The Hauling of the Wood

This past weekend we did a little wood splitting and hauling.

Son Ben and his charming wife Anna were over for beer and BB-Q last week and commented that they were out of firewood for their outdoor fireplace. well, guess what? We just happen to have plenty.

I split some of the larger pieces and loaded a couple of rows into Sue's truck to take over to their house.

And of course, we unloaded it.

With three people unloading, we were done in a flash without even breaking a sweat.


I can remember living in Northern Minnesota years ago and we heated with wood almost exclusively. The only time the furnace came on is when it was -20 outside. You talk about going through the wood. We had a very efficient stove, but even still we would go through about four cords of wood per season. Considering a full cord is 4'X4'X8', that is a mighty big woodpile. The wood was "free" but the trees had to be cut down, de-limbed, cut into sections, split, loaded. hauled home, unloaded, stacked outside, brought inside and eventually loaded into the stove. Now I know why we said that a single piece of wood would heat us 10 times!

Now we have a gas fireplace that is actually rated as a furnace, so we can enjoy the flames without the mess.

We keep the wood burning confined to the outside these days with a campfire pit that we really enjoy.

We really enjoy sitting out there at night with a fire listening to the coyotes howl.

Most of the leaves are off the trees now with just the oak leaves hanging on for dear life.


Won't be long now before we have the snow removing equipment all set for the season. That is hard to believe as it was 77 and sunny yesterday and 70 again today. Go figure!

Tune in again real soon for another edition of "Now What Are They Doing?"