Other than a bit of shifting and filling, the firewood shed is full for the coming winter. I’m feeling really great about this, particularly since we have so much extra wood harvested, in the round if not cut and stacked to dry. All of it, at this time, is dry enough to burn. The majority is bone dry!
The last felled tree is now fully accounted for, either in ready-to-burn form, or in rounds and double rounds stashed about the homestead.
Such a significant accomplishment seems to deserve a bit of analysis, for what it’s worth . . . :
The wood shed holds, according to Aly’s calculations, about 4.5 cords of wood. This is a bit more than one severe winter’s worth of wood (this contradicts an assertion I made last autumn—what the hell was I thinking?). Continue reading
