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

31 here, only going down to 27. Snow's coming. Hickory and ironwood in the quadrafire.

My feet are toasty. Furnace is silent.

 

Expecting a cold week here- 20deg. highs. I sucked it up and brought in 4 wheelbarrow loads of the good stuff. Mulberry and Ash.
I sooooo don't want to burn that yet, but I have it ready in case.

 

We often find that when we get warnings of heavy snow fall we will get less than when theres no warning at all.....

 

Yup, I was out-of-state most of all last week. Checking the weather reports, I expected a foot at the house when I got home last night. 2". 2 fricken inches!
I was pretty happy that was all that had fallen.

 

Nice! Thats almost like leaving for work in the morning in a snow storm fully expecting a massive windrow pushed in your driveway from a snow plow only to find upon your return someone cleared it for you!
Burning some small splits of fir and lodgepole before the larch load for overnight. Its been a pleasant 21F most of the day. Had to go easy on the stove today so I didnt cook us out.

 

I was planning on adding to next year's stacks this last week. Then it dumped rain, and I had to go to the doctor for cough meds as the OTC crap want cutting it. Turns out they sent me home with a strong antibiotic. Cutting wood with a nasty chest cold wouldn't be advisable, but I'm going to get after it really soon.

 

Yeah if you overdo it youll feel even worse. Its hard but best to lay low and recover. Nice thing about being ahead, its nothing to wait a week or two. My bro had a chest cold that lasted several months and finally he went to the doctor and was put on antibiotics, cleared up quickly.

 

Gonna be Thursday or Friday before it gets to a good fire worthy day here. I suspect there will be a couple of declining Ash trees heading azz up between now and then on the lots near me. Ground is saturated beyond belief. I hope some of the walnuts I tossed into the creek last month have made it to the wetlands down the street by now.

 

I'm not much ahead, with a real woodstove now, had a fireplace until a couple weeks ago, I'm uncertain how much wood I'll really use. I am actually heating the house now with wood, whereas I was making the room with the TV and fireplace warm previously.

I figure if I can do 5 cord this winter and spring, I'll be ahead 2 years. Then hit it in fall again and get 3 years ahead, at least.

 

Sorry just assumed..... Ive done the fireplace thing to. I guess you do what you have to do. Nice you're set with a proper wood heater now. For me I took 4 years off from wood burning and purchased my current house 5 years ago and used the fireplace for one year. What a disappointment especially being a previous wood stove owner. We had 4 cords of softwoods put up before the wood stove was even installed. I told my wife we will look silly having that much wood if we dont go through with a stove. Most houses here have a fireplace and you see the token one truck load of firewood stored improperly.

 

There you go again with that secret language.....

 

14 right now. Actually had some sunshine yesterday for about 5-6 minutes. Guess that was enough.
Keep seeing severe weather alert on computer and keep falling for it and logging on to it. 2-3 inches is what they come up with. Along with the catch all phrase, "heavier amounts in snow belt areas".

 

yooperdave I hope you have the stove cranking @14 I know I would

 

We burned about a quarter of a bag of pellets overnight, the temp in the basement was 74, up here it was 70 and the outside temp this morning is 17.

We still had coals in the Liberty so I filled it with Cherry, the Pellet Stove was turned off.

 

Ash and Pine burning away.