Bringin' up da Wood

[Andries]

Spike, I'm with you and SwampDonkey all the way.
I like where I am.
There's three or four cords of split dry oak on the North wall and my favorite redhead is in the shop with me.

She's telling me that it's about time to bank the woodstove up for the night.
Call it a day.
I post from the shop or from the end of the sofa in the living room. Both nests are warm but one of 'em is more manly than the other.

[doc henderson]

I have one at work and at home in the shop and waking up from the bed with the news on and drinking coffee.  That could be 4 in the afternoon since I work nights.  That may explain why I have a beer after work, at about 7 am.  Doctors bubble at work.



salt on the floor from the snow and ice.

[Al_Smith]

My nest is 32 x 16 in the house, and 480 sq feet in the shop.  I'm in no hurry to move past winter, best time of the year for me.

You can have my share of winter .I've spent a lot of my life in the cold and the older I get the less I like it . I kind of figured if the good Lord wanted me to be cold I'd have the fur of a polar bear .

[SwampDonkey]

I'm not cold, 80° in the house and 85° in the shop.   I've never been cold cutting wood in winter. Anyone standing around being cold might as well go home and sit by the stove. 

[GRANITEstateMP]

Doc,

I like that you put a hand waving to us in your office nest.

[cutterboy]

I also have been burning a lot of wood since the first of the year. Every day lows around 10 highs around 20 but it is the wind that makes it really cold. Constant wind speed of 15-20mph with gusts up to 40. My house is exposed and really gets hit hard by the wind. I have been in the woods only once and that for only 2 hours. My wood splitter is set up in the barn so I am able to split and stack wood out of the wind but I'm almost finished with the rounds that were stacked up outside the barn.
 Today is supposed to be the last day of the strong wind so I hope to get back in the woods soon. There is no snow on the ground and it is frozen so no problem with the tractor in the woods.

[Wlmedley]

Loaded up the wood rack on the back porch today. No relief from the cold weather for awhile so this will last about a week. Below 0 degrees tonight and more snow for tomorrow. Hoping what is left in my woodshed would get me through February but if it doesn't warm up a little I don't think it will. I've got 4 cords in a shed behind the barn but was planning to burn it next winter.

[Wlmedley]

[Wlmedley]

Here's the stove that's been keeping us warm for the last 38 years. I can only imagine the number of trees this thing has consumed.