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

An easy +13°F ambient outdoors . 68° in the far end of the house . 4 rooms away from the woodstove. Pretty much dark outside now .
White Spruce in the woodstove . I'm playing around with saw split (noodled) squares. Just small enough to fit through the woodstove door. See how well they last .
Pretty warm this week . All last week it was -17 to -22 F ambient. So this is almost T shirt weather .
Absolutely Loving the 10" thick dense packed , insulated walls.

 

12 right now but that's expected to drop a bit more before the day begins in earnest.

No snow.

 

21/72 elm

 

Good Morning! 25 here this morning. 65 inside. Got a good one going this morning. Maple chunks, oak cutoffs and a couple pieces of oak.

 

39 this morning is much warmer than yesterdays 24. 71 inside, burning oak.

 

We have had 17% more heating degree days so far season to date over last season. I have used significantly less wood. As best I can tell from my records maybe 30% less. Mostly elm from the same 2022 score, and lumber cutoffs like last year. The only thing I can think of is I eliminated a bad draft that caused one whole corner of the house to be cold. I knew it would help with consumption, but didn't expect this much.

 

Sitting at -2C/29F this morning, with a few inches of snow fall for insulation. Should make it above freezing today. Pine chonkies for breakfast.

 

Cool and damp here. 45 and a heavy mist coming down.

I forgot to load the boiler yesterday but it still had a good coal bed in there this morning. Loaded it back up with a mix of ash, walnut, and cherry. I need to move another pallet of wood up but we got too much rain yesterday and the tractor would destroy the yard in the process. I guess I'll just have to burn the stuff by the boiler until the ground firms up.

 

41/72 didn't reload this morning as the wife was sweeping and putting the tree up in the stove room. Just started back up around 5:30, maple and ash.

 

Newer phones have really great cameras. The main issue in FHC is the megapixel limit. Anything over 8 mp and it will more than likely need to be reduced quality. I usually have to take screenshots of my pictures on my pixel 8 pro.

 

24/74 Shagbark shorts

 

Bout 45f outside.
Feels good to be home after 3 days of out of state work.
Small am reload today before work

 

24 F here this morning. 64 in the house at 6am. Not much for coals left this morning so burning some pallets and a few small splits of oak and maple. We're sitting right at 71 in the house and letting the coals do their thing for a bit then loading up a full load for the slow burn. High of 44 today and cloudy. Lot's of chores to do today!

 

29/70 oak.

 

35.

Warm morning. Still no snow but rain today.

 

42/70 3 year dried oak

 

It has to be your sealing up the draft, I am not far from you and I have used significantly more wood so far then recent years.