Well, so much for the firewood hoarders holiday we had been enjoying...we had light rain last night And tonight it's so warm that I am cooking in my family room with only the coals of a two log fire. Sad face.
Ahh choochin' em out huh? I'm on the precipice of doing that here. The furnace fan will go on before I turn the blower fan on the insert off, or down.
Yeah. Our bedroom the one that is a pain to heat is 71. Talk about a change. I had to turn down the electric heaters. The wife had them cranked expecting another cold night.
I know man, I might sound like a fool, but I loved the cold. It's frickin winter, time to burn, time to bundle up. Not sweat out the day. Rain here too. A mix early on. Getting down to 30 tonight tho. So I got a nice oak n maple goin.
I let my coals go cold about an hour ago. 32 now and 50 tomorrow! House members will start complaining they can’t breathe if I don’t. Lol
No need to go that far. The cold is set to come back after the brief warm up. Then into the single digits... Then back up again? Wheeeeeeeeeee!!!
Warm temps scheduled here for the end of the week. I view a slight warmup as a good thing. It'll give me an opportunity to let the stove cools down to perform a good cleaning before the temps dip back down next werk. As much as I enjoy the heat of the woodstove, any day the AC is of, the furnace is off, and the BTU'S are staying put on my racks, is a good day. Further, it'll be an opportunity to open a few windows and change out the air in the house. Can shoulder wood be called shoulder wood when it's used in the middle of winter? Hmmm.... Sent from my SM-T280 using Tapatalk
50 by Friday, and from what I've heard on the weather we are in a bit of a warming cycle for a bit. The wife will like it, and my dad will be happy. Considering both, I'll take it. Normally I'd not like it. Right now I'm enjoying the snow on the ground. It will not be here much longer with 50 by Friday. Personally I'd love to see smaller storms of 2-3" more frequently, but mother nature does not work that way.
I am cleaning my chimney today. That's a good thing. Muddy and can't get out to cut and split, that's a bad thing. Not burning through my wood stacks like a chain smoking grandma going through Virginia slims, that's a good thing. I'll take it for a week, but hope the ground freezes soon. 20*'s would be perfect.
I used to really enjoy winter but as I've aged a bit, I do not like it as much. I like cool but no longer like the cold. Same with the snow. It used to be I could not get enough. Now I don't care if we even see snow. I'll take the warmer winters, thank you. Perhaps those 5 years we spent near Yuma, AZ spoiled us? Now I'm okay with 20 degrees and up but lower than that is the pits.
Good time to burn the junk wood if you ask me. I find the random softwood chunks and set them aside for weeks like this. Premium stuff needs to be saved for when it really gets cold!
The thing is, it is cold outside, but we got snow early so the ground is not frozen at all underneath the snow. That means MUD while logging, but to get to the trees it means wading through waist deep snow. For early January, it is way too early for snow that deep. Last year we got waist deep snow, but only for a week and it was in late Feb, and then the rains came and it was gone. Saturday we are supposed to get lots of rain, and I am looking forward to that. It does not take much to knock the snow down, and so what it does after that, I really don't care. It can get cold again, but having another 2 feet of snow on top of waist deep snow is just too much.
Yeah we will be in mid fifties here. Absolutely a joke for January. It feels like Winter is getting shorter and more bouts of unseasonable warmth.
These warmer days are good it gave me a chance to let the coals burn down in the OWB so I could shovel some out. Now when it gets colder I have room for more ..
With the warmer temps this week, I'm hoping to drop a few standing dead oaks at my SIL's. Nothing huge. A couple inches on either side of 10 in at the base. As I recall, the tops are broken off already. I'm hoping there's not much rot in them. They felt solid when I pushed on them. I used some surveyors tape to mark them about 6 weeks ago. Fri/sat are supposed to be days that are a washout, with a couple inches of rain forecasted. I'm hoping to get what trees that I can drop, cut up and moved back here to be further cut and split as needed. Probably use the wood for the 18/19 heating season. I won't have a good place to stack it until the spring. But, I'm jonesing to do some cutting and splitting. It's about 4 miles one way to my SIL's. I'll provide pics as I go about it. Sent from my SM-T280 using Tapatalk
