My great-grandmother stood at the wood stove, periodically wiping her hands on a stained, floral-patterned apron.
Good enough for cutting half a cord at least, to keep the wood stove going through October.
The temperature neared 100 degrees on the day of our visit, yet Hale's wood stove was warm to the touch.
You can count up 5.8 million BTUs (that's how many BTUs a barrel of oil yields) from a wood stove, or a diesel engine, or a microprocessor, or a laser.
The family appeared on welfare officials' radar in 2010 when their then-two-year-old son, Pavel, was hospitalized with burns after he sat in a bucket of water his mother had boiled on the wood stove to wash clothes, according to Mr. Babichev.
At the time, I cooked on an old wood cook stove, a throwback to a time when sourdough was common in home kitchens.
He led us to a small shack, a tilting shingled structure with four walls and a wood-burning stove.
First Energy, a start-up, has invented a wood-burning stove that consumes less energy and produces less smoke than regular stoves.
Mr. Ulibarri figures he spends about 70% of his time gathering and cutting wood for the stove that heats his home.
At the Omnia, each of the 18 rooms and 12 suites has a panoramic view of the Alps, and all suites include a wood-burning stove, fireplace and telescope.
While the temperature outside was minus 30 degrees Celsius (minus 22 Fahrenheit), the wood-burning stove was cold because the family had run out of firewood, according to the welfare workers.
Walking with us are white-collar retirees, accountants and lawyers, to name a few, who choose to spend the day in waterlogged clothes and each night warming up by a wood-burning stove while noshing on MREs from a camping store.
Burning yak dung in a wood-burning-style stove was the only form of heat at night, Ms Lloyd said.
Inside, the house is a faded daguerreotype of wood-panelled walls, brown linoleum floors and a cast-iron kitchen stove.
It wasn't a fancy piece of wood, just a regular woodpile log, the kind you might put in your stove or fireplace to stoke a fire and heat your room.
Each of the five beautifully-appointed, wood cabins is equipped with a claw-foot tub for soaking, a cosy potbelly stove and most importantly, sweeping views of the valley below.
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