Picture it.
It’s eleven on a winter night. The sun set hours ago, and outside the temperatures are well on their way to zero. It snowed and a blanket of white meets a blackness filled with stars.
But inside, there’s a fire in the fireplace. The flames dance hungrily across a combination of chopped pine and cotton wood logs. The fire illuminates the room, the soft dancing light filling some shadows and making others deeper. The warmth fills the room like warm smoke and chases away the outside chill.
I lay on the old white couch, a blanket over me, and I watch the fire through half closed eyes. I wonder what the light on my face looks like. The light show it casts softly dazzles my brain and settles me into a warm embrace.
I sleep wrapped in a blanket and warmed by the fireplace fire as outside the cold marches past.
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White couch?
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My parents had this couch. it actually turned into a bed, but I never slept on it that way. It was actually vinyl and not that uncomfortable a couch to sleep on.
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Yes, Richard, a fireplace is helpful during the cold winter months. I replaced our wood fireplace with a natural gas fireplace. In some ways, I miss the wood fireplace, but the natural gas fireplace is easier to start and doesn’t require a supply of firewood.
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There is that. We’ve been talking about putting a gas fireplace in the living room. That’s about as far as that’s gotten so far.
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