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

Cherry and Maple this morning. Let’s hope this is the last day of colder temperatures!

 

27/58 stove was out this morning. That's expected when burning SS wood. Pine, and random uglies to get things going in a positive direction. Sunny day!!

 

Last week we were getting the word that bears were starting to leave the dens and were being seen in NH and Vermont, I turned my electric fence on. I think after this snow and the single digits coming they may have den back up. There is no food for them now.

 

That tractor is worthy of a cold start video.

 

Thankfully it started just fine. Only issue was going through two shear pins (one on the auger and one on the impeller). The auger pin went on the second pass thanks to a tree limb buried in the pile left by the plow (not their fault, we had 80mph gusts on Thursday so lots of downed limbs/branches everywhere). The auger pin was my fault (when I moved the snowmobile trailer to clear around it, I forgot to pick up the piece of wood that I use under the jack). Only two pins I had to replace all season so not too bad.

 

Spotted last night not that far from me. Was on a person's deck and trampled two fences in the yard. I think now that they're out, even two-plus feet of snow isn't going to send them back into their dens.

 

That is so cool. I wish we had some bears around here.

 

Almost 30 degrees now at 11:00am. Standing dead elm and silver maple in and by the stove. I need to get some more wood in today because the next 10 days look more wintery than usual. Actually in a blizzard warning until late Tuesday. Temperature down to single digits and up to 10/12” of snow forecast.
I might go knock off a little bit of the black locust that is sitting in logs and give it a try. Never really burned any of it before.

 

They are cool to watch, but it gets old real quick. They wreck a lot of stuff and, make a general pain in the azz. In one week of June last year we saw 11 bears, some of them cubs, almost hit half of them with the truck.

 

40°f with winds 10 to 20mph out of the wsw. Spitting snow/sleet/rain, it can't make up its mind what it wants to do. Started the fire off with ponderosa pine to get the Arizona white oak going.

 

40/73 was up to 48 and sunny so no evening load. Going down soon to put in the overnight fire. Supposed to hit 60 tomorrow. Ash for overnight.

 

There are reports that they are waking up in the BC Rockies as well although I havent seen any sign in the snow around me yet.

 

17/76 Black Locust

 

33 pin oak, hickory,cherry
I did not have wood burning on March 25 in NC on my bingo card.

 

22. Cherry and Yellow Birch. Going to 51 today.

 

30/70 red oak, aspen and holly skinnies

 

I had 26/64 when I woke. HHO kicked on several times during the night. Lit up a fire before leaving for work to ease the consumption. I have one split left, definitely be bring more in probably this evening.

 

30/72 2 cherry splits going. Getting up to the mid 60's later today.

 

18/65

Plow has to go back onto the truck this morning..........