The first cold days of fall came this week…..we got the fireplace going.

We don’t have one of those gas fireplace thingys, ours burns wood. Takes a bit
of work, what with getting the wood in and actually having to build each fire and
clean it out every so often.

The payoff is in the smell and the sound and the fact that each fire we have is different
from any other. There’s something about splitting the wood and the small effort it takes
to get and keep it going that’s somehow comforting, too.

Fire.