My friend and fellow sauna enthusiast Dan told me that there’s a thing called the 200-degree club. You become a member by taking a sauna with a 200 degree difference between the temperature of the sauna and the outside air temperature. I was intrigued, but sure I could pull that off, at least in this first year of real sauna (wood-fired) ownership. Well, Mother Nature decided to help out couple of weeks ago, when we had -17 F temps. I …
Month: February 2023
The roads to our house is 1.7 miles long, from pavement to our dooryard. My neighbor and I are basically the only two humans that perform any sort of maintenance on it. Another young fellow helps out with some repairs when it gets bad but his job prevents him from doing much of anything in terms of snow removal and related tasks, so that leaves it to two old geezers. We split the cost of what we thought was a …
When I built the sauna a few months ago, I decided to place it right beside the exercise studio, on the opposite side of the dooryard from the house. By the way, for those of you not from New England, a dooryard is the area in front of your house that you drive into and park. You don’t really have those areas in suburbia, where people often just drive up in front of a garage, or if it’s a fancier …
I’ve been wanting a sauna – a real, wood-fired, outdoor one, not the infrared type that we had before – for the past year or two. There’s nothing quite like a sauna to take the cold out of your bones, and after experiencing them when I was younger, and then again a few years ago in Europe, the desire was stuck in the back of my mind. My friend Dan seemed to get a great deal of enjoyment out of …