I finished putting up a car-siding ceiling for a friend and wore pants and a long sleeve shirt in his house. His in-floor heat takes a day or two to catch up when the weather changes this fast. He'll be sweating tomorrow. We pulled his ac units out and got him ready for winter. The ceiling turned out great and provided us with some nice dry pine kindling from the cutoff's and trim scraps. I have been taking my 15 year old along to learn, and he is getting pretty good at it. I was the helper today with sore hips. He should make a good living if he keeps at it. He already buys food/clothes for himself. He has the cleanest room in the house, too. I'm proud of him. He helps with firewood too. He can stack firewood like nobody's business.
Had our first fire of the season. It wasn't overly cold this morning (45), but thought why not. Also to kill off any stink bugs that got into the flue.
We've been having relatively small and cool shoulder season fires for a couple weeks now. Generally just enough to take the chill off...no long hot fires yet. And loving every minute of it. It is soooo nice to have a little heat without twisting the thermostat for the gasser....
It was 48° this morning. First time I've worn long pants since spring. Helped a friend burn some brush piles this morning, felt kinda good. They burned quick, which was good. It got back into the 80's this afternoon. I like anytime we can turn off the AC...
When this thread was first posted I was like "heck no I'm not feeling it...its still too stinking hot here!" But the last 3-4 days its been 40's at night and 60's during the day (nice!) and the house temp started dropping slowly...lit off our first small fire in the lil fireplace stove last night...took the house from a damp 68* to a perfect 72-73*. Once the temp drops enough to justify lighting the wood furnace, that is what I consider the real start of the burning season for us...usually, or often mid October...but manage to make it to November last year...probably made a few extra fires in the fireplace stove though too...
I am feeling it. I finally got to cleaning out all the bark and such out of the indoor woodbin, and got about a 1/4 cord tossed in. I used to toss it in, then stack it. Used to be my son tossing and me stacking, then he wanted to stack, and he did a pretty darn good job. Now he is at football practice 5 days a week, and game on Friday, then work on Saturday. I am thinking to save a stacking step, I am just going to toss it in from now on. I know I won't fit as much, and I will have to top off every 2 weeks in the dead of winter, instead of 3 or 4 weeks, I will see how it goes. Already had a couple fires, and swept the chimney, cleaned out all of the stove, sanded and painted the inside stack, and polished the stovetop. Got 6 cords of 2 year old oak, black locust, black birch, ash, and maple ready to go. I am hearing it's going to be a rough one.
My first fire was last night. Overnight low was 35 degrees. Ill let it go today and there may be enough embers to start up again this evening but probably not. It's OK, I have plenty of kindling.
And just like that the burning season has started. Came home to 62 in the house and not ready to burn propane yet.
I hope to make it to Halloween. Rarely happens but hope is cheap. STill good with opening windows during the day and closing them at night - or at least most nights.
Getting close here. 48 degrees the other night. Leaves starting to turn. First fire can’t be far off.
We had our first killing frost last Thursday night and had the first fire the same night. A cold, wet weekend so a quick fire in the morning and one at night. More frost this last night and the night before. I was hoping to make it for a week or two yet but it was not to be.
We lit up last night for the first time this season, earliest light up we've had in quite a few years. We had frost this AM.
