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

oops......?

 

19/68 with wind again.

 

30/68. Warm up starts today. Headed back to the 60’s for a little bit.


Mike in Ok

 

Definitely an oops!

Was 17 out this morning when I re-stoked the fire. 72 inside. Used all chestnut oak. Drafts full open for about 5-10 minutes, then full close, took the dog out and see this:


Nice and clean for the next 9hrs.

 

It's finally warming up today. Supposed to be in the mid 40's. Burning down a pretty deep coal bed from ash and elm this AM. My wife was at home all weekend and manning the fire, It was super cold, like record cold even in Southern Wi. I'd have to look but it was probably in the low teens here.

70 degrees in the back hall enjoying being off work, already at home with a Buck hanging from deer hunting, slept in, and will use this day to move more firewood from the shed to my patio stack.

 

8* with the spruce keeping it warm. Looking forward for more snow. Another foot would and the snow machine ride’s would be epic.

 

sure looks like the catalpa I have been processing, trading, and burning that i got in Spring. But heavy? that's definitely not typical of catalpa, that's for sure, that picture though, sure looks like catalpa to me.

 

Neighbors after looking at your clean burning chimney on full chooch " why do you need all that wood? you clearly don't burn any of it"

 

18/70 elm and hackberry keeping the chill off,

 

It seems like a theme with many of us that temps are on a warming trend. Im sitting at -19c/-2f which is 2c warmer than yesterday if I recall correctly, and a few degrees warmer than Saturday. Snow coming tomorrow but only a small amount if the weather guessers are right.

 

35F/68F Balmy and sunny. Looks like an extended warm up into the mid 30's to even possibly 40. For days. Crazy after our cold stretch. Sure lessons the load on the old stove. 20.25 hrs since the last load and the house is still toasty. Happy dance at that reload rate.
Now to get outdoors and get some things done! Thinking primarily fishing

 

Cant beat the burn times on those blaze kings! Do you have any hard water for fishing yet?

 

Zero hard water thats safe yet. That I have heard about at least. I primarily fish streams and rivers. Not to get sidetracked..... Haaa

 

15F this morning... 70F in the house after a strong night of burning ash! More ash today!

 

Got home to 37/69. Brought in a bunch of chestnut oak bark I had piled up at my fire pit. Just enough coals to light it off. Didn’t take much!

Whoops


And reloaded with it.

 

Well, you burned EVERYTHING out of that pipe

 

In the north woods of Wisconsin, with single digits for lows and barely hitting double digits in Fahrenheit, the Wisconsin River was starting to freeze up pretty well just this past weekend. My judge of winters here are based on if the rivers/ lakes up north are freezing over a little during the gun deer season. Well, opening weekend of a 9 day hunt and the river is struggling to remain open, and lakes are already off a good start with no open water. So we're already off to a good start for fishable ice.

 

A fellow bark burner!

 

25/70 got some red oak on the menu tonight.