It seems pretty strange to be stacking firewood when we've had temps in the middle 80's for a week but it's that time of year. We usually stack about 3 cords of wood for the wood heater so we never run out and a half cord for the wood cookstove.
In the garden, we've pulled most of the tomatoes, melons, canteloupes, etc. The potatoes are still in the ground (they store better there then in our house since we don't have a cold cellar). The main things we are waiting on are the late apples, grapes (which the bear got into last night leaving us a blue poop as a reminder), the last of the pole beans and the "perpetual beet chard" [I'll post something about this in a thread about this year's crops].
I've been working on next year's firewood. The tree I'm working on was 60+' high, 3'+ at the butt, tan oak with a ton of branches (good for the cookstove but a pain to buck up) and a bigger pain to split even with our hydraulic splitter. Plus, because of the branches, the butt started off over five feet off the ground. Bummer.
I'm pretty ready for winter and our usual rains...I'm pooped out. But I still have a new roof to put on our rental house but it's been too damn hot for a month or more. Oh, well.
Todd
In the garden, we've pulled most of the tomatoes, melons, canteloupes, etc. The potatoes are still in the ground (they store better there then in our house since we don't have a cold cellar). The main things we are waiting on are the late apples, grapes (which the bear got into last night leaving us a blue poop as a reminder), the last of the pole beans and the "perpetual beet chard" [I'll post something about this in a thread about this year's crops].
I've been working on next year's firewood. The tree I'm working on was 60+' high, 3'+ at the butt, tan oak with a ton of branches (good for the cookstove but a pain to buck up) and a bigger pain to split even with our hydraulic splitter. Plus, because of the branches, the butt started off over five feet off the ground. Bummer.
I'm pretty ready for winter and our usual rains...I'm pooped out. But I still have a new roof to put on our rental house but it's been too damn hot for a month or more. Oh, well.
Todd