Going to get a little colder tonight. Maybe single digits. But this, so far, looks like a VERY mild winter.
Right around freezing all day today. been cloudy here and around freezing night and day for like a week.
27 here now, only going down to 25 tonight. Have a nice fire going and the house is cozy. Burning mostly ash and red oak. It's finally been cold enough for the ground to freeze (meaning I can drive my truck right up to the dead ash trees that have fallen into my hunting fields without things becoming a muddy quagmire). Might do some harvesting this weekend. Peace and love to you all!
Cool. Hope you enjoy it. The frozen ground with little snow is nice to work on. I was just over your way in Ontario, NY the other day. That was the furthest out I had been on 104. Nice countryside. My son and I saw a couple skidders going out to work and they were turning up mud still. Ground still not frozen deep enough for them yet. LOL
I am about 20 minutes from Ontario. I sure do hope the ground is suficiently frozen, I am getting impatient!
Those skidders were the smaller kind but probably still weigh 10-20,000lbs. Combine that with deep lug tires and it will take a much deeper freeze for them. The ground is not frozen very deep. But enough for lightweight stuff like your truck and small tractors.
Meanwhile it's been very quiet up here where we are used to snow. Been like this for a week. Mild warmish weather and no snow, besides a few flurries.
NOAA had a low of 8 for this area, we're at 3.9 already with some sugar maple and ironwood going in the Liberty.
23 and 68. Just turned down the air on a fresh load of random low grade hardwoods Beauty weather outside with very little wind and a little damp bite to the air.
Totally blew the forecast. Turned out to be periodic flurries with no accumulation. High of 47 today,
Well it's a nice 75 degrees down here this evening, it was 86 degrees at 6 pm. Tomorrow is forecast to be 90, finally getting some proper summer weather! Not burning anything tonight but I might give my new fire pit a burn tomorrow night.
10 here this morning... 6 small splits of oak, 500* stove ... 74 inside, and a hot cup of coffee oh.... and 2 puppies in the lap under a blanket.
11f here. The new insert is keeping the furnace at bay with thermostat set at 68f. I have not pushed the new stove's capabilities yet. Just nice burns with 2 splits of the silver maple I want to burn up before it gets colder here. It is actually pretty nice firewood.
Nice curb appeal on the install Silver Maple was one of the first species I burned seriously in a stove. My dad had a huge SM taken down in his town yard. We split it as a family. Naturally I got the giant rounds! After splitting and stacking it seasoned easily and stored remarkably well for several years. Good enough for me. A balmy 21 and 67 here this AM. Put some air to the stove and grabbed a coffee. Ahhhhh. Nitrodave ? Brittany's by chance? Or something closely related? They look happy!
25f, dry and clear here in the Poconos. Warm as buttered toast in front of an ash and soft maple bed of coals.
