When the snow is gone and the Indian summer has returned it's time to get back to winter preparations. With having electric heating system in the house it costs us a pretty penny every winter to stay warm. As much as we've always been resourceful and kind of on a budget, this year we are going an extra mile. We have decided to close off our "craft room" for the winter. The room we love to spend time in, reading, drawing, playing. We had to move the piano from that room as well. Since this room used to be a covered porch and does not have a foundation, plus with all the windows around it takes up a lot of heat to warm up the room in the winter. And the floor still stays pretty cold. I always see the dollar bills flying out the windowsturning into the snow flakes...
Now since we have a fire place' the idea is to heat the house as much as possible by burning wood. Unfortunately we don't have a wood burning stove and the fire place requires too much wood, but living in the country finding free wood is not a problem at all. The girls have been helping with gathering twigs and bundling them up for our fire starters, and Milana was busy cutting wood with her own ax, just like Tata. According to Mirek's estimate we have wood stocked up for about two weeks. Not for too long after all. Hmmm... maybe we'll go to Florida for a few weeks during the coldest time in winter.
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