-
Recent Posts
Top Posts & Pages
Archives
- April 2021
- March 2021
- February 2021
- January 2021
- December 2020
- November 2020
- October 2020
- September 2020
- August 2020
- July 2020
- June 2020
- May 2020
- April 2020
- March 2020
- February 2020
- January 2020
- December 2019
- November 2019
- October 2019
- September 2019
- August 2019
- July 2019
- June 2019
- May 2019
- April 2019
- March 2019
- February 2019
- January 2019
- December 2018
- November 2018
- October 2018
- September 2018
- August 2018
- July 2018
- June 2018
- May 2018
- April 2018
- March 2018
- February 2018
- January 2018
- December 2017
- November 2017
- October 2017
- September 2017
- August 2017
- July 2017
- June 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
Categories
- Country Gardening (402)
- Country Living (123)
- Field Notes (294)
- Inspirational Quotes (77)
- My Photos (910)
- Uncategorized (66)
Recent Comments
Posts I Like
Blogs I Follow
- France & Vincent
- A Moment in Time
- simonbowlerphotos
- Small Stuff
- Lagniappe
- Poetry for the People
- wondermyway
- T Ibara Photo
- junymond
- 18-200 mm View
- Song of the Heart
- Our Forest Garden
- Carinthia
- My Gardener Says...
- Life is a rusty rollercoaster
- The Glimpse of Life
- Musings by an ND Domer's Mom
- A Dalectable Life
- The Task at Hand
- Tippy Tales
Blogroll
Meta
It’s a good idea to stack it now, when it’s not too hot out! And it will have plenty of time to dry properly, too.
Yes, cool temps, no bugs yet… perfect time. 🙂
You mean it doesn’t arrive in nice tidy stacks?
Ha! don’t I wish. 🙂 I need Potter’s wand– “Wingardium leviOsa!”
Any idle teenagers around?
At one point, we did, but no longer, alas. 😉
shame… maybe tackle it in small doses?
Half hour increments! 😉
Good old Yankee preparedness. 🙂
Absolutely! 🙂
It’s such a secure feeling, isn’t it, to have all that warmth visible?
Yes, it is! Even better when it makes it all into the woodshed!
Will that much last you through the whole winter?
Yes, we go through about 4 cords/winter.
In northern New England, winter is never very far from our thoughts. Always a good feeling to have wood for the upcoming winter.
You have that right. We empty the woodshed, then fill it right up again. It is nice to know we are set with enough dry wood when we’ll need it in 6 months.
Lots of hard work. I’m hoping the car is out of the garage 🤭
Oh, yes! Cars well out of the way. 🙂
Very smart to plan ahead – now you can enjoy spring!
Yes, it is always one of our first chores of spring. Good to get it done, it’ll be nice and dry come fall. 🙂
One of the many things I do not have to worry about where I live!
True! Winter is never far from our minds here. Like the Aesop story of the ant and the grasshopper. 🙂
That’s an excellent analogy 🙂
Wow, it’s great when you can prepare for Winter so early! 💚
Best time to get it, no bugs yet, cooler temps and it gets to bake dry in the shed all summer. Ready for October fires. 🙂
Now that’s a stack of wood!
It sure is! four cords worth. 🙂
Someone can skip the gym.
Ha, truth! 😉
Here they say wood warms you three times: cutting the wood, stacking it and then burning it. You certainly have some stacking to do! 😉 If I lived round the corner I’d give you a hand! 😜
What a sweet thought! I’d love having you as a neighbor. 🙂
Hubby is now retired and makes this his project, trying to best his previous year’s time. Go for it, I say! 😉
Wow! We truly live in different universes, Eliza. We haven’t burned wood since we got rid of the fire-heated “snorkel spa” that came with the house.
Yes, winter is quite a bit different here!
The best time to do it. 🙂
Yes, indeed. And done in the nick of time, as I saw my first black flies today!
Forward planning is good! We’ve had fires twice this week, so we’d be using it already.
Hope that Arctic blast leaves you soon!
It is good to be ready. 😊
Yes, it is!
Get it all done, then enjoy the months it’s not needed 😏
Yes, indeed! 🙂
Ooh that does look like a lot of work! Will be nice to have it safely stowed and drying for the next winter, which you probably don’t really want to think too much about now!
Yes, it is a lot of work indeed, but we do love a wood fire in the cold months to warm our old bones. 🙂
We have fires nearly every day for half the year. October and April are small ones with only a few pieces to take the chill off. November to March need two big ones every day, but during cold snaps it needs constant feeding.
I must admit my spouse takes care of most of the hauling, bless him. 🙂
Wood fires are enormously comforting and not only because of the warmth!
Best to be prepared and well in advance too. We get ours dropped in mid-winter as our side yard tends to be very wet so frozen is a better choice. Do you get it green? I will be spending the next few months custom splitting ours as Mary Beth prefers smaller pieces for a hotter fire. We still have about a cord and a half from the heating season just passed (I hope) so won’t have to use the fresh stuff until later in winter.
Cut last summer, I’m told, so ‘seasoned’ I guess it is. A summer baking in our woodshed will finish the seasoning. 🙂
My goodness, that should last a while … or will it??
6 months, Oct. to April. Our winters are very cold and we burn 4 cords in that time. I love burning wood because you can get right up to the stove and bake the cold out of your bones! 🙂
Nice to idea.
Yes! 🙂
great idea …well prepare…
have a wonderful spring
Thank you, Tanza!
Oh gosh! You’re right – a magic wand would come in handy. It’s a nice, secure feeling to be well stocked up.
🙂 Yes, it would and yes it is! 😉
My first thought was that a tornado had hit. I guess I was primed by a PBS documentary we saw a few hours ago about Dr. Tetsuya Theodore Fujita, who invented the F-scale for tornadoes.
LOL! Yes, it can feel like that sometimes, but unfortunately, tornadoes don’t make such a neat job of it. 😉
Wow! I don’t know what to say Eliza, except that is a lot of wood.
Yes, it is… it takes about 4 days to get it all in the shed (with a few sore muscles 😉 ).
I want to see a pic of it stacked. Do you crisscross your rows or just stay in the same direction? I am betting your rows are very neat and tidy!
😀 https://elizawaters.com/2019/09/14/silent-sunday-134/
Interesting. You stack in one direction for a block section and then stack in the other direction for a section. Brilliant and visually pleasing. I should have known!
Partly to fill space efficiently, but changing directions minimizes the cascade should the pile destabilize. No one wants to be buried under a pile of wood!
No, nobody does, but I googled it and people have.
Say no more, ha!
Woah…I got tired looking at it, but warmed by the thought of a cozy fire. I just looked at your stacking link…very impressive, Eliza. 🙂
Thank you, Jane. It is a daunting pile when it first arrives, but given our cold winters, it is worth the effort. I do love a warm fire on a frigid day!