It is better to have your firewood in before the end of November. If you wait longer than that, you are likely to be working in the snow and in the dark. Fortunately for Rural Ways, this month has turned in to one long indian summer. It has been warm (50s and 60s) and sunny for a couple of weeks. Because I was away from The Homestead for much of the autumn, I needed this nice weather to catch up on some of the fall chores, including cutting and hauling three loads of firewood. Yesterday, I got the last of it. I dropped, bucked, and loaded two dead aspen trees near Robinson Reservoir. Usually, I wouldn't expect to be working in this area on 24 November, but, as you can see from the picture, it remains warm and dry.
That's the kind of work that keeps you so dang skinny.
ReplyDeleteYou're right, Jess, but sometimes I wonder if it isn't too much. Yesterday, when I was scrambling around in the woods, I slipped on some frozen ground and fell heavily on my shoulder and back. As I lay there looking up through the trees and wondering what that pinching feeling was in my neck, I thought, "You know, there are probably easier ways to heat your house."
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