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I hated having to keep the wood pile full and the stove going. For a few years, I had a neighbor that would go over and start my stove an hour or so before I came home so the house would be warm for me. I use to set my alarm to wake me up, so I could reload the stove in the middle of the night, so it would be warm in the morning.
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That was the beauty of the Jotul stove. It was so efficient that I could put in three splits of wood 20" long at 11pm, and the house would still be warm at 8am and there would be plenty of coals left to get the next load of wood going. Once the cold weather hit, we never had to re-light the stove as long as we filled it twice a day. And only in the sub-zero weather did we need to give it a third filling in the early evening.
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I still come home at night and wake in the morning thankful for electric heat, now. 
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I bow down to the God Thermostat. Now, living in a more sane climate, we heat the house with a DeLonghi Oil-filled electric heater and a couple of small fans to blow the hot air around as the winter temps usually stay just above freezing. Usually. As long as there is no major earth quake we never lose power. The cat has pulled her cushion next to the heater and has settled in for the winter.
Stitchawl