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

I'm trying to remember the last time it was above 0 F. Here at the house. I think it was around Thanksgiving.

 

It got up to 28f today. Like a heat wave. We only needed coats to work outside today. The stove even burned out once for several hours.

Have a 85% chance of snow now that we are above zero tonight. For the last 2 hours the snow hasn't hit the ground. Radar shows snow. None to be seen.

 

Know what you are saying. Lived up on the Alaska Highway Mile 300 (Fort Nelson) for eight years. After a 6 week cold spell, it warmed up to minus 20-25 degrees. Went outside and split a load of Birch. Frozen wood sure splits easily!

 

5f/66f after some light snow overnight. Got a nice load of black ash and birch on the coals waiting for it to take off. Lake travel was good yesterday morning and the fish were pretty active at times between 8 and 11 am. I am off work again today to will be heading back out around 7:30am.

 

17/72 Burning down coals with pine

 

I'm just a product of my environment. -25 = .

 

10f/75f. Working on burning down coals in the BK Princess.

 

16 and slowly rising to the high 20s later. Right now I’ve got a load of white oak and hickory burning, while the coffee is brewing. There’s a nice pile of black locust splits warming up in the inside rack for later.

 

14/ 70
Woke up a little later than usual and just a few coals from last night. house was a wee bit chilly. No worries. BL to the rescue. Looks like a warm up starting wed.

 

I have 18/74. Steady diet of chestnut oak continues. Temps predicted up to 28 today. Standing water from the rains turned into an ice rink in my yard.

 

I was blessed with a blanket of 30" dense drifted snow over the weekend.

I had to plow the driveway 2 hours just to open a path to get out! It was too heavy (not wet) and deep to plow straight or angled so I had to move the snow to the side of the road every 4' or so. Sure could have used a tractor with cab and front snowblower!

12 now. Headed out siin to finish plowing and begin shoveling roofs. (I'm gonna move..!)

 

My mind goes back to when I was growing up, specifically to when I read “To Build a Fire” by Jack London. It’s a very fine line between life and death in that realm.

 

16 outside and it's 75 inside. Supposed to get to 30 today and then mid 50's for the rest of the week.

 

I reloaded on Christmas with apple and ash. The apple smelled pretty good. I was trying to find some cherry or beech instead of the ash, but it was buried and I wasn't going to bother.

 

Yes, definitely. At Christmas I was talking to some people that are not outdoors type people, and even they made the same remark.

 

Do you find a lot of beech over there? I don't know if I could identify it or not even if I thought I had some.

 

We are. There is a guy that restores them here also. He does a bunch of stoves. Right now he told me to look out for old coal burners as that is his interest. I use to rent a electric hydraulic lift for stove installs from him. I wish he wasn't an introvert. I post some pictures of his shop and out building.