“Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.”
Bill Watterson
Solar? nu uh
As you can see my trip to the doctors has been delayed another day. That has turned into more rain and probably freezing rain on the highways. I need to chop wood anyways, another arctic blast is on its way. I would like to get ahead and have a little surplus in case of, emergencies.
I learned a few years ago when I slipped on some ice and broke three ribs but still had to chop wood. That was fun.
With my ribs taped up best I could, I managed to drag my electric splitter inside and bring large full-size logs into the fire room and split them including one log that had ten thousand carpenter ants inside it. I got most of them but some did escape and went on to do structural damage to my house.
Big bitey things
So that is why I need the surplus and many times last winter after blizzards and deep drifting snow, I was not able to reach the woodpile even after hours of trying to dig through the snow. The pictures below are from a March blizzard. This is coming again soon.
Ice drifts after a blizzard
4 hours of slow chewing with my snowblower to get this far.
Update: waited till after four pm to chop wood. According to the forecast it was supposed to stop raining, and it did but turned into blowing snow. I put on some safety glasses to keep it out of my eyes and head out to chop. I cut up a log that was 6ft long and about 14″ in diameter yesterday. So I chose that one. It turned out to be rotten and hard to chop. I go it done, loaded my axes and made the 80-yard trek with the wet heavy wood, up the ramp into the house, and I am still alive to tell about it.
6ft (1.83 m) long log 14in dia and a lot of swinging turns it into this
Might too late to get this trailer load of garbage out may have to wait till spring. Hard to see the mini blizzard going on
I found out the pain in my shoulder will interfere with the last push up the ramp, I will be careful of that during the winter months to make sure I don’t have the heavy loads of wood fall back on me.
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