Ramblings from White Mountain
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 27th, 2014
We woke up to a foot of snow fall over the previous 24 hours, on Wednesday morning, almost all of it overnight. Heavy wet snow, too, which weighed trees and branches down. This is why I want to have different roofing, besides metal. When these heavy sheets of snow fall from the upper roof they […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 18th, 2014
It’s really true what they say about firewood. It keeps you warm when you are cutting, stacking, splitting, or hauling it around, in any combination. Last week we got to experience everything except the cutting down trees part. And we were warm despite having low temperatures ranging from 3F to a balmy 10F this morning. […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 9th, 2014
What does four cords of firewood look like, besides a lot of work? The Larch is the best for mid winter, holding a fire overnight, and producing the most amount of heat. The fir is prettier to burn, very frisky and lots of snap, crackle, and pop. It sounds really cheerful. And produces almost the […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 8th, 2014
The end of September and all of October were sort of a blur. The house didn’t get painted and we’ll have to wait for favorable weather next year, May, June, July. Somewhere in there it should stop raining with warm enough nights that we can get that project finished. Now we’re waiting for snow to […]