toasty

TOASTY
i get up each morning real early
if you have ever gotten an email or text from
me
then you know what time that is
lets just say the roosters arent crowing yet

the time i wake up and get up is the result
of the side effects of the aricept (donepezil)
i take for my possible alzheimers disease
i wake up
bam im awake like emeril does when he cooks
never to go back to sleep that morning

i realized this morning that i spend about 8 hours
in my living room
where i sit first thing in the morning
reading my emails
and
reading news
and
reading articles on alzheimers
and
writing this blog

then in the evening we like to watch the news
we like to watch pbs since its more balanced
and
they dont scream and go off the deep end
on issues

then we watch usually our dvred shows
i hate commercials so i just zip right through
them

so here i sit in this room
several hours of the day
so i like to keep it comfortable

now its walls are all limestone done by a local
artisan years ago
if you look closely at the wall above the fireplace
you can see a long haired person smoking a pipe
on an engraving
just above the picture
we say its willie nelson since the previous owners
and friends traveled around with willie in the 70s

so in the winter when its cold like it is now
we keep our wood burning stove going 24/7

now the wood i purchase from a guy we call
hippy steve
he delivers the wood and plays his 60s-70s music
real loud as he stacks it in our garage
he does a perfect job of stacking all that firewood
he use to have long grey hair pulled back in a
ponytail
so we called him hippie steve
he cut his hair last year so we now call him firewood steve

this year he delivered us the mostest perfect wood ever
cured just right
all the pieces were cut equal

when we got the fire going in the stove
it just seemed to burn better and warmer than in
years past
you get blurry eyed from the warmth
like the fire in this picture

maybe the haircut change made him do a better job
of wood selection and wood splitting

so we try to keep that living room real toasty
oven like
once that limestone warms up on all four walls
we feel like we are in a cocoon
then
the heat flows up the stairway
into our upstairs bedroom
which keeps itself at a sleepable mid 60s

there is no better feeling in the cold winter
when a fire is going
and
that wood generating heat just seems to permeate your
pores

making you feel so toasty inside

then

we also have to sit on our couch
facing our large south facing picture window
and
watch the sun arising as the morning dawns on us

there is no way a central heating system can duplicate this

so
i we feel like the work we put into starting the stove
and
keeping the fire going
is worth it
to feel this toasty feeling we get to experience every day
during the winter

toasty is the best description i can think of

the organicgreen doctor

so this is what its like

SO THIS IS WHAT ITS LIKE
ive never lived in the mountains or way up north
and had to endure those long cold winters

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the closest we ever came to that was when my wife she
was in graduate school at the university of arkansas
in faytetteville arkansas
tucked in the ozarks in the northwest corner of the state
when the year we were there those wintery storms
came through on a weekly basis
and it seemed there was always snow and ice on the
roads that winter during january and february
i didnt like it then
and i dont like it now

as we here in central texas have been forced in side by
cold weather for several days and will have at least two
more days before we get that warming trend we
usually see here in central texas

all that cold rain and sleeting thats been going on does
make for a fun weekend though

so we were locked inside by the weather
i have my gardens all covered up with the white row cover
blankets that lets the water through but keeps it warmer
around our plants

we have had our wood burning stove going all weekend like
an old train engine
shoveling in wood to keep it full
after awhile the heat from the stove warms all the limestone
inside our house and we basically have this warm oven
that we can live in
its the best warmth you can ever experience
almost cocoon like

then for me i got to watch football all weekend long and
mostly vegetated on the couch that big comfortable made
for football and lounging and napping

i saw the razorbacks lose but i think theres a team brewing inside
there that will get better every year
dont give up hog fans

i watched that johnny football play
he lost but i would pay to watch him play live
hope he goes pro this year

i watched the baylor bears hoping to watch that high powered
offense but they got mauled by the osu cowboys

i watched the cowboys win thank goodness
the best of the worst it seems

then i watched the beginnings of the peyton vs tom battle
wished i could have stayed awake for the whole game
it sounded like a good one at the end
however
im real glad i wasnt at that game and am glad i dont live in new england

ill never complain about our weather again

so a good cold but warm inside snuggly weekend
here at the country n

sometimes you just have to have one like that you know

the organicgreen doctor