The Fireplace

This post is about the weird adventures of a fireplace. Okay... never mind. This is a post about the weird adventures of the people who light the fireplace. As everyone knows, it's winter. So everyone is all crazy about how the fire has to stay lit 24/7. Never mind. Not that often. Since our neighborhood cuts down about two trees every year, they give it to us. Then, my dad uses his wood splitter to split the wood. We line up the wood on these racks in our back yard with the wheelbarrow, then we bring ten or twenty or fifty pieces to another rack in our back patio. Then we take a few of THOSE pieces and put them in ANOTHER rack in the house next to the fireplace. Then we take some of THOSE and put them in the fireplace along with paper, cardboard, little twigs, sticks, small logs, and big logs. My dad wants us to understand which order to put them in and why. Because the fire gets hotter as it goes from paper to cardboard to twigs to sticks to small logs to big logs. At the beginning of winter, we only burned a few pieces a day. Later on, we started burning more pieces including in the night. Then it suddenly got warmer and we didn't make any fires... Then suddenly out of nowhere, it gets cold again and we burn twice as much wood as we used to. In fact, last night, I filled up the rack inside the house and by the time I woke up, it was all gone. IWANTITTOSNOWSOBADLY!!!! If it doesn't, I don't thing it should be cold. Well, anyway, that's life.