Glass of wineless, [dealcoholised] music, & fireplace going.....

@Lilac-JadeCanada A glass of wine or hot cup of coffee and some sixty's music in front of a fireplace is heaven to me.

@Betty I don't drink coffee in the evenings, which is when we do a fire, but it's all good for a stress remedy. I'll add a purring kitty too.

@Lilac-JadeCanada And a sleeping pup. Now we're all set.

@Betty There we go!

Our fireplace.

@Lilac-JadeCanada Nice fireplace, bet you get some nice heat from that. I'm in an apartment now so my fireplace is electric but still nice.
So you with your purring kitten, me with my sleeping pup and our favorite beverages, put on some music and we'll have a lovely evening. Next time I do, I'll think of you.

@Betty We can heat almost the whole upstairs with it. Electric is very nice, & still creates the right feeling.

Here's my kiri, & Purrin.

Also a pic I use in winter on the pc wallpaper.

@Lilac-JadeCanada Ahhh, they're sweet.
How do you insert a picture?

@Betty When posting or replying, there is the ''add photo'' under the comment box, click that & it will take you to your files, then choose a picture from there.

@Lilac-JadeCanada Thank you. Here's my Sammy.

@Betty Perfect fireplace companion! Very cute.

@Lilac-JadeCanada No to the glass of "honk-tonk," aka "plonk"/ wine for me thank you, visited a Winery ONCE, saw and smelled how the wine was made, it put me off the stuff for life.
A nice mug of hot chocolate, a couple of nice biscuits to dunk in it, a good movie on a dvd and that is my version of an evening well spent at home.
Oh and gauging by Cloud, the budgies behaviour last evening I think, LOL, she was starting to wish that her 'feather outfit' was 100% removable.

@Triphid I can't mix alcohol with my meds, therefore the non type. I like chocolate, but I don't want to drink it.

@Lilac-JadeCanada NICE, a modern one as well.
Mine is approx. 3years younger than I am fits and fitted perfectly in to the space it occupies and I am hoping that it will outlast me.

@Triphid We had the whole house reno-ed in 2012-13. That ''brick'' is recycled tires, our carpet is recycled soda pop bottles.

@Lilac-JadeCanada Do you burn a hardwood or a softwood in your wood heater.
I prefer and use aussie hardwood, usually long dead and dried out Gum-trees from, when I was still able, a Sheep Grazing property about 50 kilometres east of here, with 2 of us, one on the chainsaw and one loading we could easily get a 6' x 4' trailer loaded to the hilt in a matter of 2 hours maximum and all from alng and around the creek shown in the photos.

@Lilac-JadeCanada Love the idea of recycling. Every little bit helps.

@Triphid We prefer the hardwood, but a logger neighbour gets our wood for us now for free so we get what we get.....usually pine.

@Betty A bit better look at the pop bottle carpet.

@Lilac-JadeCanada Nice. Do the cats every try to sharpen their nails on the carpet?

@Betty No, they're pretty good at using their posts.

@Lilac-JadeCanada I started my annual test of the fireplace last night using pine from trimmings from my own pine trees and using cones and leaf ( needle) litter as kindling, the aroma from the pine was nice and made the house smell great.
So no more will I be sending the bits and pieces from my Cypress pines off the local Rubbish Dump.

@Triphid Sounds good.