Wednesday evening in the snow
Actually sleet and drizzle now, and ground temp is high enough that nothing is gonna stick for long anyway. But we ‘have’ had snow today for the first time in several years. Started while Bill, Cat, and I were at the scene of the last pine to go down cutting and splitting and loading firewood. Got pine (boo hiss! but it does give btu’s. Just a lot of crap in the flue too), oak, wild cherry, and elm. Snow and sleet got to coming down to the point the wood was getting wet so we finished loading it and unloaded it under the portable garage out the back door. Already had one load I cut, split and loaded on the top of the hill this morning.
Arms are quite sore from splitting the two truck loads of wood. Am gonna cut this short and will try to catch things up tomorrow morning. Till then… 😎
Themocracy
Yes, ’twas lovely, wasn’t it? You should have seen the looks on the faces of the school kids at the elementary school. Pure joy. It may be different this morning, when they are back in school. 😎 It was coming down and sticking rather well in Jacksonville, when I left work between 4:30 and 5:00, there were some slick places on the road. Out near home, however, it had stopped snowing and was sleeting just a little bit. Last night, of course, the rain came down, and the snow is history. Friday night could be interesting, though, they are saying now, We’ll see…
Ah, wood, the fuel that warns you twice. Or sometimes three times: when you cut it, when you split it, and when you burn it. Yeah, pine is a b***h when you burn it, but it does put out heat.
Well, gotta do a few things to get ready for work. At the computer and eating sausage and cheese muffins right now-very good, I must say, even if I made them myself. Easy/quick to make too. Yumm!