Home 11 Feb 2007 10:24 pm
soapstone stove is on its way
At long last, we’ve bought a woodstove! An insert, actually, lined with soapstone for extra fabulousness: the Hearthstone Morgan. It’ll be here in a couple of weeks. Hooray!
If you ever wonder, “Why has Cam stopped getting her hair cut?” it’s largely because for the last several months I’ve been gauging purchases in terms of percentage of woodstove cost. (Oh, I’ll get the ends hacked off at Rudy’s one of these days, but I’m done with fancy haircuts for now.) See also, “Why have Cam and Josh finally given up DirecTV?”
He Thanks His Woodpile
The wood of the madrone burns with a flame at once
lavender and mossy green, a color you sometimes see in a sari.Oak burns with a peppery smell.
For a really hot fire, use bark.
You can crack your stove with bark.All winter long I make wood stews:
Poem to stove to woodpile to stove to
typewriter. woodpile. stove.
and can’t stop peeking at it!
can’t stop opening up the door!
can’t stop giggling at it“Shack Simple”
crazy as Han Shan as
Wittgenstein in his German hut, as
all the others ever were and areAncient Order of the Fire Gigglers
who walked away from it, finally,
kicked the habit, finally, of Self, of
man-hooked Man(which is not, at last, estrangement)
– Lew Welch
on 12 Feb 2007 at 8:03 am 1.Joy said …
“Soapstone stove” all on its own throws off cozy waves; I can only imagine how delightful the actual object will be. Congrats!
on 12 Feb 2007 at 2:20 pm 2.Cissa said …
That looks nice! I’ll have to point J at your link- he’s been talking about an insert, but most of the ones we’ve seen don’t look as nice as that one, nor have a decent window so one can still see the fire.
Congratulations!
on 22 Sep 2007 at 2:46 pm 3.Sculpin » a neophyte at the soapstone stove said …
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