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

It keeps up pretty well down into the low teens, below that or add in much wind and it's a battle against coaling and I have to get up overnight to reload. The Oslo would be a better size, but it's not worth making a switch for those couple coldest days of the year. Still, it puts out a remarkable amount of heat for a smaller stove.

 

I've heard of "Ice Box" cookies but never seen "Fire Box" cookies............

 

Looks like a good week for weather around here. Couple cold nights but no large amounts of snow. And no ice!

 

Doing the same thing with branch wood and yard fall that I had cut to length and "stacked" for the chiminea. Its mid thirties here so not so brutal but heating the house with stuff most people throw away.

 

The realfeel for Monday night is -31 and on Tuesday night -40, it looks like a couple of days of Beech & Ironwood.

 

I make my favorite cookies and I eat them all. I've even had them for breakfast when no one was looking.
Lucky if they last 4 days.

 

Good. I hope it kills some E.A.B., ticks, and any other nasties around that we don't want. Come on cold!
Hey. Next time your coming down to "The Burg" you stop and grab me a Sergi's pizza in Canton! Will ya?!
I haven't had one in a while. Can ya tell? Maybe next weekend I will take the wife and kids over there for dinner. I have not taken them out in a while.

 

Made it up to 40 here, cut about half a pickup load of cherry this afternoon, was going to drop another one but the wind kicked up and we are supposed to get some nasty freezing rain/sleet so I thought I better get back home and top off the rack out back and some in the house. Dug out some silver maple for this evenings fire.

 

33 here Burning shorts and odd ball ash, a little snow coming tonight

 

-5c here right now and the house is hot with the swamp maple burning.

 

We're sitting at 22 degrees tonight so instead of the Beech going in, I'll put a load of Yellow Birch in.

I'll save the Beech for Monday & Tuesday night.

 

Weatherman says freezing rain tonight until noon tomorrow. 34 degrees outside....73 inside

 

Gasifier...
Now I'm not getting alerts from this thread.

A few cold nights ahead of us, I brought in enough wood for three or four days...mostly sugar, one or two splits of ash, ironwood. Have some ironwood logs on one rack in the house, been there since last year, and the remaining 35+ year old sugar fills and overflows the other rack. Having trouble getting myself to burn any of that......

 

forecast Well, looks like we fire up the 2nd stove again tonight..........
Mon 12 Jan

7°F*
Tue
13 Jan

10°F
-22°F
Wed
14 Jan

14°F
-11°F
Thu
15 Jan

60%
18°F
3°F
Fri
16 Jan

30%
28°F
14°F
Sat
17 Jan

30%
21°F
-4°F
Sun
18 Jan

40%
28°F
21°F

 

Warm here now. Wish I could stay home and go out in the woods again. 29 out with Ash in the boiler. It is going to be a drop of at least 40º between now and the middle of the night tonight. Down to -10 they say.

 

It's a strange thing. Fire gods not happy about something? Grizzly Adam wanting more time off and more beer? I don't know.....

 

Well last nights low was 32 degrees and woke up to a house that was still 76 on less than a full load. Put 4 splits of pine in this morning which should hold the house for pretty much the rest of the day.

 

Holy chit Batman. Currently 14f here and now they are saying it is supposed to SLAM down to -26 tonight with a winchill of -34. That is not at all nice..............................