That Moment...

That moment when you finally have an opening for your novel that you still like when you re-read it the next morning.

Apart from the second sentence. That one very obviously needs some work.

 

That moment when you wake up at 3:00 am because you've been working overnights and your body isn't calibrated for a regular schedule.

 

^ TMW you realize that no one else is used to waking up at 3:15 am like you do.

 

You just wake up this early for fun or for work?

 

For fun. :3

 

But that is the opposite of fun. It's like "funsize" chocolate which is really just so small that it makes you sad.

 

A whole house completely quiet, just me and coffee.

That's fun.

 

At THREE A.M.

Even badgers are asleep at 3am.

 

To be fair, I go to bed at around 7-8 pm.

 

I have one of those! Mine's almost done too

 

Wood: the fuel that heats twice - once when you cut it, again when you burn it!

 

Totally agree! I try to go in with 6 cord and it costs $700 for the wood itself here (not counting chainsaw gas/oil). Probably about $800 all in. I go in houses that don't have woodstoves and feel cold. It's a totally different kind of heat and I wouldn't be without it. I love it. Mine usually runs from October to late April and I keep the house around 70 (though the room with the stove is significantly warmer).

What kind of stove to you have?

 

Oh, man.... all that cord-wood is giving me a pyro-chubby.
<--- total pyro

 

TMW you kinda', sorta' understand the whole "furry thing".

 

I get a tri-axle load delivered every summer (sometimes spring depending on weather) and I have a log splitter, so it's a lot of work, but not too awful.

I used to have one like that. Now I have a Harman that I love so much. It will heat you right out of the house and gets 8 hour burns so you can still sleep even when it's super cold (without having to get up and add wood in the middle of the night).

 

I wouldn't want to cut a whole winter's worth myself - when I lived in a house that heated with wood, I bought it (and even paid them to stack it for me after the first couple years).

But we have a family cottage that we only use for a couple weeks in the winter, and it's nice to go up in the fall and work as a family and put in a cord or so, which is more than enough. Well, thinking about it now it's nice, but really I hate the noise, when it's happening. And I hate wearing ear protection because I get paranoid that someone's going to sneak up behind me (with a chainsaw, naturally, given the setting) so... "nice" may not be quite the right word. But it's a tradition.

 

I think those were tigers.