Sept 10th - More Cleaning, Splitting & Burning

Yesterday I spent most of the day cleaning out one of the outbuildings so that I could stack firewood in it. I had been just dumping the wood in a pile but that was taking up to much room, with all the junk in the building. The building is 16' wide by 25' long (I think, can't remember for sure). The eave height is at least 8'. Below is the left side. The wood shown in the photo is what I had split last week and just dumped in the building.

 And the right side. Note the two rolls near the bottom right of the photo. One is brown and the other is gray. They are 4' wide rolls of sandpaper. The brown roll weighs over 50#. Later in the day I found two more rolls in another area.

After cleaning out the building and stacking the wood I mowed the lawn for the 3rd time since early June.
The first thing this morning, around 9 AM, I started burning junk wood.

 After starting the fire I fired up the splitter. Later I moved this wood into the building and stacked it. One of the chunks of wood was large enough that even after splitting in into 4 sections, using a splitting axe and wedges, I still had to split one of the 4 pieces in half so that I could lift it onto the splitter.

 About 2 PM I added another bunch of junk wood to the fire. It was still burning nicely when I came in for a shower around 4:30.

Today wasn't as nice as yesterday. Today's high was 88 degrees. Tomorrow the high is forecast to be 89.

Hopefully I will get some more splitting and burning done tomorrow. Thursday we head for Indy. We have Doctor's appointments (routine) scheduled for Thursday afternoon an Friday morning. Then it will be back to Missouri. I'm not sure when I will make it to TN to pick up the tractor I bought there.

Our wood furnace is made by Hardy Mfg. I contacted them to find a local salesman/installer. I called the guy yesterday and he is coming out next week to look over our installation. Before we purchased the house I paid extra for a "furnace inspection" to make sure the wood furnace and propane furnace were both operational. The guy said it was a simple operation to switch back and forth and that both were OK. After arriving here and finding a section of the propane furnace flu laying on top of the furnace I'm not real confident that the furnace inspector gave me my moneys worth. I want some good information on the possiblity of the water in the wood furnace freezing if it is not used for a period of time during the winter. I also want to know what modifications are required so that the propane furnace will act as an automatic back up to the wood furnace.

Lydia was here again this afternoon. Either she isn't feeling well, or she is being kind of bratty. I hope she is being brattym that would be better than her being sick. She was here yesterday also and acted about the same. Bratty or not, she is still a little cutie.

Good night to all. May God bless you and yours.