6 degrees this morning when we woke up., started the fireplace in the family room around noon time, shut down the hydronic zone and the fire place feeels great with some white birch cranking away. Wife has a pot of sauce brewing. Good day to be home from work.
9*.....67*......got red n rock oak a blazin.....winds suppose to let up here tonite.....low of 5* ....rain wednesday n thursday...highs 40....go figure!
It's been a few days since we've had a good rain. We're getting close to drought conditions here in central PA
Currently 1* predicted low -4* Inside temp setting at 69* and stove still on a mainly honey locus diet. Nor burning that hard.
18° going down to 8 tonight here on southern md. But Inside a balmy 73 , so says my happy wife.. life is good w a hot oak fire going and dogs peacefully snoozing. It was 45 yesterday morn.
minus 7*F this AM my smorgasbord of hardwood from last evening kept the house at 70* until about 10am (16hr burn time). I put on a small load of Ash and Maple to get through till this evening. I went back out at 5pm and reloaded the OWB tonight I put on a load of Red and White Oak that I sorted out of the stack. It is going to be another below zero night. It never got above 4*F today
-17F here this morning, made it up to 16. Very little wind & sunny. Was a nice day, wish I could've worked outdoors this afternoon, but no such luck. +2 here now, loaded the boiler with Oak & Ash. It kept up good last night, but water temp was down this morning. Shoulda loaded it a little heavier I guess. Was 69 in the office & shop instead of 72. Not bad, but toasting off a bit of wood. I think I'm under 20 cords on hand now.
How oak slabs burn . Turn up the volume. 16f outside and 80f in living room Sent from my LGL84VL using Tapatalk
Me too.. my family would think I was nuts. When it was 5 ° n snowing I'd be out in the woods w my knife n rifle camping in a deadfall lean two I would build, cooking squirl stew on an open fire.. just what I love to do to this day. Wife n I go camping w friends as much as we can.
6*...67*....toastin some ash....high somewhere in the 30s today. Cant believe the weather ding dongs arent being concerned with all the rain comin....consindering with all this snow thats already frozen...Any still snow covered driveways will definetly turn to a sheet of ice.
