No, I meant that I didn't sweep the floor as I piled wood into the wood room. I cleaned it up as it was exposed throughout the burning season. I didn't have trouble with the high temp alarm last season. At least, I never heard it. The few times it did go off, 99 lbs told me "Can't you hear that sound from the furnace?" I usually don't wear my hearing aids around the house....
You are kind! The wood that I get to make my firewood out of is what’s left after the logger cuts the marketable logs out. Making perfectly awesome splits would leave a lot of waste. Other than you folks there are 6 people that might see the wood in the basement and they don’t care what it looks like because they know they will be warm this winter!
My deck rack is getting filled. Some ugly ash "rescued" from a friend's place 6/23. Should be fine shoulder wood. I'll top it off tomorrow. Why keep the fun to one day? We'll still be burning assorted chunklies for a while yet, as we have morning fires. Just need to keep kindling available. No shorof that either: fallen branches, pine cones, sheets of dry bark.