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

I thought that only happened in Tennessee?

 

High today was 20, beautiful sunny day and felt quite nice. While walking back toward the house with Artan, I observed that the snow has covered the two bottom (and in some places three) rails of my garden fence. Got to thinking about the impressive number of green frogs we had living in our yard last summer (yes, it was that wet), and wondering where they had settled for the winter, and how they were doing, what the population will be in the Spring. Then this evening was in the kitchen doing dishes and instinctively looked to the screens...of course, to check for spring peepers and silk moths. I think I'm ready for Spring.

To get on topic, I hit the corner of my stack that had 12 inch splits from the bottom rounds of a sugar maple. They are short and sort of squarish. I'm considering packing the stove with them later tonight. closing everything down immediately, and seeing how long the stove runs with 300 degree or higher stovetop. It's supposed to get pretty cold tonight, so not sure I am going to do that, as opposed to leave the air open a crack for slightly hotter burn, but I may. Have a feeling I might be able to get a lot of wood in the stove with these shorter splits.....and for small splits they have minimal surface area, so might burn longish, if I try for that.....we'll see in a few hours. IF I do, I'll post the result.

 

6 here this morning. Ash overnight and Pine through the day today. Hopefully you guys enjoyed the warm up we had yesterday. Anyone go swimming? Going back to cold for a while now.

 

21* outside, 70* inside on a couple mixed splits

 

11 out
Light mish mosh mix and 20 lbs coal.
Supposed to hit 36 here today.

 

29f. One oak round with a couple of pieces of slabwood. Mid 70s inside. Feels almost cool compared to the mid eighties wifey was keeping it for the last several weeks. I have today off, so after a quick trip into Muncie, I'll head up to Dad's for some more dead hickory, bring his trash tote back from the road, and a little visit.

 

We had -7 this morning, the boss took care of the fire last night (I'm not feeling that good, hopefully it's not a cold or flu) so I think she burned the same combo, Yellow Birch and Sugar & Soft Maple.

We pretty much burned the Pellet Stove from 10 last night until this morning, we'll be pushing in more Beech for this cold snap coming in.

With this cold snap coming in we'll be burning both, I made sure we had enough pellets at the house, 18-20 bags ready.

 

Talk about different forecasts. Accuweather calls for snow starting this afternoon, Environment Canada starting tonight. Accuweather calls for -19 degrees F tomorrow night with winds at 17 for wind chill of minus 39F. Environment Canada calls for -4 degrees F. That 15 degrees is a huge difference.

Just saw that Spring is forecast to be late/cold. 15 - 20% more ice cover than usual on the Great Lakes, providing additional cooling to downwind regions, beyond the expected cold Spring caused by expected wind patterns from the NW. Guess I'll wait a few weeks to start my tomatoes.

 

News on the TV are calling for the big chill this weekend Sherwood and the watertraughs are gonna get filled with the hot stuff tomorrow.
Stay warm eh!!

 

28º out right now and expected to go to 19º tonight then that is the high for tomorrow before the mercury dips below the 0 mark tomorrow night. Have plenty of hickory, oak and beech on deck, bring it, I love how the Buck burns when the air will freeze the snot in your nose.....LOL

 

Thats to dang cold of booger stiffening weather for NE Ohio, be bringing a couple extra loads of elm/locust mix in myself. Had enough of that polar plunging vortex stuff …..

 

18ºF out on the way down to 10ºF
73.4 in


brought in 24 hours worth of red oak and the porch bin is now empty
close to or at 0º the next couple of nights.

glad I have oak but I really hate seeing it disappear

 

Downward plunge starts for us tomorrow night. Down to -26 f by sunday night. Into the Beech and Hard Maple for that................Everybody stay warm !!!!!

 

10º and snowing right now. 2-4" maybe here overnight. Getting ready to go down and load up the boiler when it turns on next. Then I'm going to get some momentum going and bounce up the stairs like the basketball I feel like after eating all that food. LOFL It has been a good day though. I brought enough Ash into the basement to get us through each overnight burn for the next 6-7 days. More Pine to come in soon as well to burn while we are around to tend to it every 4 hours or so.

 

Environment Canada says it is 26F in Kingston at the moment, accuweather says it is 12 here. That's a huge difference for the about 30 miles as the crow flies difference in location. Weather Canada has decreased its expected overnight temp tonight to -12, and accuweather has increased theirs to -13, so they now agree, and that's likely where we will be. Plus strong NW winds to get us down to that temp. Kingston, 38 degree drop in under 24 hours. Usually keep about three days of wood in the house (plus three days worth I ignore). Will probably bring a bit more in this morning, so I have enough to last through Monday or Tuesday, since it is going to be quite cold until then. Then I only will have to bring a piece or two in each time I walk the dog, to let me wait and close a warmer day to reload the house stack.

Loaded three splits of sugar in yesterday evening, and one beech and two smaller sugar when I woke at three. Stove is at about 400 with lots of fuel in there still. Taking Artan for a walk in a few minutes.

 

14º on the back porch and Ash and Pine burning in the Wood Gun. The cold is on the way. Sometime today or tonight I will bring in more Pine and then we will have enough wood inside for 7 days at least. I may take some down time from outside work if the wind is blowing this weekend.

 

Hang on, here we go. -21 f here tonight with wind chill of -33 f. Cold,cold,cold the next several days.
Enviorment Canada has issued a EXTREME COLD WARNING in this area. Now the wood piles will start moving. Everybody stay warm and keep a check on any elderly or infirmed that you may know of.

 

We had 21 degrees this morning, we just burned the wood stove last night.

We're at 0 tonight, with the realfeel we'll -31 to -35 tomorrow morning so we'll be running both the wood & pellet stove for the rest of the weekend.

We moved in a chit load of Beech tonight so we should be set for another week, we still have another three loads of Beech left but after that we'll have to burn the Ironwood.

 

Same temp here right now thewoodlands. 0º in 0 burg. That is what many use to call this place when there was nothing to do. Zero burg. LOL

 

We made the list, not a good one.
http://northcountrynow.com/news/mas...-most-dangerous-places-new-york-state-0136499