Monday, October 22, 2012

It has been a fall for firewood

Our son, Matt, came to camp in September to help us find and cut firewood. This is a big chore as we need to search around the lake for dead trees, cut them down, buck them up into four-foot lengths, haul them by boat to camp, carry them up the hill and then cut them into stove-length pieces, split the blocks, and deliver them to the cabins.
He, and our brother-in-law, Ron Wink who did most of the splitting and delivering, had just finished gathering enough wood for this fall and next spring when the winter storm hit. It broke hundreds of green trees right here in our yard. Ever since we have been cutting up these trees which will be used for firewood next fall and coming years.
Meanwhile, the weather all fall has been very cold and wet and we have used up a lot of the wood we hoped to have on hand next year.

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