It’s a late posting. I originally thought that I would be doing a “Saturday Caturday on Sunday” because I was so tired out today ~ I slept most of the day ~ which is why I’m wide awake now at 8 p.m.
Yesterday evening, I got a delivery of wood. I ordered one cord but the guy delivered two cord ~ I thought that the quoted price was high for a single cord but I hadn’t bought wood in two years & everything has gone up in price so radically I just thought, well, that’s the way it is. But he must have misunderstood me on the phone & just went with my old order ~ I bought two cord the last two times I got wood.
I didn’t buy wood last year because I didn’t have very many fires. It was a warm winter & with my new windows, I didn’t need the extra warmth.
This winter is a true winter ~ it’s cold, snowy & windy.
I thought that maybe I could get by with the wood I had but this week, I was down to this ~
which isn’t much wood.
My fireplace really throws the heat & I usually burn no more than four or five pieces of wood at a time, because it gets too hot & I have to open a window ~ really! So what I do is let the fire burn down & let it go out. I don’t keep adding wood. This way my wood lasts a long time.
My wood was dumped into my driveway at 8 in the evening & I wasn’t going to stack it at that hour. I am usually in bed at 8 p.m. I went to bed right after the guy left. BTW, I got my wood from Mathis Farm Products ~ if you’re in the Buffalo area & you want a good deal on firewood. Craig Mathis delivers the wood himself & he’s a really nice guy.
This morning, it was warmer than it had been in days ~ 40 degrees & raining ~ arthritis weather ~ & I was aching all over. The last thing I wanted to do was to deal with that pile of wood but I didn’t want to leave it in my driveway in the rain, especially since I knew it was going to get cold again ~ I didn’t want the wood to freeze together. So I made a pot of coffee, rolled a fatty & got out there & started working.
This is what I started with ~
This is the end result ~
& this stack by my back door ~
It rained steadily while I worked. I took a couple of breaks, to get fresh cups of coffee & to stand in my garage & smoke my doobie & to get out of the rain ~ which turned to a rain/snow mix by the time I was done.
Radar, of course, wanted to come outside but I didn’t need his help & I didn’t think he’d like the cold wet weather.
When I came in, I took a HOT bath with Dr. Teal’s Eucalyptus & Spearmint Epsom Salts & had Progresso Chickarina soup & then I went to bed. Usually the cats sleep with me but they were in the living room.
I woke up a little while ago & had a fried egg sandwich & made a fire.
The cats are on the couch ~ they love the warmth of the fire. When it burns down & I go back to bed, they’ll stay on the couch ~ it’ll be a few hours before either of them join me.
I ache all over & as soon as the fire burns down, I’m going to take another hot bath & then go to bed with the heating pad.
It’s going to get really cold this week & I’m glad I got the wood. I’ll probably have a fire every day. I know the cats will like that!
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