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

15 here now and will be down to single digits here by the AM.

 

Got 8" of snow yesterday , 14 °F now , Low: 11 °F going to load up with ash n oak for tonight

 

18ºF, headed down to 14ºF
stuffed with white oak

 

Alright fellas and fillies. Large half alder round in the stove. It turns into rain tomorrow morning after a drier cold spell. I forgot to mention this county had a stagnant air alert, stage 1 (basic) started last Friday. This just means no fires in fireplaces and uncertified wood stoves in certain areas of the county I am in. Yesterday they lifted it but no change to my burning at all.

Rain happening from Friday to Tuesday...higher 40’s to low 40’s, then back to this clear but cold weather at night. Winter Break starts for me tomorrow after work. Perhaps I will need to get on a wood splitting detail soon if this chilly weather sticks around. Well that’s all conjecture though except the splitting I can manage it.

 

20's tonight. Burning Hackberry and White Ash and it's nice and toasty.

 

Cold last few nights... Actually dipping into the locust stash... Had been burning up my box elder hoard until it got into the singles at night

 

Down to 10 right now, and I have switched over to my first Oak splits of the year. Instead of the Elm and Maple I've been burning so far, now that it is finally starting to cool off. We will make some more ice tonight.

 

8 deg. and another piece or two of Oak on the fire, staying up late to prepare for working night shift. There might be a delicious cold beverage or two involved.

 

From todays almanac for my town.

Temperature
High 22.8 °F 0 °F 27 °F (1989)
Low 9.7 °F -17 °F -70 °F (1964)

 

Wow -70, the coldest I've seen here is -20. Either way that is more wood, more wood. Keep her burning hot, and the faucets dribbling so the pump comes on every 15 or 20 minutes or so.

 

Depends on the house. My house has the well in the basement, its in the mechanical room. The casement is 6" metal schedule 40, the top is about 3 feet off the floor. No worries about dealing with a well in freezing temps. Momma keeps the house in the 74-76* range, no worries about pipes there.

 

We don't have a foundation under half of the bathroom, so the cold air is under that room, and two bedrooms as well. My cellar is old field stone , with not much 137 yr old mortar. So the cellar sits @ 33 / 34 deg. all winter. So we just do what we have to. Only had pipes freeze once, in the tee for the outside faucet, no big deal.

 

Coldest I have seen was -67* was awful. It gets -50* to -55* every winter for 4-8 weeks so I am use to it being nasty. I love to hunt in that temp everything has to keep moving to survive.

 

Sounds familiar for farm houses. When I lived in just north of Presque Isle, Me. I knew of places that are similar to yours. I would love an old German made stone farm house on a few hundred acres. Where the power ball when you need one.

 

Including you.

 

11°f according to my outside thermometer. Coldest day of the season so far. Burnin' oil till I get home to start the fire again, then it’ll be mulberry for the start.

 

5 degrees (f) right now, so I am burning coal and have been now for about 2 weeks. There is no relief in sight, so I will buy some more coal today. If it warms up, I'll switch back to wood.

(I burn wood above freezing and coal for anything under freezing).

 

16F and two large red maple chunks are burning on a pile of locust coals