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Kindling

November 11th, 2015 · No Comments · Blog, rural life

It’s good to know I can spend a few hours with a hatchet and make all the kindling we need for the winter. Our primary source of heat is wood and as it happens our wood stove is fairly small. That means the fire doesn’t survive the night. I have to build a new one […]

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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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