Cottage photos

[lupus_lupus]

People on my flist, please read this locked version of this same post as it has more photos.

Here are some photos from our cottage trip two weeks ago when we were there for a week. There are photos of people working on things at the cottage, food photos, sunset photos, nightless night photos and photos of stuff at the cottage since I intend to

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[kusoyaro]

Firewood has to be dry for a year before you can use it? How come?

[lupus_lupus]

You're missing all the photos with people in them, if you read this entry instead of the locked entry. (Not that there were that many this time around.)

Firewood has to be dry for a year before you can use it? How come?

No, it takes about a year for firewood to dry properly from the time that you cut down the tree and chopped it into firewood. If you try to use wood that was cut down only recently (in your fireplace for example), you won't be able to light it with matches and tinder. It's too wet at that point. I didn't know that it takes so much time for wood to dry after you've cut it down, as I've never had to worry about things like this before now. We're in real trouble at the cottage because we don't have any dry wood to use there this Summer. (It's a long story.)

[kusoyaro]

I saw the other post too :P

And that's what I meant, it takes a year for it to dry? Crazy. Can't you just leave it baking out in the sun or something to speed up the process? How are people camping out in the woods able to build fires if fresh wood is that difficult to burn?

[lupus_lupus]

Yeah, I think that it's pretty crazy too, but that's what mom's companion said and he most probably knows this stuff. If you leave wood out to dry, then it will get wet when it rains. Apparently the best way is to put the wood to dry in a woodshed, which has good ventilation so that the air circulates in it. And you don't want to pile the wood too tightly so that air can get to it.

How are people camping out in the woods able to build fires if fresh wood is that difficult to burn?If you cut down a living tree, it's going to be too wet to burn. But you can cut down trees that are dead, like trees that don't have any leaves and that have lost their bark. Those should be pretty dry on the inside and good for burning. Also any branches that have fallen off trees should be dry (at least if it hasn't rained too recently). I'm not an expert on this, but I'd say that people who are camping in the woods would use those kind of dry branches. That's what I'm going to be collecting off the woods for heating the sauna the next time that I'm going