This Christmas was great and we had lots of family and friends in the house.  Actually we had 2 Christmas dinners - one on the 23rd and another on the 25th.  I have been wanting one of those old cast iron wood buring stoves to sit on the front porch.  This is actually a "down home" version of a chiminea that are being sold virtually everywhere - I like the antique style vs the ceramic chiminea.  Now I can sit on the porch in my rocking chair and I have a place to put my coffee cup.  The weather has been a little cold and wet here recently so I built a fire in it yesterday.  It works great.