Past Peak
October 23rd, 2014 · No Comments · rural life
Can winter be far away?
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Making Kindling
October 16th, 2014 · No Comments · rural life
We have to light a new fire in our wood stove each morning during the heating season. That means lot of kindling. Fortunately, it only takes a few hours to split months worth of kindling with the hatchet. When we stack our firewood, we set aside good candidates for kindling. Then I sit down to […]
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Organizing Firewood
October 7th, 2014 · No Comments · rural life
We ordered two cords of firewood from our supplier in Vermont. Along with the wood left over from last year and the timber we felled and split on the property, we have something like four and a half cords on hand. That should be plenty to get us through the long, cold winter here in […]
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