Getting ready for Winter – firewood
My list of “to-dos” is lengthy and growing, but the priority is getting ready for the arrival of Father Winter. The largest of those jobs is firewood – the cutting and the stacking. We’ve still got a good stock of logs from our cutting last year, and today’s focus was cleaning up and then getting those logs bucked up and stacked so I can start falling trees again. Inside the portable garage is my wood-and-plow truck – having it under cover will make things easier this year (thanks, Warren!).
The folks who built our house knew how to handle firewood – we can back the pickup right up to this 10×14 foot storage shed (if I cut the wood to furnace length – 22 inches). From there it goes through the little door on the side of the house into a 7×12 foot wood room which is 10 feet from the wood furnace that can heat the entire house.
One row plus a bit of the row behind it is now done…
…and the woodstove is quickly taking the chill off. Today is the first time I’ve lit it since June – I’ve been lazy and just turned up the thermostat for the oil furnace a few times the past week, though.
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