First day of winter and no fire in the stove

Same weather here LP.. Like your weather station with backlighting! BTW it needs new batteries .. I have a few weather gadgets here and love all of them but no backlighting! I would like an AC powered that's lit when the lights are low..

Ray

 

I tend to be very observant aka coocoo lol.. Probably need new batteries in the remote sensor..

Ray

 

I let mine go out yesterday too. Wait till it cools down some more to fire it back up.

 

Did a 1/2 load to take the chill off this morning and the doors are open now lol..

 

I change all batteries at the same time.. They last a year or more here..

 

Fellas, it's totally crazy weather, that's for sure......I've been burning occasional loads here and there to keep the chill, letting each fire go down to only a small handful of coals before putting a small load back in.

Burning mostly some junky red maple (from a standing dead I cut for a friend of mine over the summer) and some blue spruce, that stuff lights off quickly and dies off fairly fast, perfect for weather like this. Honestly, the downpours we are getting are what is depressing. We got a pile of rain earlier, now its foggy as all get-out. I had planned on splitting wood today, but with the rain (and the flu bug I seem to have contracted) I ain't going out and getting wet. I still have one more large load of wood to get from the monster oak job we have been working on since Thanksgiving weekend, 13 huge trees in all.......then a final clean-up and we'll be done at that place. The woman who owns the property was very grateful of the job we did, so much so that she's scheduled a HUGE red oak to come down in the spring......and it's right against her house, so it's gonna be a technical (but doable) job.

Anyways, stay dry fellas and don't fret......more cold will be here soon enough.

 

Get well soon Scott!

 

Ray no matter how hard we try to stay healthy, someone in our house seems to get sick for Christmas. One year, all the kids were sick and my wife and I felt HORRIBLE......we made the best of it, but still, that was horrible for them.....

Big turkey dinner on Christmas Eve for us, lots of family coming to the house so I'll be chugging fresh orange juice and eating lots of oranges from now til then!!

 

I remember as a kid all of us kids getting chicken pox or measles.. Not a good Christmas for any of us!

 

I hear that! My lovely wife is going to be baking all afternoon and all day tomorrow, too! Snickerdoodles........I'm like a daggone DOG at her feet when she's baking them!!

 

Your name looks familiar..