I'll get back to Domfront tomorrow. For today, I'm posting about firewood. We had 5 cubic meters (nearly a cord and a half) of the stuff delivered Friday morning. In this first picture, on the right, we had already stacked about half of it, so the disorganized pile on the right is about half of the delivery.
My small contribution is the little pile under a garage window on the east side of the house. We stack the wood under the front terrace, where it stays dry for the winter. Today I hope to get the small pile about twice as big as it is right now — up to the window ledge.
Walt has been working on a much larger woodpile, as you can see on the right. He builds wood towers that hold the woodpile up on either end. If we don't finish today, we'll be able to cover what remains of the disorganized pile with a tarp and wait for the rain predicted for tomorrow to be over with before we stack the last little bit of wood.
And where does all this wood go to be burned? It goes into this little wood stove that we had installed in our living room fireplace back in 2006. It's a nice supplement to the heat we get from our oil-fired boiler and our cast iron radiators, and wood is almost free (not quite, of course) compared to the cost of fuel oil.
I remember when Walt used to cut the large logs into pieces- that was really a chore! Lewis and I have rented log splitters to cut trees that have fallen in our yard. It is satisfying to see the finished work all neatly piled up.
ReplyDeleteMy uncle had one of those cast iron wood stoves in their house outside Philly. Boy could that thing put out heat! And not as dry as electric heat.
ReplyDeleteGreat work!
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