These were not the considerations likely given to the Timberline stoves though in Idaho where huge mountains and valleys left many spread out and alone to face winters wrath. Here we learn to rely on ourselves and know that help is just down the road or across the street if we need it, even in my town of 700. Where I live in New England it can seem like winter is the dominant part of 3 seasons.Įven now if I travel 10 min away off the mountain top where I live there is no snow, but here we are practically snowed in. Those are the mountains in relief on the Timberline wood stove. Having a reliable and powerful heating source is not a luxury there, it is a matter of staying alive. In the middle of winter when they were snowed in, it was the only way out of the house and every storm he would have to go out there and shovel their roof to keep it from collapsing.īig mountains and valleys, big winds and huge storms are the norm for this area of the country. The house he lived in had a door on the roof. Winters are notoriously difficult in Idaho.Īs a child my father would tell me about living way out in a mountain valley near the Sawtooth National Forest. It is not hard to find love for these old stoves on message boards across the internet, with some owners even retrofitting them with baffles to convert them into reburn stoves, also known as secondary combustion.
These sturdy stoves with screw type vents on their doors helped to develop an American style of wood stove that is still influencing wood stove styling today. Image from The Gingerbread Keepsake Collection.So they developed 2 wood stoves, a single door and a double door stove, and produced both of them in cast iron with relief scenes of snowy hills and mountains.
“They are so much fun to paint, they each have their own personality,” Kelly said. But these festively adorned boys and girls, snowflakes, snowmen, mittens and ornate houses are made of clay rather than the usual spicy brown dough. All three went to Wynford High School.įor the holiday season, the women ready hundreds of decorated “gingerbread” ornaments for personal orders and craft shows. Kelly works from her home in Lykens, where she raised Kymberlee and her youngest daughter Krystle (Stockmaster) Miller. “It’s heartwarming and family oriented, and the ornaments will last,” Kymberlee said from her home in Grand Junction, Colo. Kelly Stockmaster and her daughter, Kymberlee Stockmaster-Wood, produce hand-painted clay Christmas ornaments for their Gingerbread Keepsake Collection.
A family Christmas tradition has turned into a small business this year as two Bucyrus natives make ornaments that look good enough to eat.
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