We've owned CFB Crow Lake for about six weeks now and are in no hurry to let it sit under a pile of snow. We've known from the time of purchase that there'd be a period of time when we're paying for the place but unable to use it, but we're quite willing to push the limits.
We hope to stretch out our brief 2012 season with the purchase of a little something called the "Quartz Infrared Platinum Portable Furnace". Hell, I would have bought it for its cool name alone! Here it is:
Okay, Oscar, get out of the way, sweetie!
Let's try that again...
Here we go. It's advertised to heat a 1000 square foot area. Don't know about that...But it seemed to do a good job in the dining room and perhaps even the kitchen. In the living room, meanwhile, we got this bad boy going on Thanksgiving weekend.
We were reluctant to get it roaring because we weren't sure how to operate it. Turns you throw wood in there and set it on fire. Who knew? Oh, pretty well everyone? Okay, well that was rhetorical anyway...
Of course, there's also an old standard that helps...Coffee!!
No matter how much we're able to fend off the cold though, we would still have a problem with lake water intake so we're not kidding ourselves; we can't go over during the hardest winter months, but our little furnace should help add a few weeks at either end of the season.
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