Firewood

2010 10 29 Friday Last week, with our pickup temporarily on Crane and after cutting a number of fallen trees into 16″ sections, I brought home four loads of cut up trees and moved them to the front yard, outside Yvonne’s deer fence, ready for splitting. I already had two stacks I’d split during the … Read more The Pleasures of a Splitting Maul

Wednesday 2010 10 20 Cloudy, misty, water tank at 10 feet. More than a year ago a winter wind pushed over a 60′ double trunked Douglas fir, the shorter, dead trunk jamming itself into a big, ill-formed alder, with the longer, living, trunk and crown nearly hitting the roof of well house #2, but distracted … Read more Perfect Windfall

Tuesday 2010 10 19 For more than a year I had my eye on a pile of tree trunks near well house #1 on Crane Island common area. With our F-150 pickup temporarily on the island, it made sense to consider cutting them into 16″ sections and bringing them back to the house, about ¼ … Read more Scavenging Firewood