[at-l] Weary, AKA Bob Cummings

[mfuller@somtel.com (Malcolm Fuller)]

Bob Cummings wrote:

> If the book, Housewarming, has a sticker on it, I delivered
> it door to door in 1992. The book was published around 1981.

Okay. I must've drank those brain cells away. The sticker
refers to voting on November 3rd, which only fell on a
Tuesday in 1992 and 1987. Perhaps my folks had another 
copy of the book prior to then, because I distinctly 
remember having browsed it while in high school, and I
was attending college in Canada in 1992.

> Some parts are out of date. Most of the stoves I liked -- 
> including the boiler that you only needed to load with wood
> once or twice a day and it would heat your house for 24 hours
> or longer -- are no longer made.

My in-laws had a Hill boiler. Damned thing took up the
better part of a garage bay. I also know a feller who has 
recently ordered a more modern wood boiler. He's going to
install it in an outbuilding and use hot water running
though tubing embedded in the concrete floor to heat his
home.

-MF