From My Fireplace to Yours

Fio's gotten pretty adept at starting fires. If she'd been with that guy in Jack London's bad-luck story, he would have survived.
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She's also pretty good at eyeballing how much de la lena she needs to bring into the house every day to keep the fire going till bedtime, and it's a lot--at least half a ring. Obviously that boy who tended the fireplace in oldern times was very important.
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Husband was an aristocrat when it came to what went into the flames, but Fio will throw in anything that burns--rotten wood, used Kleenexes, old newspapers, ads that come in the mail, anything.

Did Fiorella tell you that she's using Starbucks bags to haul the ashes out of the house to spread on the lawn? Remember, she's the "everything wants to be of use" girl.
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Sonya Dog is jealous of the amount of time Fio is spending tending the fire and wants Mommy to spent more time tending HER.