Dec 7, 2018

How to Build the Perfect Fireplace Fire





Doyle dumped her duffle, prepared to step out again and leave her to it.
But she walked to the fire, looked at him, looked back.
“What? I’m supposed to light a fire for you now? Christ.”
Muttering all the way, he took bricks of peat from a copper bucket, arranged them on the grate as he had as a boy.
It was simple enough, took only moments, and if the scent squeezed his heart, he ignored it.



Island of Glass






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I have a fireplace, a cord of split, seasoned wood, and a cold family. So I make a lot of fires.

There are many resources for building fires that promise successful fire-building. Many. So, so many. I urge you to review them. There’s the lean-to method. The teepee method. The pyramid method. The top-down method.

But, for me, nothing about a fire is ever consistent—not the tinder or kindling or logs.