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A Perfect Evening to Celebrate 14 Billion (and Fifty) Years
My son Jake and I hopped a cab from George Washington University to an apartment on the other side of DC whose former occupant, we later learned, was Lena Horne. That set the tone for the evening which started with … Continue reading
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What To Do While Waiting For Your Fireplace Grate to Arrive
I receive lots of mail about plunging temperatures and the urgent need for a Texas Fireframe® grate to show up ASAP. I wish I could make the mail go faster, but the Post Office keeps our nationwide shipping rate low. (Thanks Uncle … Continue reading
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Confessions of a Log Scavenger
Free heat. That’s what I see when I look at a discarded log, destined for the wood chipper. I envision that log on my Texas Fireframe® grate, and I can almost feel the warmth coming from it. A large back log will burn late into the evening – hot, slow and steady – with only the front logs needing replacing. Continue reading
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It’s the Dawn of a New Day at the Texas Fireframe Company
After 35 years of bringing hotter, easier-to-start fires into homes all over America, the physicist behind the “Physicist’s Fire” has retired at age 93. But his company and his invention are in good hands; his daughter, Nicole Cranberg, an ardent … Continue reading