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

It got to 40 yesterday, and 83 inside the stove room. It’s the first time since last summer that I’ve seen my wife in a t-shirt. 29 feels like 21 now so it’s black ice time again. There were some nasty accidents yesterday. 78 inside and it’ll be awhile before the coals are down enough to shovel some ash and reload with less wood than yesterday.

 

Yesterday was awesome, temps in the mid 40's, breezy but it felt great! I spent a chunk of the day splitting sugar maple in the driveway, and pulling it to the back yard by flying saucer. By the end of the afternoon most of the snow on my track had melted, so I'll need the wagon today. There's still sugar maple to be had at the dump, whenever the loader pushes the pile, a couple more rounds pop out.
I let the fire go out yesterday, and I think kitty was upset! Today will be cooler, so I'll stay on top of it.

 

Drink plenty of water! I hope whatever it is, goes by quickly.

 

It’s usually around 80 and she’s still fully dressed It takes a lot!

 

18 F this morning. Maple and Cherry in the Wood Gun. Sun is out. High of 35 projected.

 

Would have felt nice, where I crossed the river on Friday, a buddy went ice fishing. The auger is 4 feet, had to use a chainsaw to cut the top so he could finish the hole.

 

Looks to be another warm one. Hopefully can get to some splitting after work.

 

Hope you feel better our friend.

 

It's Winter.
It looked chilly outside
So,
Pine fire.
Why not ?!

 

Finally stopped snowing.. Yellow thing in sky.. Burning pine 80 inside 30 out and windy

 

-1c/30f with a few flakes falling. Ill take the dog for a slog in the woods and then head off to work. The stove will sit cold until tonight which is fine.

 

Started with 25, their saying 37 today. I would say spring is here. The next 10 days is highs in 40's and low 50's. Staying dry with only a few days of rain.

 

I think I'm fairly certain when I say, the cold weather/polar vortex crap has broke. It's currently 0 c or 32 f right now and was only about -6 c or 20 f overnight. If the forecast holds, we're seriously stuck in normal weather! It's been a trying winter with polar vortex and wind and furnace problems,but I can see the end. Even my fuzzy buddy is happy, sitting out on a snow bank chewing on a stick, watching the chickadees eat deer tallow scraps. Speaking of those poor devils, I've been rationing them tallow for a couple months now. I'm not sure if I'm crazy, but I think they associate the sound of me splitting wood in the shed with chow time. I could go sit on the steps for an hour and no birds, but after a few whacks with the axe, the chickadees start calling, and show up shortly. They're not even leery much anymore when I'm filling the bird feeder. They sit a couple feet away and jabber half the time. I had made a feeder, but the magpies figured how to tip it, so I only feed small amounts on a feeder they can't bump.

 

Rain turning to snow now. 36.0 °F and falling. 72 °F inside. Cherry burning away.

 

While during the day its in the mid 50°F (wind and rain), at night we had the creeping cold at 30°F... cows having a comfy bed anyhow.

Spruce and oak keping the house warm.