Terry and I have been hauling wood for winter fires.
We have three more large box pick-up loads to go then we should be set for those dreary, long, miserable, horrid, nasty, bitter, ugly cold months. (I guess by this sentence you get the impression that I hate winter. 🙂 )
We are hauling pine beetle killed trees…nothing alive, only downed or standing dead tree.
We gather the firewood on Friday’s, which pretty much zonks me for Saturday. We were both wondering, after this last load, if we can keep this up for several more years or not. I guess we will just have to have it delivered, if and when that time comes.
(Although, NOW we do have the propane furnace fixed so we have a very expensive back-up if we need it.)
While tossing and sorting I happened to look up and see a very cool site!
A HEART! I’m going to save this little gift of love and put it some place rather cool in my garden!
A gift of love from nature!
Your friend on a farm!
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 
I find heart rocks sometimes, but never a tree. A gift!
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Like it…. that’s some serious woodpile!
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We’ve finally bitten the bullet and are getting our wood burning fireplace converted to propane. It may cost more, but I have a feeling my back will appreciate the change. Oh, the joys of old age!
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What a lovely gift from nature. I’m sure it will be a good addition to your garden,
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Bringing wood In for the winter is a big deal here, too. We burn juniper, which burns hot and similar to a hard wood. Very aromatic. Loved the picture…talk about your heart wood, lol.
I hate winter, too. It lasts about 8 months here. Bummer
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Maybe that tree is saying, ‘ I’ll warm your heart during those nasty, miserable, dreary, cold, ugly days of winter’? 🙂
On second thought, it would look awesome in the yard.
Cheri
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I heart this!
Nothing better than having a stack of wood ready and drying for winter. Which reminds me we should get a delivery in!
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So satisfying to have that wood in!
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you should link this to guest heart thursday at http://www.clytie-randomhearts.blogspot.com/ really cool!
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Hooray!! My blog let me know that you had a new post!
I wish I could give you all the wood from our downed trees. Probably 2 cords at least. Green, but it will be great in a year or so.
Question: Does the pine fill your chimney up with dangerous pitch and soot?
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Hi There, We are home from a trip to the gorgeous West VA mountains –where we celebrated our anniversary… I’ll be blogging about this time for awhile –since it was so special.
Love your big wooden heart… That is truly a gift from nature…
Hugs,
Betsy
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I do sympathise, I used to burn wood to heat my house too, and unloading and stacking the logs, splitting and carting them upstairs to my house was my job – no-one to help! Those logs look as if they wouldn’t be too hard to split, though…
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I was wondering about the pine, too. Is it hard to clean out after you burn it?
A garden piece or a slice to hang in the house somewhere. 🙂
Have a blessed week. ♥
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So cool! I was just looking at a decorating blog this morning and they used a log as a little end table and painted the top. Made me want to go out and find a log!
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Beautiful! This will warm your heart many times over.
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Happiness is a full wood shed, I always think. I’ve just had a couple of people cutting fallen trees on my land and stacking it in the wood box. It’s a good sight. I don’t do it myself any more. Love the heart shaped tree.
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❤ the log! Ditto your feelings on winter…… Except I am learning to make myself appreciate the beauty of it since it takes up more than its fair share of the year.
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We always say here Linda that wood warms you four times – once when you saw the tree down, once when you haul the logs in, once when you chop them up and again when you burn them on your stove. My old father in law used to say that the way to let it warm you five times was to burn a certain kind of pine, which would spark out of the grate so often you would have to keep dashing around stamping on where the sparks were igniting the carpet. (I think that the wood he was speaking of was probably larch)
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That’s going to be an adorable garden decoration. Wood cutting/splitting//stacking is hard hard work … this (unlike all the other hard work you do) I know from experience as we burned wood for years. Nothing like the cold you have, but Oregon winters are damp and gray and the cold seeps into your bones … our house had electric ceiling heat. Yikes! Inefficient and expensive (even back then) and your feet would be cold all the time. It only took us one winter to get and install wood stoves. We used to go to the nearby forests to cut where it was allowed and also to wood lots that the paper mills would open up. A family operation — all six of us had a job and I would be still wiped out the next day. But boy it feels good in the winter. Bill and I still did it for awhile after the kids were gone, but the last few years in the house, we ordered it…still split and stacked it though.
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How perfectly lovely! That heart stump must have been such fun to find! My parents heated with wood my entire life–the house is still heated primarily with wood. And the winters can get long and dark. This summer seems to be extra sweet somehow. Even though it is warm.
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