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Overnight 3/4 load of maple followed by a reload of about 5 more splits of maple at 8 am kept us warm today. Gross 50/foggy/rainy day out there. Fire probably wasn't necessary but it was very relaxing and comfortable. Perk of being far ahead wood wise is you can splurge on the 50/50 days. I won't start it again until the tomorrow morning likely. Maybe before bed we'll see.
It was a damp cool 55 and windy day out bush hogging right of ways. It's 45 out now with a low of 38 tonight with a small load of post oak and pignut in the 74.
Low in the 40’s tonight being very damp from yesterday and this mornings rains. Cherry and some pine this evening. 3/4 of a load. Nothing like a fire to warm you up and dry the air out on these nights.
This year is weird. The fall has been warm, so I’m holding off until my chimney sweep comes, and I’m gonna have him clean out my gutters at the same time. So I won’t light up the stove until all the damn silver maples around my house drop their leaves.
46 windy and some rain all day. Nightly loads of cherry, ash and boxelder.
The other night I did a load of strictly boxelder, honestly pine burns as long, it’s also very ashy and doesn’t coal, overall not very impressed.
Burning some oak. Low of 41 house was 63 when I got home. Its the only dry wood I have after a terrible summer. Good think I should have more than enough.
Another cool, windy, rainy day with 2 1/4" of rain the last 2 days. Its 46 now with a low of 40 tonight. I just lit up two post oak splits and a hickory and post oak round.
Cleaned the chimney at home last weekend while home and had some mixed bag fires of ash and silver maple. Listening to the Packer game in front of the new Strattford II fireplace in the cabin right now. Did a scab plug to the blower from a temporary outlet to run the blower and have a little hotter fire to continue the break in. Blown in insulation was finished today, just need the furnace hooked up and running to get the house warm for the sill plate foam to go in. Seems to be heating pretty effectively with a medium sized fire and upper 40's outside.
38F @6 AM here. It was damp, cold and windy last night. Chucked a couple of big Red Oak splits on a nice coal bed to get through the night. Heading for 60F today! Yeehaw. Not complaining.
We had 43.4 this morning, more pine went in the Liberty. We should be switching over to hardwoods this coming Thursday or Friday the latest. We'll still have just under two face cord of pine left for the spring.