Nothing like a wood stove to keep you warm!! Thanks for all the pictures!! Hugs, Laura*

You will be ready come next year, I love your tin man. Looks the the snow is gone

wow that is so much work for the two of you to keep doing! I hope that you have some help with this. Our kids do this too but they have to buy as no free woods for them to cut it. They are young enough to do it lol

Were these pictures recent Carolyn as there seems to be no snow around the place and I thought you were almost covered by it? Such a lot of physical work having to move it from place to place. Hope you don't get too tired from doing it all.

Such a great pile up of wood for your fireplace. Do keep warm. Love Chris

That must keep you both fit, love your tin man, Jean xx

Hey - I like the little guy who is guarding your wood shed (on the orange rope)!! He has an important job. I know very well the benefits of a cozy warm wood stove or fireplace. Thankfully, we don't "depend" on wood for heat, except when our power goes out. But we like to have a fire in winter on the cold nights as well. So we keep a big stack in the back yard all the time. Had to bring down about a dozen trees this past fall, including a huge oak and my last cherry tree. They will make great fires next season.

You and John work very hard in your north woods bush country. I hope your sons help out with the heavy work of taking down the trees and bringing them to your property. Stay warm!

Yep, that is a lot of work but does provide a nice warm heat! Go rest up now you both deserve a break!

WOW, Carolyn that is a lot of work. We used to get wood for our stove when we lived in the house, but now in a condo the heat is supplied. Like you say there is nothing like a wood burning stove to heat the house. Don't you and John work to hard, and hope your kids are helping you.Love your little tin man. Hugs Lynn

We have a wood fire but it also burns coal. Sorry to say that we buy the wood (& coal) in. You get double warmth your way, once when you cut and store then again when you burn the wood

That is a lot of wood. Do you and John ever sleep?
Hugs
Jerri

How do you get so much done? You must be quick about it I guess. I am still trying to pick a design.

Oh ! Carolyn that is some stack of wood. Love the tin man guarding, This lot should keep you both warm, it is very hard work .I don't know how you get all the lovely embroidering you do finished, you must have exteded hours in your days. Keep warm. Sandra

Yes wood fires are a lot of work, but you cannot beat the warmth and glow from them they have a feel all of there own. I was born and bred to wood fires, and I would hate to have to have electric heaters to keep warm. Hugs Shirley

Hey we have a wood heater and I love spending an afternoon in the woods as my husband cuts and I load. it's warmer in our house and the best part is we don't have a high heating bill. We keep enough cut and stacked for 2 to 3 years. We are saving at least $400 a month and I count it as a blessing. Keep up the good work. We sure are. Roberta

wow! an education on wood storage. I grew up in a very old home and it had a coal furnace. The trucks came and delivered coal and shoveled the coal in the basement via a coal shute and the coal was shoveled into a hopper and went to the furnace. My dad had to pull big cinders out with long tongues. Do people not have furnaces in their homes or it it too costly? My poor little totally electric home would be a cash cow in Canada. Putting wood inside your home would be an open invitation to all termites to come and feast. Do you have termites in Canada? Kay

Woo Hoo, I can see this is a very hard job. do you just chop from any of the trees, do you have to pay to do this.
Hugs Pam.

Here in Oregon my parents still mainly heat by wood stove and take all the kindling my husband creates in the cabinet shop as it is great for starting fires. We too can get permits to get trees that are already fallen but generally my dad walks their many acres of property looking for limbs or trees that have come down especially after storms. They have had years they have needed to purchase cords of wood but is still much cheaper than electric and wood seems to warm you up better. They have 2 wood stoves, one in the living area and a small one in their bedroom at the other end of the house. I am glad your shed is close to the house which would help and also great you have the chute to load through. If you have a few seasons of wood here then you do not need to bring it in your house more than a few days ahead of needing it, but being in the house it will help the wood to dry out and burn better(hotter). Glad you have a group that goes out together and helps each other as it makes the work go faster and easier. I sure do not miss splitting wood! Sadly the house we live in does not have a wood stove so we live with a well functioning oil furnace and then also have an electric waterbed but I seem to always be cold even wearing wool socks even in my warm toasty waterbed! Thankfully we also have rice or wheat bags we can zap in the microwave and those help to take the chill out of me. Thanks for the photos. Pam

Don't know why but couldn't pull out any of your pics Carolyn.Do you have a log splitter? We have electric heat but neighbor boy uses wood mostly with some back up propane gas. He purchased a log splitter and sells cords of wood faster than he can cut it up, he,s only home 3 days a week so stays really busy. After storms he bets all the trees he wants. People pay him to clear the trees out and he gets the wood. They are a young couple with a 1 yr old and she doesn't work outside home. He re ently bought her a nice emb. Machine with the wood money. Cutting wood is hardworking!/lillian

Wow...glad you and John have help!

Boy, you have a lot of wood. Too bad you are not closer to Tennessee as when we had the ice storm, we have a lot of fallen trees that need to be cut. No, we do not have a woodburning stove. Want free wood???????

wow what a lot of wood and just a lot of work as well and it deffinitly needs team work to chop and stack nothing to beat a wood fire but wow a lot of energy to prepair for that luxury