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Just stacked a cord of firewood yesterday. There is nothing like a traditional, blazing log fire. But wee brither has an electrical "fireplace" at his apartment.... You know, the heater that has the fake fire-like light display? Well, yeah, it would never replace a real fire, but for his apartment, where a real fire isn't an option, it adds warmth and ambiance.

I like tradition okay, but what I like even better is starting new traditions.

I love a real fireplace!
I am so spoiled, the next place has to have one. Or at least a place for a fire out back.

I have two gas-log fireplaces in my home. The rooms they're in are on the other side of each other, so the one fireplace opens to the other. My first house had two fireplaces, one in the parlor, which was non-functioning --at one time it was woodburning, but then became a fire hazard so it was fixed so you couldn't use it. The second one was in the formal living and was a woodburning one, too. They were both beautiful. I grew up in a housing project in Staten Island, NY, and my parents bought one of those Mr. Christmas cardboard "red brick" fireplaces for our living room. My sister and I loved that thing! And, of course, the "Yule Log" was burning away on TV!

Spookymufu wrote:when we lived in Salt Lake City we used our fireplace a lot, since moving to Texas we have never used it. I like an old fashioned real log fire but my mom cant stand the smell so they always had a gas fireplace.....blue flames and cement logs....

LOL! My oldest brother lived in Scottsdale AZ. and they would light the fireplace on Christmas morning and by 9AM would have all of the doors and windows open.
Not an issue since they moved to Colorado.

Well, it'd be kinda like having an outdoor pool in Anchorage, Alaska.

From where, by the way, I hear you can see Russia.

Spookymufu wrote:I did a year in Phoenix and I dont even remember having a fireplace...

Heck, I don't even have a heater in my place.

MacPhantom wrote:Well, it'd be kinda like having an outdoor pool in Anchorage, Alaska.

From where, by the way, I hear you can see Russia.

Mac, that was great!!

Must be nice not to have to use heat, NeverMore. But I love the change of seasons here.
I just hate it around Jan. and Feb.

MacPhantom wrote:Well, it'd be kinda like having an outdoor pool in Anchorage, Alaska.

From where, by the way, I hear you can see Russia.

What a co-inkydink! I can see Russia from here too!

NeverMore wrote:

MacPhantom wrote:Well, it'd be kinda like having an outdoor pool in Anchorage, Alaska.

From where, by the way, I hear you can see Russia.

What a co-inkydink! I can see Russia from here too!

Yes, but can you see Putin rearing his head?

MacPhantom wrote:Yes, but can you see Putin rearing his head?

No, but I can see Ayatollah Khamenei and Mikhail Gorbachev getting pwned.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5q45Cvp1-k