Great to be keeping up with the Bots! I followed that account, it would be a good way to help keep track of how you're doing each day. Are you always on the list? I didn't go back to look.
Good thoughts about the stove, it would not have to be used everyday. I will have to look around and see who does wood stove installations in the area. I think I would like that. My daughter-in-law is a mosaic artist and over Thanksgiving she was sizing up my fireplace and talking about how much fun it would be to reface the tiles that are on there with Mosaic artwork. I would love that. Maybe I could tie the entire project together.
I do not have a basement. Although there is a concrete crawl space underneath the entire house, it is only 4 ft tall, because of my proximity to the river. It is accessed through a hole cut in the floor in the electrical closet in the garage. No stairs, so it would not be practical for storing much of anything because of the difficulty in getting it up and down.