Firewood

We've just about finished using up the firewood Lon had split and stacked before we left for India in 2013. Some of the wood we've been burning this winter has to be 7 or 8 years old. Much of it is in good shape, but a good bit is rather "punky" (that's an official term for rotten wood).

Our woodpile in January 2013. All our firewood comes from blown-down trees that Lon has cut up and split.

January 2017. About one load left to take up to the house.

We've been getting about one load of firewood every two weeks. This is today's load.

250 logs fills the racks on our deck.

Last spring we decided we needed a better way to stack our firewood, so we built a small woodshed. Lon has just about filled it up, so this spring we'll be building one or two more sheds. Each shed holds about 1 cord of wood, and we figure we'll burn about 1 1/2 cords each year.

Our new woodshed is almost filled with the wood Lon has split this year. We've got lots more trees to chop up, so we'll be building one or two more sheds this year.