What's Mine is Mine, Not Yours
Many people here carry on the tradition of warming their houses with the cocina económica , or wood stove. Some, like us, can only warm the kitchen really well. Others have adapted it to carry heat to other rooms in the house, much like a boiler does. However it is used, it needs wood for fuel. Cut up logs can be bought and delivered to your door. You simply have to chop them further if they're too big, and stack them in your place of choice. But some people think that at over a hundred euros for a badly filled tractor, it's expensive. So they, like we, go roaming the woods for firewood. We're lucky. My mother-in-law has a few large patches of woods where firewood can be harvested and then the patch replanted. Sometimes the trees just grow on their own. We also tend to go out after storms, to see if any dying tree has been blown over. We do not go into private property uninvited because there are eyes in the woods. There are also large swathes of common woods, owned by...