How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
3:11 AM
I just started to use the last of my firewood. I am burning as low as I can. My firewood, what’s left is buried under a deep blanket of darkness and snow. There is no way to get more.
I have some lumber inside, but I need daylight to cut it. I also need to get it outside to cut. That wood is my emergency supply.
After that is used, it is time to panic. I have two more days left of the latest cold snap.
By tonight, it will be -45.
10 AM
I went outside to clear the solar panels of snow. It was the first time I had to use a snow shovel. The snow was deep
I also needed to gather snow for melt. It took me less than ten minutes. My hands were almost to the point of frostbite. That was with my warmest thinsulate gloves.
I surveyed my driveway while I was out there, the circumstances dire. The snow was deep and had drifted during the windstorm caused by arctic air rushing in after the two-day snowstorm.
My supply of wood inside made me cringe. I had enough to get me till four o’clock maybe. With no chance of finding more in the deep snow. I would have to find a way.
Even colder temps are forecasted for tonight.
I just swept the secondary cat bathrooms (the floor) and the piles of sawdust and wood debris from chopping. That added another few hours of burning. About 40 pounds worth. Yup, cat poo burns.
It is why I started using wood pellets for litter. Originally I burned it in the fire. It was more eco-friendly, from renewable trees. And a lot cheaper.
But my cats outgrew the amounts I could burn and of course no burning in the summer. I have a huge pile of it outside.
I would have to deal with that. Usually by adding hot ashes from the fire. It smoulders for months till the pile is gone.
This year I may have to find a way to turn that into fuel for heat. It burns low and slow.
Great for warmer winters.
1:20 PM
Just cut up some of my emergency salvaged lumber. That and some cat litter will keep me warm tonight.
There was 40 pounds of nails in there. Somehow I only managed to hit one, but one was maybe enough to destroy the chain.
Looked like so much more in the sled.
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