Feeding the fire

I put a log on the fire last night around 11:30pm. We do not try to keep the fire going all night we do have heat in our house but I do try to keep it from coming on during the day and we have found with what we pay for firewood we save a little money using the stove with lowering our gas and electric bill. Plus if we do have an ice storm or power outage we can stay in our house and be nice and warm. Normally when I get the fire started around 8 or 9 in the mornings there is only ashes in the stove. This morning there was a decent piece of wood still in the stove and when I blew on it there was some embers or whatever the orange glow is called. I only had a few pieces of kindling in the house and I didnt really feel like going out to the wood pile so I found a piece of paper put the little pieces of bark and tiny wood chips that were in the botton of the kindling bucket and set them under the log. Then I slowly started blowing and it took off. I felt like I had won the lottery starting a fire without having to use a match. Especially since those of you who follow me on Facebook know that I caught my hair on fire the other day with a match.

As I was starting the fire and feeling like a real pioneer woman I started thinking. Do I tend to my passions like I do my fire? Well sort of I enjoy my passions but sometimes I let them die out because I know that I am not going to die.  Is that really any way to live? No its not. Every day you need to at least do a little something to tend to your passions. Some days will be easier than others and sometimes the flames will be so hot you wont know what to do. Other days there will just be smoke and you will  not get the flames to catch for nothing. When tending the real fire this is when I go outside and get Mr Ladybugs propane torch and teach the fire whose boss. In life always have a backup plan. When your passions seem to be dying down a little this is where you reach out to others who encourage you and help you fan those flames. This happened to me yesterday when I sweet friend messaged me and asked how I was doing. We messaged back and forth a little throughout the day and it was just what I needed. If they are reading this "Couldahadav8" and you are amazing!

With that I need to get off here and keep the fire going in the wood stove. I have promised Mr Ladybug baked potatoes cooked in the fire with our homemade creme fraiche from yesterdays post. I think I will cook the rest of the dinner on top of the wood stove too.

If you do nothing else today spend at least 5 minutes thinking about where your passions are and start making a plan today on how you can get those flames going. The world needs your passion.