A warm and balmy 22° this a.m. Red Maple, red oak and cherry keeping the inside first floor at 72° (+/- 2°), basement at 78° (+/- 5°) and 2nd...
Woke up to first frost of the season which is very late for northern Mass. Well, the neighbors had frost. Across the road is 25' lower in...
48°F, wind off the ocean only 70 miles away. Lots of wind coming later today and tomorrow and cold rain with it. Staying warm with White Birch and...
46°F outdoors and falling, 72°F indoors and rising. Forecasted low expected in the high 30s in North Central Massachusetts. Birch, Maple, and...
In my younger days, stacking wood was a necessary evil which used up valuable time that I didn't want to feel that I was wasting. Over time, some...
Beekeeping and firefighting, the only reasons for wearing a coat in summer. I timed out at 65 in June for the need to wear an insulated coat, now...
I started up the Resolute about 1:30 this a.m. not because the temp dipped but to casually heat the honey frames to extract. I didn't need a...
I only split wood using a maul or wedges with a sledge until last year. Both elbows and my right shoulder fired up during that winter season and...
I like to bring in firewood by plastic toteful until steady burning is required, and after a freeze or two kills most of the hangers ons. Our...
A fair question asked, but so many more answers than just two. I started for (#1) the comfort of a warm home for my family and (#2) knowing my...
Strips of birch bark to kindle pine sticks to kindle strips of hardwood - and we're off! Not much invested except time to collect birch bark in...
You might need a water softener - the water looks kind of hard! Sent from my SM-A102U using Tapatalk
An elder friend of mine relayed to me he had found some green beans that he and his wife had canned 25 years earlier. He said they were still...
All of the oddball wood - chips and chunks off the firewood as it's cut up and even parts of tree stumps get tossed into a small pallet shed. I...
If there's mushrooms, mold or anything that I can't identify it gets put in a special pile. Anything in that pile comes in to go directly into the...
Happy Birthday Midwinter! Go for the splitter, but keep the hand tools ready. I held off til 63, but there comes a time when power equipment is...
Merry Christmas to all my fellow wood burners! Keep those fires hot, and out of the flues. But if you need my Brothers and Sisters, don't be shy...
White gold! Sent from my SM-A102U using Tapatalk
Most of the time (but not all of the time) when I've buried a handful of wedges just like in the picture, I'll turn the wood onto its side and...
In a town that many residents used to heat their homes heavily with wood, it helped to have a policy. That changes from time to time. During the...