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Originally Posted by Barefoot
Me too. Remember the oil barrels full of burning leaves? Great for a country acreage. I loved burning leaves and playing with the horses. Sigh. I guess, as we grow older, we have more sensitivities, and we need to be respectful, when living "elbow to elbow".
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It's true about having more sensitivities as one gets older.
We always LOVED the smell of wood burning as we'd walk past homes with fireplaces.....in our teens, 20's and 30's.......maybe even into the 40's.
When we bought our first home, it didn't have a fireplace......but in our second home in Vermont we built a floor to ceiling white granite fireplace with raised hearth......burned wood all the time.........loved the smell of the burning wood.
In our next house (after we moved back from Florida) we had a traditional red brick fireplace with mantel and also burned wood all the time for relaxation.......the kids loved to sit by the fire at night.
WE'd keep cords of wood on hand. Still liked the smell of wood "smoke".
However, somewhere in our 50's the "smoke" began to bother us.
Go figure. Prior to that, it was our elderly neighbors who complained of people burning wood in their fireplaces.
Now, we only use the fireplace during the holidays and are going to convert it to GAS..........it will still look like a flame..........and provide warmth in the event we lose our oil furnace during a power outage.
Our homes are not close together here like they are in Florida..........but wood smoke travels through the air...........so out of respect to the neighbors, we would get a gas fire pit as we would not want our smoke to bother anyone where the homes are so close together, back and side.