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

T-storm and rain rolled through over 4 hours ago.

A mild 63 and the wind has died down to a breeze. Heavily overcast.

 

68 outdoors now with the sun coming up. We may get rain later today. Time to get ready for church.

 

That’s the most badazz garbage truck I’ve ever laid eyes on!

The trash service up here drives 4x4 Ram pickups with a compactor on the back. Much different than your bad boy.

 

26 degrees here at 9 am this morning.
The bird bath froze hard last night.

72 degrees in the house.

Burning off the last of my stacks of Douglass Fir bark today.

Supposed to get snow at the house on Tuesday!

 

Currently 36° F and snowing :-(
Fire killed white spruce in the stove.

 

That Doug fir bark burns HOT !!

 

It really does! Plus I just can’t bring myself to just throw it in the garbage.

 

Another mild day here. 70's and it cleared up from the overcast we had until noon.

 

Got up to the 80's today. Watched the Packer game and did some more cutting weeds behind the house and hauling them into the woods.
Hope to get the chimney cleaned tomorrow and then start on bring wood down to the house. It may be next weekend before I have my first fire, if then.

 

Made it to a very sticky 78F here. Way too warm for mid October.

 

Got up to 42 today . Not so good . But no sense me stressing about it. Down to 31 at the moment. Fkws in the stove closed down tight.
One thing about the warm conditions. I've got to rent a small excavator to do some digging here. I just might be able to get down thru the frost layer if these temps keep up.

 

72 here today. Looks like an unseasonably warm week ahead with temps in the mid 70's through Thursday. No fires here.

 

51 waiting out there for me this morning. Low 60's for the highs and looks to be dry.

 

Got to 62 high 44 low. Sun was out no fires yet

 

We woke up to -9c/15f this morning which is the coldest so far this season. Im glad I winterized the trailer yesterday after getting back from camping. We had a touch of snow fall last night but it didnt add up to much. I was curious about the MC of the standing dead doug fir I dropped over the weekend so burned some of it in the stove last night. It did reasonably well but not as good as the wood that I have seasoned. Once it warms a bit Ill stab it and see what it comes in at.

 

^^Pretty jealous of that!

 

This is starting to look a little better after we get past the rain.

 

Was 17° F for the low this morning. Which was nice. But had over 40 for the high. Which made for shirt sleeve chores when I got home early this afternoon.
I tried using one of those Stihl brand file things on the 271 I got the other day.
If I lived on the coast, Ide have pitched it in the bay.
It came with the saw.
Could Not figure out how to use it.
It is for .325 Stihl chain. The saw has .325 Stihl chain on it . The depth guage file part doesn't even touch the whole depth guage.
So I took one of the round files out of it and filed the chain . After Ide taken the depth guages down 6 strokes of a rider file. All bare handed with no file handle or nuthin. Saw cuts Great now.
Nice and smooth . And fast for what it is. Bucked up a couple weeks worth of fire killed white spruce poles to stove wood lengths.
Burned about 1/2 a tank thru it.
I like that saw.
It's just kind of a basic , semi old fashioned chain saw.
No nothin extra on it. Just a master control lever. A starter handle. Front and rear handles and a chain brake.
I confess, I still haven't figured out how to set the throttle advance on my 572..
Fortunately I know how to hold the trigger open and start it.

 

We got a light dusting of snow yesterday. 28 degrees this morning so the IS was fed some walnut last night. Reloaded it this morning at 6 and it's currently 28 outside, 81 downstairs where the stove is and 75 up stairs.... Maybe too warm right now....