Oct 9th - More Cleaning & Burning

Just more cleaning and burning the past few days. Doug, our son, came out with my Mom (Beverly) last Saturday. It has been good to see them.

Doug has been working on our mystery wiring. We have lots of switches that don't seem to turn anything on or off. Mom & I have been cleaning and burning trash wood. We have also added some to our wood stores.

The wood burning boiler/furnace seems to work fine. In this mild weather (highs mid 50's, lows mid 30's) I only have to fill it once a day. We have been keeping the house FAR warmer than we have in the past. We used to set the thermostat no higher than 70. We have had it up to 75 while Mom has been here. Doug had to strip down to his tee shirt. We do have the registers in our bedroom closed. We have the windows partially open at night, even the night that it got down to freezing. We sleep way better when it is cool. One nice thing is that our master bath has its own register and we can keep it warm while having the bedroom cool. At our house in Lebanon our bathroom and bedroom were on the same hot water heating zone so if one was cool/cold, so was the other.

I like my tractor. Getting chunks of wood the size of the one in the photos below onto the fire would be a problem without it. This piece of wood was partially rotted, but it was still heavy.

I took the photo below at 6:30 last night, the last time I checked the fire. I started this fire Saturday morning and it has burned continuously since then. In the morning it will have burned down to mostly coals but it will still be hot enough to set whatever I throw on it afire. I stirred up the fire at least three minutes before taking the photo. I was surprised at that it was still throwing off sparks.

Today the plan it to go to Moose Brothers, in Russellville, for lunch. They have the best tenderloins, onion rings and breaded mushrooms.  I can already feel my arteries clogged up from all the grease <grin>.

After lunch we are heading over to the Amish grocery store to check it out. It is about 10 miles on the other side of Russellville. Going to a grocery store that has a place to tie your horse, and a place for the employees to corral their horses, is always interesting.