Exotic Beauties

wsherrick · Post by **wsherrick** » Mon. Dec. 12, 2011 4:30 pm

firebug wrote:A friend of mine used to live in Reading PA for over a year - really liked PA when I came for a visit.... the wooded mountains look very much like the region I´m coming from, plus the climate... decent winters with snow and frost -very much to my liking! And Pennsylvania Dutch sounds very much like our regional German dialect
By the way: will you be posting videos of your newly acquired parlour stove on youtube? that´d be great! It was actually your videos that made me read more about coal, antique stoves and the entire subject! Needless to say that your videos are very informative....

Yes, I will do a video on the Glenwood No 9. I have been working a lot lately and as soon as I have the time and am not totally exhuasted then I will get it made. I am really glad you liked the videos on the big Glenwood.

Post by **franco b** » Mon. Dec. 12, 2011 4:42 pm

firebug wrote:I´m so upset right now, moving is a serious option for me when push comes to shove

Forget the stove. Save your money and get a place of your own even if you have to sit on orange crates for furniture. Someplace a bit more rural where officialdom is not so overbearing. Someplace where someone with resourcefulness and imagination not willing to behave like the rest of the drones can find outlet for his needs. That's why my grand parents left Germany and Austria. They didn't like the pointy helmets.

Freedom is just not with the big things but also with all the little niggling things that a big brother government uses to return us to serfdom.

nortcan · Post by **nortcan** » Mon. Dec. 12, 2011 8:00 pm

They want to keep the historic value of you area and don't for an antique valuable stove to bring back the good side of history.
Canada is also a good place if you can't solve the problem. Hope you can get the $$$ back if impossible to use it.

smithy · Post by **smithy** » Mon. Dec. 12, 2011 8:08 pm

franco b wrote:
firebug wrote:I´m so upset right now, moving is a serious option for me when push comes to shove
Forget the stove. Save your money and get a place of your own even if you have to sit on orange crates for furniture. Someplace a bit more rural where officialdom is not so overbearing. Someplace where someone with resourcefulness and imagination not willing to behave like the rest of the drones can find outlet for his needs. That's why my grand parents left Germany and Austria. They didn't like the pointy helmets.

Freedom is just not with the big things but also with all the little niggling things that a big brother government uses to return us to serfdom.

I like the way you think franco b btw have you a tri corn hat?

Post by **franco b** » Mon. Dec. 12, 2011 11:02 pm

smithy wrote:I like the way you think franco b btw have you a tri corn hat?

Been looking for one but they have gone out of fashion along with most of the ideals they symbolized.
Everybody wants freedom until they find responsibility goes along with it and then they sell their birthright to the first sleazebag who promises them something for nothing.So now we have a whole new crop of robber barons who steal trillions. Legally.

What would George Washington say? Or better yet what would he do?

firebug · Post by **firebug** » Tue. Dec. 13, 2011 4:42 am

nortcan wrote:They want to keep the historic value of you area and don't for an antique valuable stove to bring back the good side of history.
Canada is also a good place if you can't solve the problem. Hope you can get the $$$ back if impossible to use it.

Hell, no! I´ll stick to my cast iron baby!

We´ll have a place of our own sooner or later. A stove will be very useful there, even if I shouldn´t get permission to use it in the rented appartment

firebug · Post by **firebug** » Tue. Dec. 13, 2011 5:00 am

franco b wrote:Save your money and get a place of your own even if you have to sit on orange crates for furniture. Someplace a bit more rural where officialdom is not so overbearing. Someplace where someone with resourcefulness and imagination not willing to behave like the rest of the drones can find outlet for his needs. That's why my grand parents left Germany and Austria. They didn't like the pointy helmets.

Freedom is just not with the big things but also with all the little niggling things that a big brother government uses to return us to serfdom.

my grandfather on my mother´s side came over to Germany from Chicago, you know... Was quite content with life over here - and his German Fräulein, I suppose

Moving to some place a bit further out is indeed the plan. It got awfully loud here since the near by airport built a new runway earlier this year. As soon as I´ve finished the Master Thesis I´m currently working on (on top of my regular job) - and as soon as the better half´s appointment-process as a civil servant is completed - we´re gone! We´ve both had it with living in the city...