, these days, I’m not the one having to haul in the firewood. I always get my husband to do it for me. Plus, we also have a gas furnace so the fireplace isn’t our only source of heating. I guess when you’re not as pressured to use a wood-burning stove or fireplace, it makes you like it just a little bit more.