Oh, sure, I'll be around. I mean, what with this forum be when the newbies ask, "What kind of stove should I buy?" without someone to post a 97-paragraph questionaire about horizontal and vertical air circulation, what kind of shingles they have on the east side of their house, and when their middle child will leave for college? Now if someone could just explain why they tend to back slowly towards the door muttering about having left their coffemaker plugged in . . . gosh, just trying to help . . .
It's been an adventure. Since September, I finished my hearth, got my stove installed, rescued my wood supply from a three-day ice storm, lost a car in a post-ice-storm rollover, lost a boiler to the same ice storm (due to the brownouts taking down the controller), complete with a Great Green Slime Explosion in the garage, went immediately over to life as a 24/7 burner, got a chainsaw, chaps, a flat-bed ford, and a big pile of birch in my driveway, and learned how to change the gasket on my woodstove. At -40, if I recollect correctly. (Gyrfalcon?) Oh, yeah, and learned how to post pix to the forum. Looking forward to a real peaceful winter next year. Please.