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| Our son, Jon came home for Christmas! |
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| We had family over for Christmas Eve. We ate Prime Rib, cooked by MIL and sister, with all the added goodies of green bean casserole, rolls, mashed potatoes and gravy and of course all the Christmas goodies. |
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| This is my brother's girlfriend and she's holding up a hook rug that Cortney made for her for Christmas. |
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| This is my brother and his girlfriend who came over to spend Christmas day with Mike, Cortney, myself and our son. We ate ham and leftover trimmings from Christmas eve. Everyone had a good time and we felt so very blessed to have our son come home for Christmas. |
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| Okay this is my Christmas gift in the process of being refurbished. It's a Majestic wood/ coal stove with a water reservoir. Mike and our friend Charlie are rebuilding, re-bricking and replacing the refractory clay on top of the oven. They are also relining the water reservoir with stainless steel( our water corrodes steel so bad) and adding a warming shelf for me. I'm thrilled, for obvious reasons, this stove has a water reservoir and an oven twice the size of our current wood cook stove and it is set up to burn coal as well as wood. The other really special reason is that this stove belonged to our friend Charlie's wife's grandmother so I feel so privileged to be entrusted with all of their family heritage in this stove. |
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| The firebox door is slated to be removed, sand blasted and painted with stove paint before replacing, but most likely I'll load the wood and lump coal from the top anyway. Look at the size of that oven door!, and the oven enamel is in really nice shape( didn't get a picture of the inside of oven) |
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| The water reservoir is coated with hard water build up but is water tight. Mike and Charlie are thinking of lining it with stainless steel, once Mike gets all the hard water scale cleaned off they'll talk about it more then. I'm so excited to get this stove installed and operational( for sure for next winter) :o) |
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| This is one of several pieces of jewlery Cortney designed and made for Christmas gifts. I was even gifted with a beautiful necklace and bracelet( will post pictures soon) for my Christmas gift. This particular set was designed for one of Cortney's Grandmothers( my Mom) All gifts aside "Our Best" Christmas gift was the return of our son! I hope your Christmas's were as full of blessing as ours was! Blessing to each who read this blog post in the coming week and throughout 2012. |
