I grew up with woodstove heat in the house, garage and sauna, we never had running water in the winter months because the line that fed the 6 houses on our rural road froze in the winter so my father hauled water once a week from a well 5 miles away in a 45 gallon drum in the back of a pickup, if we wanted to bathe twice a week my brother and I would collect ice and snow and melt it down for the tub. And then we had chickens and rabbits to raise along with maintaining a half acre of potatoes and two other gardens...then there was the horses to look after. Today, 6 decades later, I have running water year year round, no more horses, chickens or rabbits, I have one garden, I have 2 woodstoves ...with firewood you're always moving, there's never time to fully relax when heating with wood, and I cut, split and haul my own wood. When temperatures drop to -40F the stove eats it's load in 3hrs, but the house stays at +78F . If I don't get my beef and trout at least 3 times a week I feel it, it's a real weakness that carbs just won't fix.

I average 11,000 steps or 5 miles per day.