Mietzke's POST Holden Adventure

I love starting the morning fire from last night’s coals; the process of chopping kindling, laying it around the coals, opening up the flu and waiting for the pieces to ignite. I always spend the first few moments wondering if there was enough kindling… Should I have just used paper to help start it? Why am I so impatient?!

With the flu open the air rushes in, swirling the smoke round and round faster and faster until I can hardly see the kindling anymore just the small steady glow of the coals as they heat and brighten, then like magic the kindling ignites and fire dances through the stove. I add little bits of wood as the fire gets going and with in moments I can begin to feel the bits of heat pressing against the morning cold and filling the space around the stove warming my hands and face. A few more logs and the fire is in full swing and before I know it the temperature in the room and then the house will begin to change. The draw of warmth and the crackling of the fire will call little feet, and big feet out of bed to begin the day.
Nyrie is often first bring out the days clothes and warming each side of them to her liking and then slipping into them. Then the rest of us follow in kind.

It all begins with a coal left over from last nights fire made new.