Re: OT: Chiminera

You're probably right, Sheila.  The one my folks had was in southern
Arizona, and it just didn't get that cold there.

Anne

"14tonks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Besides never having a fire in it, maybe it wasn't out where there was a
lot
> of freezing weather alternating with thaws, creating cracks into which
water
> could leak, and then expand when freezing weather returned.  The things
were
> invented in the Southwestern desert, where there isn't a lot of that kind
of
> weather stress.
>
> &%) Sheila
> To reply to me, you must add the prefix real. to my address.
>
> "Becky Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Kathy"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > writes:
> >
> > >
> > >Does anyone have one? (It is a ceramic outdoor "fireplace", sort of
like
> a
> > >pot-belly stove).
> > >I am coveting one, and since b-day is coming up, asked my DH for one.
> > >However, now my son tell me that a few of his friends have them, and
they
> > >have all cracked. Anyone have experience with one?
> > >
> >
> > A chiminea?  Looks like a big pot with a hole in the front and a hole in
> the
> > top?  My folks have had one for 3 years and it's never cracked.
> >
> > Oh.  They've never put a fire in it.  :-\
> >
> >
> > Becky Young
> >
>