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Duncan

Sunday, September 15, 2002 - 07:49 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Do they ever light the fireplace for anything other than Eviction Night? I don't recall seeing them have an evening in the LR with a fire going.

Catfat

Sunday, September 15, 2002 - 09:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I don't think it is a real fire, anyway. I think it is a video or some other fake illusion.

Foodbunny

Sunday, September 15, 2002 - 09:03 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
It's the end of summer... unless they were going to roast marshmellows I doubt they'd want to have a fire going ;)

What555456

Sunday, September 15, 2002 - 09:03 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
We have pretty warm evenings here -- lows in the 60's-- this time of year. I have a fire place, but the idea of lighting it just does not appeal to me at this temperature.

Wait a couple of months when we get our really cold nights here -- in the 50's -- and then we start lighting them! (Just had to say that for you guys back east and up north! <g>)

Seamonkey

Sunday, September 15, 2002 - 09:17 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yeah.. not exactly fireplace weather.. not that I have one.. I did in my last place and found I lit it about twice in 10 years .

But then I don't have air conditioning either (I'm four miles from the ocean)

Ericzj

Sunday, September 15, 2002 - 09:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
"really cold nights here -- in the 50's"

Don't make me laugh. In two months for Nebraska weather that would be a heat wave! Bring out the shorts and t-shirts. :)

What555456

Sunday, September 15, 2002 - 09:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ericzj

I am always amazed when I am watching a Green Bay Packers game -- or any other game from the north -- and they will announce the temperature is a "balmy" 45 in December and I see these guys in t-shirts, shorts or whatever. I shake my head and think "What are those guys doing?! 45 is COLD!!!!."

<g> It's just depends on each one's frame of reference.

Curlyq

Sunday, September 15, 2002 - 09:58 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I remember Eric trying to light a fire early in the game and one of the other guys making a joke like "Fireman burns down BB house. Film at eleven."

Draheid

Sunday, September 15, 2002 - 10:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Curlyq: I believe that was in the grill on the patio. Not in the fireplace. A search of the LF archives would tell for sure.

Curlyq

Sunday, September 15, 2002 - 10:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks, Draheid. Good idea. This was posted in the lfps on July 13, 12:11 am:

Eric is starting a fire in the fireplace and is reading the instructions carefully. Gerry said "Fireman burns down house. Film at 11:00"

Dahli

Monday, September 16, 2002 - 02:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
It looks like a gas fireplace, I thought I noticed in some outside shots what appears to be the venting. We just finished installing a (woodburning) fireplace so I'm way too aware of anything fireplace related... LOL!!

Costacat

Monday, September 16, 2002 - 02:43 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
The fireplace is fake fake fake (or gas gas gas). And yes, it's tad bit "balmy" now to be having a fire going. It's be just for "atmosphere" and I'm thinking the HGs have all the atmosphere they can handle.

As far as cold... anything below 75 degrees (F) is cold. I'd never make it in Minnesota -- you'd be waiting for the spring thaw to find me. It's all relative but yes, I was born here in San Diego.

Curlyq

Monday, September 16, 2002 - 02:43 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ah, that would explain why they couldn't get it started. The lfps said something about not being able to find the switch.

Twiggyish

Monday, September 16, 2002 - 02:44 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Do what we do here (especially during the holidays), turn down the thermostat, make it reallly cold and then light the thing.

Wargod

Monday, September 16, 2002 - 02:46 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Costacat.......AGREE!!!!!!

I'm up here in the desert....its about 78 today, and right this minute I'm sitting here with goosebumps, contemplating my sweats!

I'd never make it anywhere that they have freezing temps! By next month, me and my wood burning stove will be best friends!

Crazydog

Monday, September 16, 2002 - 02:51 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I thought it was one of those fireplaces where you just push a button on a thing that looks like a remote control and it comes on. My aunt had one of those in Florida, it provides a little heat but not a whole lot. It's more for effect.

I live in Chicago and went to school around here. It always cracked me up how all the people from Texas, Arizona, etc. started to complain to no end about the weather back in September! I always told them that they hadn't seen anything yet!

Texastillie

Monday, September 16, 2002 - 07:21 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I had wondered at the time why they had a fire going the night the HGs first entered the house (summer), but they did.

Classycassfan

Monday, September 16, 2002 - 07:29 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
OH Wargod where on the desert may I ask???
I would give anything to be in Palmdale right now *where I grew up* and not in the pouring rain and wind here on the coast of Washington.... 37 degrees tonite and the wood stove is working away...

Wargod

Monday, September 16, 2002 - 07:33 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Classy........right next door......Lancaster, LOL. Uhm......the wind has been pretty bad for last couple of days, was chilly this morning......but last week we were up around 98-99! LOL

Beagle

Monday, September 16, 2002 - 07:37 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My daughter in law to be (yes they finally got engaged...lol) is from Malibu California. When she first came up here to go to school, she was freezing in September! By october she was wearing sweats, by November she was ready to go home! In early December it snowed and stayed, she loved it from that point on :)



PS She has discovered long johns LOL

Costacat

Monday, September 16, 2002 - 07:41 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Beagle, that's the problem. I hate clothes! So when I go visit family in Colorado during the Xmas holidays, I'm so bundled up I'm like the abominable snowman. Can't touch my toes! And all those clothes don't help if you have thin California blood! They tell me you get used to it, but whyever would I wanna? <grin>

When my family asks when I'm gonna move to Colorado, I tell 'em when California has "the big one" and Colorado becomes ocean front property *and* when it quits snowing! BTW, we are all from here. They relocated. I stayed. I'm the smart one! <grin>

Classycassfan

Monday, September 16, 2002 - 07:43 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
lol Wargod... two funny.... hope you arn't an AVH alumi... but even so I like your posts... lol Love the desert... Miss the early mornin's there when thesun came up over the hills... we needed a fireplace on those cold mornings when ice was dripping off the Yucca trees

Beagle

Monday, September 16, 2002 - 07:45 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL Costacat, you're a trip! I know cold, believe m. I was born and raised in Saskatchewan, which is one of the coldest provences in all of Canada. Our Canadian posters can confirm that. Now we're in BC in the Okanagan Valley, so much nicer, nowhere near the cold and biting wind of Saskatchewan. Now if we had still been there insted of here, the girl would have just gotten right back on the airplane! ROFL

Beagle

Monday, September 16, 2002 - 07:47 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
...and yes I know my last two posts have had nothing to do with the BB fireplace so here goes...

The BB fireplace looks good on the live shows.

I just couldn't think of anything else to say about it, but we gotta keep the thread going :)

Wargod

Monday, September 16, 2002 - 07:53 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hehehe, proud AVH grad here, LOL. Go Big Red! Or something like that, LOL.

Ice dripping off Yucca trees, LOL! Snowmen that have tumbleweeds as heads, LOL. Snow out in the desert....funniest thing to look at!

People in chat laugh at me during the winter.....I say its 15 degrees out in the morning, they start falling out of their chairs. Around here thats cold! We bundle the kids up, in big coats, gloves, hats, blankets.....lock the house up, light the wood burning stove and don't leave!

I'd never make it anywhere colder!