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

22/71, oak and ash splits. Snowmadeggon brought 7-8 of snow and sleet. Not supposed to get out of the 20s this week so its not going anywhere.

 

11/68. Shoveled ash out this morning and refilled with oak. Burning nice with deep blue/purple flames.

 

Here's the good news for you!

That snow will settle and evaporate. And If the ground was not frozen, it'll melt-even if your temps are only in the 20's.

 

I sure hope so! We aren't built for this kind of weather here in Central Virginia

 

15 feels like 6. Warming house up with BL. Got about 9" of snow, not sure how much sleet. Plow finally came by around 5 am. Need to finish digging out, then go dig work out, then go dig my mid 80 y/o parents out. Dont know why, they dont need to go anywhere and shouldn't.



Splits under covered porch covered with snow and sleet. Just a PITA all around.

This week will be

 

-32/72 burning a mixed load of Oak and Maple hot! Looks like a slight warm up the next few days then back to average temps by weekend.

 

-5 this morning. The wind is supposed to pick up today and blow snow around and send the wind chills down to close to -20.

The 7 day forecast has every night below zero. That's the longest stretch of negative temps I can remember. If it gets below zero it's usually a night or 2, not 7.

The boiler still had quite a bit of wood in it this morning. Topped it off with some more to get me through the day.

 

17/72. Burning down BL coals from last nights refill. This is after about 8-8.5 hours.

 

........so much for the warm up.


-24

Feels like -44

 

-3/68. Hickory doing its thing. I'm ready for spring.


My name is Mike, and I'm a hoarder in Ok.
Lopi Endeavor and Republic 1250

 

11/74 Black locust, cherry. Maple lumber cutoffs filling gaps.

 

16 heading towards a predicted low of 6. I burned a lot of red oak and tulip poplar all day, but just reloaded with ash and a fat overnighter split of white oak.

 

Down to -1 and going colder. Chunky nigh5 again. Snow so deep my Kawi Mule was fighting to go , went backward better that forward . Shoveling paths from boiler to my wood shed. Cold nights but daytime is tolerable. Today was okay n my insulated bibs. Stayed out a while.

everyone be watchful and safe until this passes

 

73 in. Stuffed the firebox with black locust and put one split of oak on top.

 

8/70 just loaded the Buck with ash and a split of sbh. Got the snowblower running and did 4 drives. On top of testing positive for covid. Yuck, wife tested positive on Saturday after she had been battling what we assumed was a cold or flu. She said I have lost my taste and smell ding, ding, ding I said I am going to get a couple covid test kits. We believe it to be a mild dose. I already had a big part of the week scheduled off work. Prayers appreciated.

 

It got real windy here a while ago. Shakes the whole house.

 

I hope you all get better real quickly

 

0/72 Shagbark