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

Currently enjoying -15 C feels -23 C, or 4 F feels -9 F.While we're actually going to warm up to near normal daytime highs for once, that wind just won't stay away. We might live in a frozen wasteland, but it's usually not a windy frozen wasteland!

 

I miss those guys too!

 

Thats the spirit!! Yeah me as well and I hear you on the warming up, especially if its windy! -24c/-11f here when I woke up. The furnace was helping out the coals until I could do my reload this morning. Its warmed up some since then. Ive been thinking of the bbq but its buried in snow on my little side deck so I have to do more shoveling before I can use it again and I have to many other areas to shovel before I get to that one.

 

Only -6c still here and snowing good. We went for a quick ride and gonna throw a couple of these guys on the bbq in an hour or so.

Got Swamp Maple keeping the house warm.

 

My wife has burned herself a couple times. She learnt how not to. I do split wood small enough for her to handle well. When the option is learn how to feed the wood stove or freeze. The choice for her was simple. I do keep a pair of welders gloves near the wood stove for greater protection if she chooses.

 

43 NG heading out for prime rib

 

It was -29 when I got up this morning . kinda thin overcast at the moment. We'll see what nightfall brings.
Since I do a little welding for myself I already had high gauntlet leather welders gloves . so that's what I use.
I need to make a coal catcher apron for my stove. I've been holding off because I didn't like anything I could think up . Recently tho I've been thinking about an ash drawer made from sheet metal. Just something I could pull out when I hoe the coals forward and load the stove.

 

The little guy here doesn't care too much for it also.

 

Broke into single digits, -9 C feels -17 C, or 15 F feels 2 F. Sure is nice watching coals burn down, and add wood when I feel like it. 78 in the stove room.

 

Mrs Papi used to do the morning load, but a couple years ago she bent wrong on a scrounging trip (to pick up brush, incidentally) and really tweaked her back. Since then no more wood handling except in case of emergency.

Yesterday I loaded light in the morning expecting 30s and an eight hour work day. Instead we had 20s, wind, and a twelve hour work day. So she took up the slack. She's far from a delicate little flower, but I'd feel like a heel having her take up wood handling duties and wind up injured again. Especially with a 14mo baby to wrestle with all day.

 

Warmed up into the upper 20’s last night even hit 30 today. Started snowing yesterday afternoon and hasn’t let up since! Real fine damp kind of stuff that has totaled up to 8” or so. Right now 28 out 71 in running some silver maple.

 

Silver maple is a nice wood - dries fast, good light to medium duty heat. They tend to be huge, fragile yard trees around here. There too?

Just reloaded after a nice 16hr burn on red maple. Still had some split-shaped coals in the boiler.. A guy could get used to this 40 degree stuff.

 

Cleared out the snow from Friday, it was snowing lightly most of the day while I was doing that but it stopped when I was done, only about an inch, supposed to get a little bit more tonight, three or four inches more tomorrow.
I got Silver Maple and Ash Coals in the box right now.

14°F-10°C right now, they say low of 16 tonight

 

By the way that Balaclava I bought worked great out blowing snow especially when it was blowing back at me.
Thanks for the suggestion on that

 

I'm glad it helped !
It was 26 below earlier . Now it's warmed up to 18 below. They are calling for it to warm up this week.
Poplar and black spruce in the stove.

 

Awesome! Heres mine.

 

I was out in the yard tonight and shot these. I need to do some digging before the melt comes. I can dig down in the powdery snow and retrieve dry splits this time of year but once the melt starts they will be a bit soggy. The biggest snow dumps are in February and March around here.

 

Yours looks a lot like mine ;-)
Ill post a pic tomorrow.

It's up to 11 below at the moment.