Yesterday, we started unloading the Pres-to-Logs from the utility trailer. Although Lisa can't use her left arm due to the rotator cuff injury, she did move logs from the pallet to where I could more easily reach them and put them into a wheelbarrow. I then moved them about 24 at a time to the wood box, where I moved them into the wood box. Lisa ( Read more... )

One of the suggestions that came in yesterday when I described how we have to hand-move the Pres-to-Logs from the trailer to the woodbox (only a few meters) was to build a ramp and roll the logs down it. While it's understandable, I don't think it would work.

( Cracked Up )

This morning, very light snow (not enough to stick) was falling when I went out to wave at Amtrak coming through. Little bits of cold rain, sleet, or snow fell off and on throughout the morning. There was a break in the weather and around 1:30 PM we decided to take a shot at getting that firewood unloaded.

( Firewood, Completed )

It stopped raining this morning, but it is forecast to start again later today, so while Lisa was awake, I took a break from Day Jobbe (with the permission of my manager) and Lisa and I set to shifting another ton of firewood from the utility trailer to the wood box.

( Lot of Logs )

It has been raining today, which means we can't unload the pallet of firewood today.

( Keeping the Wood Dry )

It got so warm here yesterday and today that we let the fireplace go out overnight, and I think I'll not relight it until tomorrow, when the storm currently hitting California is forecast to start affecting us and take temperatures back below freezing. For the time being, we're enjoying that highs in excess of 15°C.

( Cleaning the Fireplace and Collecting Another Pallet of Logs )

As I mentioned earlier, after we unloaded the Press-to-Logs, Lisa broke out the electric saw and we reduced the wood we salvaged from the West Lot last year and other bits of wood that have been cluttering our yard.

( Not Much, but it Burns )

This morning, after the sun came out and the temperatures rose above freezing, Lisa and I unloaded the ton of firewood from the utility trailer to the wood box. After that, the weather was nice enough that Lisa got out the saw and with some help from me she cut down to burnable size the rest of the wood we salvaged from the clearance of the west ( Read more... )

As of today, we down to about two weeks worth of firewood. Fortunately, Big R had a couple of pallets of Press-to-Logs in stock, so yesterday I went down and paid for one and put it on hold. This morning, Lisa hitched up the Small Orange Pickup (the Astro is still in the shop and I don't know when I will get it back), we dragged the utility trailer ( Read more... )

Lisa and I got the ton of firewood into the wood box yesterday afternoon.

( Wood Secured )