It is a colder winter than we expected, we are burning through our firewood at a pretty good clip. Mostly, we heat the house with our two wood stoves, and if we keep both of them burning through much of the day, our small farmhouse stays warm. We love wood heat, it is even and comfortable. We are saving a lot of money on heating oil, but we have already gone through four cords of firewood, we will run out in a few weeks. (Tyler has a new stacking job).

I called Greg Burch, who has been cutting wood all of his life, he came by with the first of two loads. It isn’t seasoned wood, if the sun ever comes out, we want to leave it outside for awhile, I imagine we have about a month of firewood left. We’ll see. Next year, we’ll order seven or eight cords. I appreciate the cycle of life and chores on a small farm, it is the structure and foundation of life and seasons.