Up and down

Up and down

All kinds of weather!

Our winter has been so weird one minute it is so cold, it like living in a deep freeze. Then we warm up.

Then it snows and then it rains

All I know though all of this we have burned a whole bunch of wood.

Wood is our main source of heat so if we don’t feed the fire we freeze. This keeps us pretty tied to home all winter long someone must be here pretty much 24 -7. Our days seriously consist of feeding the woodstove, to filling the wood box and admiring how nice it looks only to keep burning it and doing all over again. Every weekend is used up by splitting firewood or hauling more home.

There is nothing better than the smell of fresh cut wood the deep pitch smell or the fragrance of a freshly tossed log on the fire.

Our wood stove only gives us tops two and half hours and that is if we are lucky. On cold nights we set the alarm every two hours to make sure we don’t get too cozy under all those blankets.

The whole farm is hooked up on one system underground so if we freeze … the whole farm can too.

This makes for a long winter since the beginning of November I have carry water from the middle of the property to all places it is needed this is to ensure no pipes are freezing from half use.

A steady mild winter would be nice, nothing more than -10 would be ideal.