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

It's 35 but we let the stove go cold after this mornings fire, nothing will go in the liberty tonight.

 

I let mine go cold this am. Upon getting home, I cleaned out ashes, and there were still coals.

While it was warm outside today, low 50's, upon getting home, it felt cool.

So I loaded a few elm splits on the coals and it's nice and warm inside now.

 

Some of my family also just got home from a week at camp. They were all empty handed, yet were in prime hunting territory. No venison for jerky

 

Or run the sewing machine. You are going to have a lot of wind there and it will take its toll on you flags. Had a big wind here that took the flag, the pole and the brace that held it in place for the past 20 yrs. Must be out in the woods someplace. I can't walk in the woods, so not able to go look. I have a replacement.

 

Tempted to not have a fire tonight, as it's still 72 IAT, and 44 OAT. Going down to 40OAT by about 4 am.
Maybe I'll just wait til morning and have one to take out the chill again.
I thought for sure we were headed into winter a few days ago.....was really looking forward to having continuous fires.

 

Yeah its so much easier than having to start them again. Splitting kindling..., making another top down fire, using up fire starters. Its really not a big deal but when you do it over and over and over again for months it gets tiring, at least for me. Id rather rake the coals forward and add a few splits.

 

33 with heavy fog. Ash splits warming the system back up. I cleaned the boiler out yesterday and after several cleanings now have a pail full.

 

Well, fooled again.
InAccuweather said low of 40, and it's 30 at 8 am. IAT was 61. Only took a few minutes from a cold stove to get it choochin over 500, so the IAT is climbing. We'll see if it actually gets up to the forecast high of 50.
Life goes on.

 

12 degrees out w/ 4" of snow, Lopi Endeavor loaded and stt sitting at 400. Nice and toasty in here!

 

Hello LongShot. I found it interesting that you would be 12f/-11c. Ive never been to New Mexico before so I decided to look up the weather of your state. I noticed that the state cold record was in Gavilon in February 1951 and reached a bone chilling temperature of -50f/-46c! Do you live at a fairly high elevation? What do you burn there? Stay warm!

 

We had 33 this morning so we still haven't had a fire yet but that will change soon.

It's 45 out with the rain moving in.

 

I'm gonna' take a stab and say........cherry?

 

Hey there, Sean. My wife and I live just north of a little village called Jemez (pronounced Hey-miss) Springs, about 50 miles due north of Albuquerque and 30 miles west of Santa Fe (as the crow flies.) We're at 6600 feet elevation in a large canyon that runs north/south. The top of the canyon is at 8200 feet, so cold air flows down the canyon. There's a small community at the top of the canyon called La Cueva and those folks say we live in the banana belt! The low thre this morning was 3 degrees. Before the Spanish invaded in the 1600s, the canyon was home to about 30,000 members of the Jemez tribe. Their pueblo (reservation) is 15 miles south of us, and Los Alamos is 35 miles northeast by highway. The mountain range is the Jemez Mountains, an ancient super volcano, and the center is a huge caldera (about 20 miles in circumfrence). It's an amazing area to live in. And thanks for asking about it!

 

oh, and folks around here burn ponderosa pine, doug fir, shagbark and alligator juniper, and the occasional oak.
Not much oak here, though.

 

Yes sir.

 

Aren't you running low by now?
Oh....never mind, you're a hoarder. Wut wus I thinkin'?

 

40 degrees with light, cold rain. Ash and some Pine cut-offs from the barn getting things heated up for the night.

 

Outta' make you feel good knowing the horses are out of that weather.

 

We still have 5-6 face cord left, maybe more.

We plan on burning it until January or when mother nature says otherwise.