As it says in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: “Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop”
Our firewood has arrived!
Daily we will cut, split, sort and stack this nine cords of wood. Since we are [now] elderly we will only work for three or four hours a day until we are through.
Winter is lurking—just waiting for us— and we must be prepared.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 
Amazing amount of wood there. When I look around your farm I see you do not have all that many trees – we are lucky in that we can always find enough fallen branches and suchlike on our farm.
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You are right, very little trees. We are a high mountain desert.
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That’s a lot of work ahead for you, just to keep cozy this winter.
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Just to keep cozy.
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I remember the excitement of the firewood arriving! I bought mine ready cut into rounds, so I only had to split it, but the splitting was done by hand…. I’m kind of glad I don’t need a wood stove any longer! Our days are getting longer, and we’ve had the coldest day and night.
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Our days are growing shorter now and colder. Spring is almost upon you.
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Spring is an almost invisible season here. We have Wet and Dry, but there’s no gradual appearing of tiny shoots in bare earth, no magnificent blossoming on bare branches… I miss it, rather.
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And you have FLOWERS year round and beautiful green leaves and YAY only WET, not cold!
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Only WET and HOT and HUMID 🙂
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Well, I’ll next the humid….
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That looks and sounds like a lot of work. I have learned there’s always a lot to do on a farm.
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Oh, there is. Sometimes there is too much…it always happens in huge clumps of time.
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I did not realize you could buy wood like that. I always learn something new here :-).
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A load at a time.
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The good(?) thing about this type of firewood is that it warms you twice — once when you cut and stack it and then when you burn it. Don’t over-do while cutting and stacking!
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On Saturday we warmed so much we were exhausted. Then the air cooled down and we even had a little sprinkle so working was actually pleasant.
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WOW! You have quite a job ahead. Take care.
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A little bit every day until we are done!
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I had no idea that you bought wood that size. At least you will have no reason to join a fitness club to get exercise.
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No I don’t need to exercise after a days work. Tee Hee
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We used to go to the forest to cut wood, load it into our pickup, bring it home, take it out of the pickup, cut it into managemable lengths, and stack it ourselves, then in the winter of course bring it in to the woodstove each day. As I’m sure you’d agree, the saying ‘he who cuts his own wood is warmed twice’ is not quite right — it was at least three times. And of course back when we did that — in our former life — we were even younger than you are now (and you are NOT elderly… i don’t even want to be called that and I’m at least a decade older)…. and also, we never needed quite that much wood. It gets cold and damp in Oregon, but nothing like the cold as you get.
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We used to truck up to the mountains also, Sallie, but age crept up on us. So now we order a semi-load. They cut, haul and deliver it. Then we get to do the rest.
Okay…I agree! You all and us are NOT elderly…elderly is the nursing home, 🙂 and non of us are there.
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lots of work ahead!
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I still have a buck stove and, because there are so many trees on the property there is always wood. However, I bought a pellet stove a couple of years ago and love, love, love it. I still use the buck stove but don’t have to feed it 24 hours a day. I can carry sacks of pellets in my car, don’t need the truck, I use a dolly to get them into the house. Life is (finally) so much simpler, and I only use 40 sacks a winter, that’s about $200.
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We are thinking of a pellet stove…every year when its firewood time, Terry thinks of getting a pellet stove.
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Dont you sleep better though, knowing you have your firewood at the farm.
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Yes. I hate to worry.
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Nine cords of wood is a lot! And “only” three to four hours at a time? I can barely last two hours — stacking wood is hard work.
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It is…the sorting, cutting and stacking is hard. We will split with our son–
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Your firewood sure has arrived! Busy times ahead Miss 😃
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Every evening. Every evening. I am looking forward to the end of the pile.
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looks like a lot of work!
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Very much so.
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I remember those days, yes three or four hours is time enough! That is hard work. Someone said you get warm twice from a load of wood, when you cut and stack it and then again when you burn it. We used to have ten cords delivered and then a load of slabs. Cost us $750 and last year LP Tank only took about $450 for the whole year.:)
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Terry is saying this is the last year for us. No more wood. I agree. We are way too old for this. We come home so tired we can’t sleep and start the day exhausted.
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I always wondered just how much a cord of wood was! Is it by size, or weight?
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4′ by 4′ by 8′ Dry volume
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