Firewood

Firewood season is now over for the year, as spring is on it's way.

We've been splitting wood all winter long.  It's been a long, cold, hard winter.

All leftover firewood will quickly be sold this upcoming autumn or kept for us next winter.

We went through a lot of wood this past winter.

Trees

Firewood stacked and drying

Deer and human footprints in the dried mud in the firewood area.  Were the deer helping out? 

Splitting area

Logs being split.  Do you see the axe?

Does the work ever end?

Till next autumn...

The Road Less Traveled

One of my favorite poems is The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost. I can't say these pictures are of a road not taken, because it's the only real road to our house, but it's a road less traveled than the paved streets.  And I love our place down the road less traveled.

With all the rain we've been getting here in Maryland, our road is muddy in places.

Field beside the road

 

There's always wood to be split.  This pile is from a past tree that fell across the road; we just haven't taken the time to split it & put it in the stacked wood area, so it sits beside the road for now.  The leaves are falling - Autumn is pretty in the woods.

Wild Mountain Holly beside our road.

The Old Oak Tree

We went out driving today & passed this HUGE old oak tree cut up in someone's lawn.  I thought it was awesome because it was so large ~ I wondered how old it was.

Fallen tree in the road

Today Randy & I were considering going out to the movies - we wanted to do something that didn't involve any work whatsoever. We wanted a day off from work. Before we went out, Jack (the cat) begged for a walk in the woods. Jack so loves his walks. So Randy & Jack & I went out on a walk in the woods. Jack was sharpening his nails on a tree when we heard a loud crashing, ripping sound. Jack scampered up the tree & had to be retrieved & put back in the house. Randy & I went to investigate ~ an old pine tree fell across our dirt road.

Just the top of the tree was across the road.

It knocked other smaller trees out of it's way when it fell.

There is never a day without work on the farm. I gave Randy this chainsaw a few years ago for his birthday. People thought I was strange for giving him a chainsaw for his birthday, but I knew he'd appreciate it. He's used it alot since then.

Logs after the cleanup was complete. There is always logs to be split around here.

Road is now all clear.

Firewood update

The guys continue splitting & piling firewood. Each full row is a complete cord of a different type of wood. Some of it has been sold, and it is being organized into these rows prior to being delivered or picked up. And some firewood was already picked up before I took these pictures!

Here are some logs awaiting splitting:

The guys after a day of splitting & stacking.... Somehow they managed to not knock over the woodpiles by climbing on them...

Splitting Firewood

The guys have been busy splitting firewood. They've been cleaning up the property, cutting up & moving fallen trees, and a friend dropped off some unwanted timber...before they knew it they had some huge log piles.

The piles before splitting:

After splitting & stacking ~ there's 4 different piles of split firewood in this pic (different types of wood):

These are not the final firewood pictures, more will be posted when they're closer to being done! Since I took these pics 2 days ago, they have split more firewood and made more complete rows.

27 Ton hydraulic log splitter ~ the Lifesaver!