Through The Arc

i have a daily relationship with fire

it warms my house

and brings me closer to myself

Wood burning stove is love 
Wood burning stove is life

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that’s nice. where do you get the wood from? how is it where you live?

This is at my parents property up in the Sierras. If I didn't have a family in the picture I'd have moved in years ago. 

Wouldn't need the fire right now, maybe just a small one, it starts getting hot this time of year up there. 

We get 1 cord give or take of almond from Central California each year. Find people on Craigslist and arrange delivery.

Yeah there's lots of cheap local wood for delivery/stacking. But it's not easy to find from afar. I've never met a woodcutter with a website lol

It's a super hard problem to fight because it's so invisible. It can be 20-50 years before we learn the causal relationship between invasive beetles -> climate change -> tree mortality crisis -> whole towns burning down.. And by then it's too late.

Not my property, not my choice, unfortunately. I've brought that up with my parents before. 

When I spent extended periods up there in my early 20's I always stocked locally, but now I live 9 hours away and my parents are both pushing 70... it's not an excuse, but it explains the pattern.

Bruh you haul your wood up from the valley? Gotta buy it where you burn it or you might spread the 🚫🪲

I grew up in the sierras and folks hauling in their firewood was a huge problem.