On New Year's Eve morning, our gardening — tree- and hedge-trimming, in our case — contractor sent over one of his guys to finish cutting our 2014 wood to size for our stove. Walt helped. I mostly watched from the kitchen window as I got New Year's Eve food ready for the table. Our chainsaw gave up the ghost a couple of months ago, and we are trying to decide whether to replace it or just have somebody else do the wood-cutting for us from now on.
When it was all cut, the wood was in a pile in front of our garage door, effectively making it impossible to get the car out. We had to move it all and stack it under our carport-cum-woodshed so that we could get to town in an emergency and so that predicted rains wouldn't soak it yesterday and today. I helped with the moving and stacking on Thursday morning, though Walt again did most of the work. It got done.
Meanwhile, from the kitchen window I watched the sun trying to break through the clouds and fog over the neighbors' yard. I don't remember if it turned sunny that day, but the truth is that January 1st of 2015 was a beautiful day here. We had a nice crisp morning for stacking wood before the rains returned.
Yesterday it rained for much of the day, and it's supposed to rain all day long today too. We'll be going down into the village center this morning for the mayor's annual "state of the village" ceremony for the new year. I'm hoping to learn more about our local Internet service, which has improved a lot over the last few months and which they promise they will make even better and faster in 2015. Day three of the new year is about to dawn...
Get the guy in!
ReplyDeleteIf you do decide to buy a new log burner that will take 50cm wood...
you'll probably be buying your timber in in those lengths...
so no need for a chainsaw and associated costs...
And this weather is awful... it's giving me the "glums"!!
We do plan to get a new wood-burning stove in 2015. It'll be one that takes 50 cm logs, so as you say we might be able to buy them already cut to that length. We actually have three chainsaws -- a gasoline-powered one that is acting up and is old; a small electric one that's not really up to the task of cutting dry oak logs; and a small gasoline-powered one that's an élagueuse for small jobs. We were surprised to seen the gardener's guy cutting the logs with such a small saw. And yes, the weather is dismal.
Deletewow stacking wood is a hard work...
ReplyDeleteIt is that!
DeleteSensible thing to do to have somebody else do the hard work. Tim's suggestion will solve both problems at the same time!
ReplyDeleteWe've both realized we are getting too old to do such hard work. On ne peut pas être et avoir été, comme dirait l'autre MDR.
DeleteYou're so right!
Delete"You can't be who you are today and still be who you were yesterday."
DeleteYou nailed it!
Delete"You can't be who you are today and still be who you were yesterday."On ne peut pas être et avoir été, comme dirait l'autre MDR. That bears repeating .Parts of those yesterdays are appealing, but we continue to evolve as time marches on.
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