Happy Thanksgiving!

We would like to wish everyone a very happy and safe Thanksgiving!

Our Thanksgiving Day weather has been more wintry than fall-like with temps in the low 20s and wind blowing most of the day with gusts upwards of 25mph.  We had 1.5" of snow late yesterday/overnight.

Here is a photo of some wood we recently cut down from two 25' logs.  Our neighbor brought it down from the hill with his excavator so we could cut it to length on an even surface.  The orange glow in the upper left quadrant is a reflection from the wood stove (yes, it is a toasty 75 degrees in here at the moment!)

These logs won't be used for 2 years so there is plenty of time for them to cure (i.e., dry).

We've been busy!

Lots of wood work in the last few weeks:  cutting, splitting, moving.  Fires have kept us warm, especially on mornings where lows have been in the teens.

18 outside, 75 inside

We had a cold morning, but only outside.  Temps were in the high teens while brush cutting, but the fire kept the inside really toasty.  You can see a piece of red oak burning in the stove earlier today:

Birches don't mind the cold.  Some were looking lovely this a.m.