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What’s in a Cord?

September 29th, 2015 · No Comments · rural life

Can it be heating season already? Time to move the love seat and the jade plant off the front porch and make way for some firewood. We stage our firewood on the porch before bringing it into the house since otherwise it would be sitting in a stack out in the weather. These metal brackets […]

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Got Wood?

February 15th, 2015 · No Comments · rural life

When we found what would become our new farm one of the first things we noticed was that the primary form of heat was a wood stove. Oh, there was an oil furnace in the basement, but that was just for emergencies. It wasn’t ducted to the rest of the house. So while the basement […]

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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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