BTW, the socks are the Over The Knee tube socks from Sock Dreams

Quote Originally Posted by mudd
And... what you need all that wood for in Orange County? :neutral:
My heater ducts are poorly laid out; the bedrooms get direct blasts of heat, but the livingroom/kitchen end of the house is at the end of a duct sytem that goes up to the top of the second story, down through an ouside wall, splits to 20+ feet of ducts... you get the point. I can't find any leaks, so I must assume a blockage or that the ducting plan doesn't allow enough volume to feed the long strech of pipe.

That's the rationalization. The truth is, I love the ambience of a real wood fire on cold winter nights....and the 45 year old house is drafty.