Firing Up A Stove

Apart from getting lights and water to work -- naturally -- in our cottage (see yesterday's post), there was the cooking. Wife E. fired up our Desert Fire stove for the first time (pictured). She was completely at ease with the stove, and she worked it, I thought, as smoothly as I work my three-wheel diesel pick-up. For a moment, it puffs with smoke, then it gives almost smoke-free service. Our poplar grove outside provides excellent fuel, and gives little smoke.