I thought we were done. Cleaned out the ash for the last time. Then this weekend's temperatures dipped and a fire was just the right thing to take the chill off. We'll see how long we keep burning now, but the forecast is trending up so maybe this is the last week of hauling wood to the house.
The days are getting nicer here. But we typically burn into June. This was my drive home from work yesterday morning. It was 19 degrees F.
Cash burns into June then starts talking about the fall shoulder season in late July. Real pretty landscape!
Beautiful area Cash Larue! Well I broke down and had to start a fire tuesday night. The wife was cold from sitting out during the son's lacrosse game. Probably will have one tonight again since there's another game and the stove is our primary heat.
I'm done. Quit! Ka-put. Call it what you want. Had my last this morning. Been a good season , burned a lot and didn't burn down the shack so throwing in the towel. Love burning wood but around this time every year I have had about enough. I think this was the latest into the new year I have ever burned. Shut it down , clean it out and get ready for fall.
Freeze warning overnight tonight so tomorrow morning I'll definitely be burning again. I'm seeing some lows in the 40s in the extended forecast so I won't rule out more fires before I call it quits.
I thought I was done too. But a storm hit this afternoon with sleet and some snow flurries. Had to fire the stove back up again. That’s spring time in this neck of the woods at 7000 feet. Weather report says slight chance of snow tonight. The last hurrah?
We had a high of 69 yesterday and a low 23 later that night with snow warnings. We haven't used any heat for a week and the house is cool/cold, but we are up and running after breakfast making firewood for the last couple weeks when we could, so we provided our own heat. I just can't get myself to burn wood while I'm making wood. Plus we're outside all day so no one is in the house, we don't need to heat it.
I'm calling it done for the season. I have no qualms about burning when low temps are in the mid 40s, but not when daytime highs are in the 60s. Time to put the wood rack in the house away until fall. It's been a long 6+ months of running the stove.
Yup, I took the shop stove down over the weekend and stuffed it in the corner. Shoveled the home heater out and stored the tools away. I might still have I fire in the stove at the camp did in June last year but it’s on to outdoor fires for me.
