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

42/67. Rain and dense fog. Warmer weather coming next couple days. Might let the fire burn out and clean everything up.

 

Made it below freezing last night!

21/67

The lake had melted over the last few days/nights and ended up with a nice water covered sheet on it. All night long, it has been rumbling while making ice once again. Almost as loud as thunder last night!

 

It's not even cold enough here to set beer outside to get cold.

 

Been so mild here, ain't burned in 3 days,
Absolute rain soaked hell hole though.
Trying to dry out tonight's wood, been lazy and not stacking it in the basement, but we've had enough rain the stuff in the basement got wet to

 

Might hit 60 today with rain. Warmer temps until midweek. Small fire of KCT to help with dampness.

 

It was 30* when I got up and lit the fire, it's 32* outside now with no precipitation of any kind yet. Soft Maple on the menu.

 

Warm, rainy and windy here. Had tornado threat yesterday. Tomorrow going to 60 during the day. Outside looks like dagobah from Star Wars it's so mucky. Black.

 

Yeah, it's definitely not great firewood, but it dries quickly and burns well. The amount of ash it leaves is ridiculous though. Then again it doesn't coal up really, so it's got that going for it which IMHO is a good thing as a lot of the wood I process makes a lot of coals.

 

Good thing it's the holiday season and there should be plenty of tasty snacks, right?

 

Those sounds of ice forming are always cool and interesting. How much ice, thickness is on the lake? I know there were some great ice making days recently.

 

Yes there is. Tried ( still trying anyway) to keep moving as I graze.

 

We got there.

 

It's a joke we got over an inch and half over the last 24 hours. I had a big stack of rounds fall over and everything's a mud pit.

 

Down to 35° here now. Norway maple and ash in the stove. 75° inside

 

45F at 8:30 pm on December 29. RIDICULOUS and dryyyy!
Hauled a bunch of wood in this evening, because supposedly it is gonna cool off this week and actually 70% chance of precipitation tomorrow. Not supposed to amount to much of anything though.
Hauled in a mixture of black locust, hackberry, elm.

 

Looks like winter to going to ring in the new year.

 

59/67 might have a small fire for a short time this morning, raining pretty good so a little damp.
Burning nothing at the moment but probably some scrap slabwood will make it to the hot box.

And yes, that is correct at 59, last week single digits, hard to believe.

 

55/72 no fire.
I'm going to check the stovepipe/thimble for soot. I usually do it somewhere around the holidays or shortly after.