It’s 4 degrees below but clear as a bell. Dad has a helper here and they are sawing down a tree by the pond for wood. We have plenty of limbs but snow too deep to get to them. – Ina
I have to wonder about that tree. Was it dead, or did they cut down a live tree? The green wood surely wouldn’t burn very well.
And Ina refers to limbs. Did they just gather limbs to use
for wood? At any rate, apparently they were caught short in a cold snap without
enough wood.
Besides the wood cook stove in the kitchen, I believe they had a wood stove in the dining room, too, and a fireplace in the living room. The larger upstairs bedroom also had a wood stove, and Ina mentions lighting it in the evening to take the chill off the room.
Here in 2024, Mike and Ken cut down Scotch pines in Ken’s
back yard, and Mike came home with the wood. It is all cut, split, and stacked
for next year. We rely on our little wood stove for heat more than on our
furnace. KW
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