There's something about a wood fire

We've had unseasonably warm weather for almost a week and a half which has been really nice.  The gardens have been prepped for winter and hopefully the grass will need cutting just one more time.

When we purchased our almost 200 year old Nova Scotian home four years ago, it came with a gravity fed oil burning stove in the kitchen...you know the one...Frankie and Ollie's favorite cuddling place.

Although it served us well, we wanted to replace it with a more efficient wood burning stove.  So we shopped around and decided to go with a Pacific Energy unit that was installed last week in anticipation of the cooler weather which we know lies waiting just around the corner.

We used it for the first time two nights ago when the temperature took a drop. It performed exactly as promised and we haven't had to turn our furnace on once since it's been installed...and it most definitely has the F & O (Frankie and Ollie) seal of approval!  We stoked it well before we went to bed last night and Frankie must have slept in front of it all night because we never heard a peep meow out of him till 4 a.m. when he came to wake us up.  He was hungry and the fire had burned down to a gorgeous bed of coals.

I've been doing a bit of stitching and managed to complete another block in Leanne Beasley's Down in the Garden quilt while struggling with a head and chest cold.

Leanne's version...

And my version.

So now that the new wood stove is in and my cold is just about gone, I'm hoping to get a lot more accomplished over the next little while.

Happy stitching!