The thing about firewood

is that it warms you several times.

We had a couple of dead trees felled when we moved in here (standard Tennessee method - chainsaw to prepare the fell, and a length of line, a block, and a pickup truck to do the actual felling) and the feller chainsawed the trunks into firewood lengths.

On Monday we hired another chap to split the logs - he reckoned a couple of ricks (whatever that is) so about $80. In fact he spent much of the day at it, estimated the pile at 6-7 ricks ($240) and there's still as much again to split.

So this week I've been moving the split wood up from where the trees were to the lower porch and stacking it. I now have a pile about 8'x2'x2', and the original pile doesn't look any smaller.

Who needs a gym?

The thing about firewood

is that it warms you several times.

We had a couple of dead trees felled when we moved in here (standard Tennessee method - chainsaw to prepare the fell, and a length of line, a block, and a pickup truck to do the actual felling) and the feller chainsawed the trunks into firewood lengths.

On Monday we hired another chap to split the logs - he reckoned a couple of ricks (whatever that is) so about $80. In fact he spent much of the day at it, estimated the pile at 6-7 ricks ($240) and there's still as much again to split.

So this week I've been moving the split wood up from where the trees were to the lower porch and stacking it. I now have a pile about 8'x2'x2', and the original pile doesn't look any smaller.

Who needs a gym?