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

0° feels like -10°

I scooped out ashes today when it was "warm" out at 3° above.

Box elder on coals, of, box elder I think.

73° inside.

 

I did ashes too during the heatwave this afternoon

 

About 22:00 i went out and topped off the heater. and as predicted the steady snow began dropping. Back in front of th3 fireplace fire, watching a what-if video on the subject of 50 US Army Rangers were garrisoned at th3 Alamo when Santa Ana arrived. Spoiler- The outcome would be different

 

12/71 burning down cherry coals going to load it full of cherry and ash.

 

12 here too. 73 in. About to load up with black locust.

 

It,s fifteen below zero at the moment. Burning 0ak .

 

It got down to -9 earlier this morning'
-4/74 hard Maple and ironwood

 

2/64 oak right now and oak and maple on deck. Supposed to start snowing here at 0900 and over the next two days, 16-24+ inches of snow. My sister in Illinois asked me if I was going to go cleanup in stages? I told her, between games and halftime... maybe

 

10 feels like -1, looks like 3 inches of snow so far. Stove barely had coals this morning. Just loaded up with BL and mulberry. Trying to decide if I should stay up or go back to bed...

 

16* feels like 5*, snow coming down and not the nice fluffy snow Ice is expected later (actually this might make for some good sledding lol). I grabbed an extra propane container in case I need to fire up the generator at some point.
The Fireview struggles to keep up a bit in these temps but it's cruising with some cherry, maple and oak.

 

3/68, headed to 13! More oak burning. Would be nice to slip out and do some splitting today but might still be too cold. Trying to get a mountain of cottonwood split and stacked to use fall of 26 if it’s dry enough.

 

13/70 have ash catching, about 5 or so inches of new snow with maybe 12 or more coming. Might fire up the Husquvarna blower soon.

 

5 degrees outside, 71 inside. Red oak and tulip poplar in the Lopi. It started snowing about 30 minutes ago. I brought in another half dozen wheelbarrow loads of wood just to do something outside for a few. It’s nice and quiet outdoors right now.

 

-2/66. Boiler kicking on to avoid freezing the radiators. Kid's school is already canceled. Hopefully we get as much snow as they are forecasting. Nothing like a powder day ⛷️. As I get older I think I like winter more and more!

 

7/67. Too cold for me. The dog loves it. Red oak and hickory. Forecast -12 tonight.



My name is Mike, and I'm a hoarder in Ok.
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-35/74 load of Maple in the Fireview. Started out burning at #1 but had to bump it up a bit to make sure the coals are down enough for the next load. I find in these below zero temps I need to burn smaller loads hotter about every 3-4 hours to keep up. In the evening I’ll do a longer burn but also turn on the furnace to help out some.

 

-36

Feels like -52


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I wonder what isaaccarlson is at this morning

 

Same here. loading more often to keep the heat up and the coals down.