Aaron, the firewood man, delivered two cords of fir for the homestead stoves today. More Pixs.
Fir Firewood Delivered to the Homestead
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Plowing the driveway
The cold spell continues. A couple nights ago we got 3 more inches of snow. Since then, it has ‘sprinkled’ snow off and on.
I had just put the last can of gas into the generator, when our next door neighbor, Dave, sledded some gas over to me, using a plastic garbage can lid as a sled. Then he put 3 empty cans back into his ‘sled’ to fill the next time he goes out.
I have plenty of firewood as a friend and another neighbor, Shannon, came over a couple days ago and helped with splitting and wheel-barrowing enough wood onto the porch to last until Carl returns from Guatemala next week.
This morning, Denny, a neighbor from further on down Mosquito Lake Road, brought his machine (excavator?) over and scraped the mile of dirt road in from Mosquito Lake Rd, as well as our driveway. I’m hoping to get out tomorrow, as I hear the MLR is good enough, even for me, and the Mt Baker Highway is clear.
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360º of Snow
Carl is standing on the dike path, along side the pond, for this panorama.
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Gathering Fire Wood
WWe mix the split pieces of fir, spruce, alder and maple (most from blowdowns around the homestead) with pieces of pallet wood, from a place that recycles old pallets and sells the pieces that they can’t use to make new pallets from. I just called them to reorder another load and will have to wait a few weeks till they have another load. But then, they couldn’t drive in on our road now anyway…
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Snow, December 08
The first snow of the winter had the nerve to fall while I was in California, at my Aunt Unie’s 100th birthday party.
Fortunately, I only missed the first few inches. And since I returned, the snow has continued, most seriously. As of December 26, we had received about 32 inches of dry powder snow.
After the largest snowfall of December 17, Carl and I, Poco & Cuca, took a walk on the perimeter trails around the homestead. The temperature was in the teens.
For a picture story of our walk around the homestead, visit our Picasa slideshow
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