Start the video above by clicking on the red box with the white arrow, turn your sound on (not too loud, just soft), and then keep reading …
I think most people who read this blog live in the northern hemisphere of this planet we live on. Oh but yes, there is at least one person who subscribes to this blog who lives in Australia, and another who moves to and lives in the Philippines during our cold northern winter months. So maybe there are other people reading here who are also from this planet’s southern hemisphere, or at least equatorial regions of the planet.
In the month of March (as I’m typing this), the southern hemisphere is enjoying the tail end of summer! But we here in northern climes are still enjoying winter’s chilly days and cold, freezing nights.
The other day I found a YouTube video (the one above) of a really nice, cozy fireplace that was burning warmly and peacefully, along with calm and peaceful piano music playing quietly. I’ve shared it here with you, whether you are in summer or in winter.
Besides reading this blog post while you watch and listen to the video, you can play the video while you simply sit and listen and dream … or do exercises, or yoga, or meditation … or read a book … or talk with family and friends with this as background music (some of us can play the website on our TV too, in order to share the visual) … or while listening, you can look through a photo album that has photos of places you’ve been … or look at online photos of places you haven’t been … or you can do plant care in your house … or dance … or pay your bills … or draw or paint … or do woodworking … or cook … or, simply sit and listen.
I listen to this website two or three times a week. Sometimes I just sit and listen. Sometimes I look back through my mother’s print photos of her life, and of her photos of my young life … sometimes I look back through my own digital photos of my life … sometimes I pay bills … sometimes I listen and plan my next fun adventure (camping soon!). And sometimes I play this YouTube video while I’m drafting my next blog post. 🙂
If the heat of the fire doesn’t appeal to you right now, wait for some cool/cold weather. Or find something else online that suits your mood, without the fireplace at all. Maybe views of the country you live in, or the country you came from, with music you love. Or views of a country you’d like to visit, with their music. Or dance music! Or other quiet, contemplative music. Music is so important to me. Peace is too.
Please share this blog post with others who might enjoy it.
May every one of you reading here find peace in your life and in your heart. I surely appreciate every one of you. Blessings … everyone.
My wife loved fireplace fires and campfires. She didn’t want to build them, she wanted ME to build them. So I learned how to do that. We spent whole summers in our travel trailer. Unless the weather was just too warm, we had a campfire most every evening. I got so I loved to poke at the fire, rearrange the logs, scrunch things up a bit, make it better at least to my mind. Probably my fussing with the fire didn’t make any difference but my wife always said “Perfect” and smiled at me after I’d messed with the fire. Coming up on five years since I lost her. So right now I think I’ll just sit and listen to the video and talk with her. She’ll love the fire … perfect.
Blessings to you too. Thank you.
My heart goes out to you, Greg. I greatly appreciate your honesty and openess here. How everyone thinks and feels is very welcome here. I like to think your wife was commenting on how perfect you are. Ok, maybe the fire too. 🙂
Brought tears to my eyes, Greg. Not sure whether she meant the fire was perfect or you were perfect. Maybe some of both. Bless you.
Not sure what I’ll be doing with this video, while I watch it, but I sure like it! It is really calming.
I had a little tear in my eye too, Tim. I like your comment about maybe she was saying how perfect Greg was (you’ll see my comment back to Greg, borrowing your thought, thank you).
And I sure find the video calming too.
What a great video. For me it’s a great reminder of the fireplace fires we had where I was raised and lived as an adult in Ellensburg, WA, for so many years/winters. Nevada is great, and well it can be boring. 🙂 Give me a real fire!
Indeed, there’s nothing like a real fire … campfire or woodstove or fireplace!
No kidding, I was raised in Minnesota, hubby too, with PROPER winters! and fireplaces. Now we live in the southwest in a permanently parked RV and it’s wonderful but it sure isn’t the same. Give me a proper fireplace! Thanks Ann, you’re the best. 🙂
Oh I bet Minnesota has real winters! and real fireplaces! You are welcome, Wanda, always. 🙂
Delightful!
🙂
I don’t usually like this kind of “canned” repetitive music, but this one works for me, and works really nicely. Maybe it’s because the crackling sound of the fire adds to the music. AND, I paid my bills earlier today while listening to the video. I was definitely calmer! 🙂
Ha! If the process of paying bills can be calmed by this video, then it’s a great video. 🙂 I don’t usually like these kinds of videos either, Olivia, but this one seems different.
What a cozy, warm fire and nice quiet music. Today here in BC, Canada, it was almost summer, it was about 22 degrees (71 Fahrenheit) so we were out doing yardwork in our shirtsleeves, but tonight it’s supposed to get down almost to freezing, and we don’t have a fireplace! So this video has been perfect to keep us warm and cozy. Jim has bookmarked the video website!
Janey
Oh yes! The weather down here was just like yours up there. Wasn’t it wonderful?! 🙂 And yet, the temps have been around 38 degrees F (and colder) at night here. So make sure Jim keeps that video bookmarked for sure. Thanks Janey.
We’re in central Mexico for a month or so, visiting relatives. Not cold here!! 🙂 But that fireplace and music are wonderful, so calming. Really is the best one we’ve seen online. We’ll keep the link handy for when we get home to the snowy mountains of northern California.
Hola desde Estados Unidos de América! 🙂 Of course there are mountains in Mexico with snow in the winter, and freezing temps, but you must be closer to the water, ¿sí? It’s been so cold here this winter, although not much snow, that I sure like hearing about you folks being in a warm climate. Many people don’t realize that California has very high mountains and very COLD mountains. Safe travels you two. 🙂
Can’t tell you how many campfires I’ve built in my backcountry hiking days. Outdoor campfires at night are mesmerizing. And yes, you just gotta mess with them, and fuss with them, and poke at them. 🙂 This fireplace fire in the video was real close to the feel of an outdoor fire. Not sure I needed the music but even it was real nice. Thanks for the memories. 🙂
Steve, I bet you are a pro at building campfires. You’ve probably built thousands of them. I have a friend (also an Escape trailer owner) who might compete with you in that regard, but I think you might win based on how many you’ve built over the years. She too messes and fusses and pokes at her fires. Hmmm, maybe that’s the sign of a really good, professional campfire builder. 🙂
Dear Ann Towhee, for what it’s worth I just threw ya 10 bucks on paypal. I hope that helps in your journeys. I’m new here so I’m wondering a couple of things unrelated to the Fire-music post, as wonderful as that can be on a cold winters day.
As I’m getting up there in age I’m wondering if your 75 now or 75 when you began the blog and are now in your 80’s still traveling? Second, you point out your second travel trailer is the 2018 one??
You seem to understand these travel trailers well and I’d love a link to see the new one that you purchased. It likely has features in it that you did not have in the old one but learned you needed/wanted in the new one and I’d be interested to learn.
Finally, I found you through the Bayfield Bunch Blog links. A blog that I’ve been reading for a decade or so now.
Hi Jack! Welcome to the blog. Thank you for the $10! I haven’t spent it yet, but will soon. 🙂
I am currently 75. I try to keep the info current on the blog pages. I knew a fellow who was almost 90, and yet he was still operating his 45-foot power boat (an old wood one) by himself and doing well at that. So I’m hoping to continue camping with my travel trailer for a good number of years yet.
My first travel trailer was a very lightly used 2012 20-foot Rockwood Mini-Lite. I camped with that trailer for one year, learned what I liked, and learned what I didn’t like, and then did lots of research and ended up ordering a brand new custom built 2018 21-foot trailer from Escape Trailer Industries in Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada. I still have that trailer and love it … that trailer is “Towhee the Trailer”. You can use the link on the right side of this blog to get to the “BLOG ARCHIVES” … go back to 2017 and take a look at “The BIG decision” … then in 2018 start with “Finalizing the new trailer options” … and then move on from there. If there’s any other info you’d like, feel free to ask. I still have the original documents, and my original lists of options, and MANY photos. There are other readers here who are life-long RVers, several of them, and a number who currently own (or used to own) an Escape trailer.
Bayfield Bunch is great isn’t he? (they) I still subscribe and read there too. Nice to have you here, Jack. Pull up a chair.
Might seem odd, but I’ve been doing my woodcarving projects while listening to this wood fire video. So peaceful. Great video, love it.
I’ve done a little bit of woodcarving too, Ruth. And I hope to get back to that, having kept all my tools over three household moves. And yes, working by hand with and loving “real” live wood might seem anathema to watching wood burn. But I get it. Nice comment. Thank you. 🙂
A glass of wine, the one you love by your side, a cozy fire in the fireplace, and some sweet music. What could be better. Ok, maybe being on a boat too. 🙂
Oh, amen! 🙂