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goes out into the environment.
We bum Virginia white oak and yellow poplar, but only from trees which are dead, or ready to fall. We can bum round logs, Y-shaped logs, and large, unsplitable logs that would never go through the door of a stove.
A heating salesman once tried to persuade me to switch to an oil furnace or a propane heater. The only effort on my part would be turning the thermostat knob and writing the checks to pay the fuel bill. But I was not persuaded. In his sales pitch he told me how open fireplaces were inefficient, all the heat went up the chimney. I told him so far as I was concerned, after heating the channels in the masonry, and after pouring 105-degree air from the register and warming the thousand-and-one bricks, whatever puff of heat escaped into the cold Blue Ridge air, the birds were welcomed to have it.
Actually we do have lots of birds at the farm, mainly because my wife, Julia, is generous with the birdseed. The several feeders attract the seedeating — grossbeaks, finches, cardinals, indigo buntings, and others — and the presence of the seed-eaters seems to attract the birds that prefer insects.
I remember how once, in early spring, a mockingbird sat on the top
The starling flew from the window to the bookcase and back to the fireplace screen, and the cat followed its flight-path at ground level. We quickly opened the front door, and the sooty starling flew out over the hay field.
Another time, Julia and I came
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