Comments for Cold House Journal http://coldhousejournal.com Life with minimal heat: an experiment in adaptation Wed, 04 Apr 2012 10:20:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Firewood As Decor by coldhousejournal http://coldhousejournal.com/2011/12/06/firewood-as-decor/#comment-3033 Wed, 04 Apr 2012 10:20:18 +0000 http://coldhousejournal.com/?p=1388#comment-3033 Yes, it gives me a warm feeling just looking out at my wood pile and knowing it’s waiting there!

]]> Comment on Firewood As Decor by Sonia http://coldhousejournal.com/2011/12/06/firewood-as-decor/#comment-3032 Wed, 04 Apr 2012 09:44:55 +0000 http://coldhousejournal.com/?p=1388#comment-3032 I guess with it being so cold and freezing you need to have a bit of art to make it at least bearable! I live in the Cotswolds in the UK, we don’t get as cold weather as you do, but being in the Western part of the UK, we get a very hard ground frost which freezes the soil solid. In my porch I also have a stack of wood logs that we store for the winter, and it is very comforting and reassuring (to know we have a stockpile of wood to see us through our winter) and looks at home stacked up by our cottage.
Best wishes, Sonia

]]> Comment on Cold Folks in Maine by Cold House Journal http://coldhousejournal.com/2012/02/04/cold-folks-in-maine/#comment-2815 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:05:08 +0000 http://coldhousejournal.com/?p=1439#comment-2815 “I’m in the COLDEST PLACE I’VE EVER LIVED”

If I moved where you live, it would be the warmest place I’d ever lived!

]]> Comment on Cold Folks in Maine by Rising Tide http://coldhousejournal.com/2012/02/04/cold-folks-in-maine/#comment-2814 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:18:42 +0000 http://coldhousejournal.com/?p=1439#comment-2814 The comments on the Times site are just sad. People are so blind to the real problems.

]]> Comment on Arrgh! by Cold House Journal http://coldhousejournal.com/2011/12/02/arrgh/#comment-2812 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:07:23 +0000 http://coldhousejournal.com/?p=1382#comment-2812 Took down a FRIDGE? That is big game for a cat!

]]> Comment on Arrgh! by Sara http://coldhousejournal.com/2011/12/02/arrgh/#comment-2811 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:30:45 +0000 http://coldhousejournal.com/?p=1382#comment-2811 Took down a fridge. No idea how.

]]> Comment on Cold Folks in Maine by Sara http://coldhousejournal.com/2012/02/04/cold-folks-in-maine/#comment-2810 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:28:53 +0000 http://coldhousejournal.com/?p=1439#comment-2810 OMG I’ve missed you blogging about this for a while, too busy to catch up on blogs. But I’m in the COLDEST PLACE I’VE EVER LIVED and think of this blog often when messing with the heat. Fortunately, I have a whole wall of South and East facing windows, which is pretty standard here. They do seem to build for passive solar heating and if there’s sun, I can get the house to almost 70 just by opening the curtains. I guess that’s not so doable when you have cloudy weather there?

So anyway, in Taos I came across the EARTHSHIPS! I think I need one of those! google them – you’ll be jealous!

]]> Comment on Guest Post From Japan! by Laurie http://coldhousejournal.com/2012/01/09/guest-post-from-japan/#comment-2782 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:46:06 +0000 http://coldhousejournal.com/?p=1408#comment-2782 Lived in Japan as a child and it was wonderful to read your description of the house and the shoji screens especially. I have fond memories of poking holes in them….and getting in lots of trouble for it! Can still remember the smoky smells and the old grannies knitting. Beautifully written, thank you.

]]> Comment on Waiting For Winter by Cold House Journal http://coldhousejournal.com/2012/01/05/1403/#comment-2781 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:49:13 +0000 http://coldhousejournal.com/?p=1403#comment-2781 Ouch. ouch.

]]> Comment on Waiting For Winter by Cold House Journal http://coldhousejournal.com/2012/01/05/1403/#comment-2780 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:48:59 +0000 http://coldhousejournal.com/?p=1403#comment-2780 Brrr! Time for a wood stove, man. Hang in there!

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