Colder here. What's your temp? What ya burnin?

Okay, we gotta have a talk about This.
They were loggin Maine bald , Long before even any Caucasian settlers had made it to the Midwest. Which was a far gone frontier.
The Peavey was invented in Stillwater / Old Town Maine.
Paul Bunyan was around back when Maine was part of the Massachusetts Colony and they were loggin white pine for English ship masts. Before the Revolutionary War.
Long before there were Ya Der Hey's.

 

Respectfully,
When you dress for Really cold , may be totally different than when me or Tom dress for Really Cold. And if we gotta be out in it, we gotta be out in it. So we dress accordingly. More like Gear up for it.
You ought to see it in the arctic. It gets cold, it stays cold + the wind always is going somewhere.

 

So, I'm very happy to report ,+20° F ambient.
Breeze at 10 to ¹5
White spruce in the stoven

 

It’s cold!
Beech and Maple in the Wood Gun, which is running great!

 

-8*f at the moment. Winter finally showed up. Now we just need some snow… I have been separating the oak out during daytime loading full oak load in the beast currently.

 

It’s a balmy 5 degrees this morning in the northern parts of the Shenandoah Valley. Morning reload of maple, oak and spruce in the Kuuma keeping the house nice and toasty.

 

15 and 70. Honey locust coals burning down in the basement, loaded the fireview with some 5 year css ash. I should have tried to start the fire without a fire starter. Dry wood rules!

 

21f with no wind heading towards 42f for the high. Just may have to go split some wood today.

 

You have a low tire

 

Cold Trigger Finger

This is from wikipedia.

Early references[edit]

The first Paul Bunyan statue (Bemidji, Minnesota)
Michael Edmonds states in his 2009 book Out of the Northwoods: The Many Lives of Paul Bunyan that Paul Bunyan stories circulated for at least thirty years before finding their way into print. In contrast to the lengthy narratives abundant in published material, Paul Bunyan "stories" when told in the lumbercamp bunkhouses were presented in short fragments.[5] Some of these stories include motifs from older folktales, such as absurdly severe weather and fearsome critters.[10] Parallels in early printings support the view that at least a handful of Bunyan stories hold a common origin in folklore.

The first known reference of Paul Bunyan in print appeared in the March 17, 1893 issue of Gladwin County Record. Under the local news section for the area of Beaverton, it reads, "Paul Bunion [sic] is getting ready while the water is high to take his drive out."[11] This line was presumably an inside joke, as it appeared over fifteen years before any commercial use of the Paul Bunyan name. At the time, few within the general public would have known who Paul Bunyan was.

The earliest recorded story of Paul Bunyan is an uncredited 1904 editorial in the Duluth News Tribune which recounts:

His pet joke and the one with which the green horn at the camp is sure to be tried, consists of a series of imaginative tales about the year Paul Bunyan lumbered in North Dakota. The great Paul is represented as getting out countless millions of timber in the year of the "blue snow". The men's shanty in his camp covered a half section, and the mess camp was a stupendous affair. The range on which an army of cookees prepared the beans and "red horse" was so long that when the cook wanted to grease it up for the purpose of baking the wheat cakes in the morning, they strapped two large hams to his feet and started him running up and down a half mile of black glistening stove top.[12]

Each of these elements recurs in later accounts, including logging the Dakotas, a giant camp, the winter of the blue snow, and stove skating. All four anecdotes are mirrored in J. E. Rockwell's "Some Lumberjack Myths" six years later,[13] and James MacGillivray wrote on the subject of stove skating in "Round River" four years before that.[14] MacGillivray's account, somewhat extended, reappeared in The American Lumberman in 1910. The American Lumberman followed up with a few sporadic editorials, such as "Paul Bunyan's Oxen", "In Paul Bunyan's Cook Shanty", and "Chronicle of Life and Works of Mr. Paul Bunyan". Rockwell's earlier story was one of the few to allude to Paul Bunyan's large stature, "eight feet tall and weighed 300 pounds", and introduce his big blue ox, before Laughead commercialized Paul Bunyan, although W. D. Harrigan referred to a giant pink ox in "Paul Bunyan's Oxen", circa 1914.[15] In all the articles, Paul Bunyan is praised as a logger of great physical strength and unrivaled skill.



Interesting. Even though Maine may have had sawmills (50?) near the end of the 17th century, Michigan (Beaverton) is the first reference of Paul was in March 1893. First statue was in Minnesota.



It is interesting to find out that Paul Bunyan originated in Michigan.

Was Paul Bunyan a real person? - HISTORY


Thanks for sparking my interest to research it Cold Trigger Finger !

 

We made to 0 at 7:00. 2 out now and I have a stove full of ash going. 70 inside and the ng boiler is running

 

Forgot to add conditions.

13/67 snowing and windy here.

 

is it time for this yet........ "You kids play nice now"