I stoked the furnace too, and carried buckets upstairs for the cast iron, pot belly kitchen and living room stoves, and fired them up, too. I had to keep checking the coals and stoke when needed. Both Grandparents places were always toasty warm. Then came steam heat radiators and a few years later, huge forced air vents in the floors. AC was a few years away in the early-mid-60s, and Dad and I installed multiple window units - the first in the towns they lived in - to the amazement of the villagers.
Algore is such an asshole. ☺