Cold is merciless. It shows you where you are. What you are.
Wim Hof
Wow just went out to chop the few logs left. The wind was blowing, I was only out there a matter of minutes.
I filled the snow bowls, then I filled the sled with every scrap piece of wood and the wood I chopped. Dragged that all inside.
I stopped to take a few quick pics. My hands froze in seconds. I got back inside and stacked what I had.
I swept together some of the scraps I had gathered and filled the big dustpan full, and threw those into the fire. Twice. I was hoping they would help the snow melt quicker.
Later today, I would have to brave the weather at least two more times. One to cut wood and transport and another to chop that wood and bring it inside.
Each trip had to be 15 minutes at the very most. or chance frostbite or worse frozen skin. Worse is the wood was buried under ice and snow. I needed to dig it out. There wasn’t much left under there. I also saw we have a snowstorm coming Saturday. Predictions are 35CM will fall.
The chain on the chainsaw was dull even after sharpening. I have a new one sitting in the town, but my vehicle doesn’t run in these temps. Just one more thing. The delivery was late because of the climate change events that wiped out the highways between Vancouver and here.
Not even enough to cover me for the afternoon. Same wet rotten poplar throws no heat
Just checked the temp in the fire room, 6 degrees. I needed to find drier wood today. Water filtration units are frozen. Upstairs in my loft, 8 degrees. I moved one of the collection bottles which was solid ice upstairs. It was frozen solid. I needed to move the filtration units upstairs today. The difficult one was full of water now ice.
The hoses at the bottom of the water filter frozen
Second load
Finished cutting and chopping the best I could. I learned about a problem with my new saw. If you leave it idle in the cold, the exhaust melts the snow into the chain. Then the extreme cold freezes the chain. The saw has to come inside and chain needs to come off and be placed somewhere warm. The only problem, I don’t have that. Inside is 5 degrees.
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