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[dgallett]

No sewing yesterday.  Spent the whole day cooking and acquiring this little cutie.

[Sharon]

So that's a heating stove, right, not a cooking stove? Looks good since winter is coming.

[lovetostitch]

I love it! I'll post about our fireplace disaster some time.....ugh!!
You need to place a little pot of cinnamon, vanilla or something on top when you light it....mmmmmm  (does it come in RED?)

[Pat]

OMG.. that is so sweet!! I have no clue how to use it but i agree it needs a little pot of stuff cooking on it now!

[HeyJudee]

Come on gals...you have led a pampered life with central heating...LOL.  I know all about those things albeit only when I was still living at home with my parents.  But ours was not a pretty blue like this one.  Just plain ole black.  And my brother just took a plain one out of his house (he's living in my grandfather's house) cause last year he installed a newer wood burning furnace that really heats so he didn't need the stove any longer.

dgallet...just a comment about the saw blade as heat protector for the walls.  Really cute...but I don't think that would pass inspection for fire insurance purposes up here in Canada...

[chouxqltr]

We still know about those here too, Judee & dgallet!  DS uses wood heat to heat his home.  Bigger than this one but not a pretty as your dgallet.  We too used wood as our primary source of heat up until 8 or 9 years ago.  Nothing like wood heat on the
-40 days we can get!!

[Pat]

I'm a city girl with electric heat... LOL!!!  BUT when I was little my one set of grandparents heated with coal. They had a big dirty coal bin in the basement and pop-pop had to go down and stoke it .... we were NOT allowed down in the basement when it was running!

The ringer washing machine was down there too!

[chouxqltr]

Wringer Washer!  Oh I remember that one very vividly!!  I once got my LONG hair (down to between my shoulder blades!) caught in it when it was my turn to do the laundry, may have been 12 or 13!   Never went near one again without having my hair tied back

[KarenInTucson]

Now you all are bringing back my memories of my younger years on the Nebraska farm.  We had a pump for water in the kitchen, wood cook stove, coal furnace in the basement and wringer washer for the laundry.  Glad folks did a big remodel in 1952 so we go indoor plumbing and electric stove in the kitchen.  Glad those days are only a memorie.   

[Sharon]

Hey, Karen, what doesn't kill us makes us stronger! LOL

[lovetostitch]

It wasn't that many yrs ago we ventured to see where my DH was born - coal mines of WV. He was taken to raise as a baby & never knew his real family - until 1986.  When we went to the house where his mother lived, they had just gotten running water for the toilets, but still carried water to cook/drink - but it was sure clean, and the auntie was painting an old glider on the back porch.  He grew up in Grundy, VA tho - didn't know til he went in service that he had  different last name - LOL - he had a hard time answering roll call cuz they called him by real name instead of the one he knew, so that's when he legally changed it.  Back then no one had the $ to do things like that. 
I always appreciate the little conveniences too!

[Cindy in TN]

That is as cute as it can be...and yes, we NEED to know...does it come in red?

[Pat]

wowzer what stories! Amazing your husband got a chance to meet his birth family....

i don't know much about farms but they always seems to build character... hehe!!

Gregg's mom grew up in a log cabin, she has some really interesting stories!

[bafriend]

The blue stove is really cute. ( Love blue) Glad I don't have to heat with it though...have a new furnace.

I do remember the wringer washer at my grandma's house when I was little. One reason why people didn't change clothes as often as they do now!

I also remember my great aunts did not have indoor plumbing on the farm. I was not a fan of the out house. Yuck

[madakamom]

That IS a cute stove!  My parents had a black one in our pocono cabin. One night it was blizzarding and dad loaded up the stove really full to keep us warm... the only problem was the logs kept wanting to push open the doors and come rolling out! I thought he was going to burn the cabin down!