Thank you, dear @buckaroobaby !! This is such a beautiful response! :-D Yes, my cantina/ cellar is quite cool BUT the new behemoth stove is actually warming and drying it out - so I may have to move a few items further downstairs into a lower cantina, out of the heat from the stove! Yes, we're just turning to later autumn now, and proper cool settling into the stones of the medieval quarter...

I've lit the stove for the first time during the day, today... and am drying orange rinds on the top of it - perfuming the house gloriously. Mmmm: dried herbs sometimes seem to have more potent perfume eh, as the active components of the leaves or branches dries out: I tend to use many plants in dried form, as they are convenient in terms of not having to use them within a short time-frame, but also I intuitively sense that they are potent that way :-)

Blessings on your day!