32 deg and rising. Small shoulder load this morning, using ash and some beech. This load should take me to about 8pm tonight, then a reload for the overnight.
Yep, I pulled coals up, and put one medium Oak split on top about 8 a.m., and it's still almost 70 in here. I'm lovin' this. Gets a little toasty after the overnight load gets going and outside temps at the freezing mark.
It's about 23 tonight so we have some Cherry with a few spits of Yellow Birch loaded on the Liberty, 70 upstairs with the basement temp at 76.
Our first big snowstorm dropped 17 -20 inches on us, four days later it was 60 out so we lost all the snow, the last snow we had left 9 inches on the ground then we had 3 days of freezing rain/fog/drizzle so that knocked the depth down to around four inches. I think the next chance of any snow for us will be the Tuesday before Christmas.
Pretty good here in NH - in the last few days, a few minor snows - 2" or less - just push shoveled - not worth the atv. Still burning the 'fall' wood - mainly red maple with some white birch - but some surprise sugar maple and red oak in the mix to help the the night burns. Seems to be about low to mid 30's day with high teens to low 20's night here - that's easy burning to keep the house warm with my stove. January is coming and she'll have to earn her keep once again......Cheers!
Been hanging in the mid to low 30's here all day. Put a medium size load of silver maple and ash in the stove this morning around 7 and went Christmas shopping for my bride. Snow just barely covering the ground when I took off and then ran into a smidge of freezing drizzle, rear end got a little squirrly in the pickup on the way but then I hit a spot about 3/4 of the way to my destination and it was dry as a bone and not a speck of snow....good from there on in. Loaded a small load of silver maple and elm in at about 6:30 this evening with some ash, elm and red oak waiting patiently beside the stove. Warm up and drizzle till Tuesday here, did make it out Friday at about 3 and had a pickup load of ash and sugar maple cut and on the truck by 5.
32º this morning and Ash and Spruce burning in the boiler. Some of the snow melted yesterday, kids had fun playing outside building forts, sliding, pecking snowballs.
Well I limped through Friday night and Saturday morning with just one load of small elm rounds in the Daka closed down tight about 10pm Friday night with it being above 40°f here! It was still 73 in the living room Saturday morning so I figured since I would be either at Menards or outside splitting/fiddling with firewood so there was no need for a fire. Once I came in for the night it had settled to 69 upstairs and 64 in the basement so I thought I'd lite the Daka again with some of the lighter (punkier) elm. Just one load through her and the basement was back up to 78 but upstairs had only crept up to just over 70. No one was complaining and it didn't get below 45 outside so I just let everything burn down. Sunday came and I wasn't feeling 100% and I got the all-clear from SWMBO to just be lazy for the day so I fired up the Daka but I still couldn't get the living room above 70 even with it 78-80 downstairs and the furnace fan running. I called the Answer into action with some of last year's oak and ash uglies just after noon and promptly drove the living room over the 80° mark...whoops! It sure felt good just laying around nursing a cold and watching football though. Pretty warm weather overall so not a whole lot of wood was sacrificed in the making of this heat!
42*F, burning fuel oil. After last year's ridiculous spike in price in the Northeast I was awful jealous of you wood burners. I'm happy to see oil prices lower this winter. Dang fuel oil spike bled over into the auto diesel market and had it up around $4.55/ gal. last year. Hanging around $3.40-3.50 so far this year... (Apologies if this off topic)
OT is 45, supposed to get down in lower 30s tonight with a high of 37 tomorrow. Stove is loaded with ash stubbies and waiting for a match.
Stove hasn't had anything put in it since Sunday afternoon about 3. Temps were hanging around 50 today outside, ran the NG boiler a little last night as overnight was mid 40's. I'll be lighting the stove soon though as the weather shows the temps dropping fast after 6 p.m. Highs in the mid 30 most of this week, lows in the lower 20's
We're still burning some Cherry, it's around 32 at the moment with the temps climbing during the night.