How do we stay warm when it's -45?

Our house is a very very very fine house.
We added the insulation and thick vacuum sealed windows in 2006 before Sierra was born.
It used to look more quaint-- a log cabin. But it wasn't warm.

Our mud room-- i.e. firewood storage!
I have a curtain that hangs over it so we don't walk in
and see stacked wood!

This is our wood stove. It is not much to look at, but it works well.
The wood goes in the top hole, just below that there's another door that controls the draft- if the door is open all the way the fire roars and if it's closed is smolders and burns longer.

That is what we do at night.
Peter makes a huge fire and then fills the stove full of logs and shuts it all down for the night. Today there were still coals at 5 am!
It is an art though, too much wood and we're sweated out and too little and it gets COLD.
Peter's a fine artist and knows just how to do it!

That wall that is right next to it gets super hot and holds the heat.
Even after the fire is out, it stays warm for about four hours.

The pipe runs down into the stove fire and the water in heats and rises up and causes the radiators to get warm with its convection current. The hotter the water gets the faster it moves through the system, recycling the heat in the pipe,through the fire.
Our pretty Christmas tree and
radiator that is circulating hot water from the fire.

The man that makes it all happen! What a wonderful husband!

Cool shot, huh? The view from
my kitchen window. Look at all the chimneys-- fires all around.

Since no one feeds the fire at night, it is pretty chilly in the morning. Once again, Peter, my knight in shining armor, starts the fire while I am still snug in my bed. :) I'm spoiled.