WE FINISHED! Terry and I are dancing with joy….and resting!
Late Saturday evening Terry and I brought home the last two loads. Evan was done with his on Thursday, but we had the huge, gigantic trees left. Four of them. And to clean up the area. See those monsters stacked on each other? There are several stacks around and some tossed into the pile.
It took Terry and I, together-one of us on each side, to lift most of those monsters up and into the truck, then to fling them off.
But we are done!
DONE! DONE!!!!!
And I can proudly say I stacked 90% of this wood into our truck, AND into Evan’s truck.
Now we can rest assured the house will be warm and toasty come winter!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
P.S. We have decided we are NOT going to do wood this way ever again. Ever. Period.
Life on a Colorado Farm 
You’ve definitely had your first warming from this load of wood! And I do think it would be worth paying a bit more to save the huge labour of cutting, loading and stacking your winter heating!
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Getting it already cut would be a huge gift, then Terry can help me load! 🙂
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Knock on wood, you might say!! That is soo nice knowing you can sit down and enjoy the reward of once efforts. For my own part I look out of the window and see that the appletrees once more have delivered the lawn filled with fallen apples, over again! Like Sisyfos.
Please give Boomer and extra pat on the head, I’m sure he helped out a lot!!
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He was a good sitter in the shade..that’s for sure!
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Our wood pile is all ready and in the big shed – so however cold it becomes we are well prepared.
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It’s such a wonderful feeling, isn’t it, Pat?
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Good for you! Always nice to put the hard job behind you and now you’ll be able to enjoy the warmth of the stove. Once it’s split. And stacked. And hauled in. No rest for the weary, eh.
Thanks for sharing.
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You got it…not all has to be split, though, as our wood stove takes nice sized logs.
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oh, good going!
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YES!
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Awesome!!!! Do you still have to split it?
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Just the giant chunks…our stove takes good sized logs. THANKFULLY
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Oh good!
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A tough job done! Will you convert to another heating source?
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Or another way of getting the wood. That is forsure!
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Congratulations on finishing a huge job. (And I don’t blame you for deciding not to get your wood this way again!)!
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Never again. It’s just way too hard.
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Good!
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YES! Good! In more ways than one!
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How many cords of wood do you burn every winter? We use 1 cord maybe a little more not really cold here until December. Ellen from Georgia
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It depends on the winter…sometimes 6 cords sometimes more. It’s our main heat, you see.
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Wow that is a lot of wood, it isn’t as cold here in Georgia as it is in Colorado. Very little snow here maybe once every three or four years
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Winters are terribly long for me, here in our part of Colorado.
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There must be an easier way to stay warm and toasty. You both sure don’t need a gym membership though
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No I don’t! I can’t imagine paying for working out…Tee Hee
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Wow. Just wow. High fives all around!
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Thank you! I’ll take it!
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I always thought that was the hardest chore as a kid. I hating cutting, splitting, and stacking wood as a child.
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It’s hard for an adult….:)
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At least for this adult! 🙂
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Congratulations! And *hugs*. I don’t blame you at all. That is some very heavy wood!
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No better feeling than a winter’s worth of hay in the barn and wood in the shed! We’re set on both counts but if and when we get too old to do wood I believe I’d opt for a pellet stove/furnace.
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We are thinking of a pellet stove…just in the thinking stage.
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I think that’s a good plan. There HAS to be a better way!
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You guys are amazing! That was a huge job ~ Kick back and relax!
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Well done! Big job .. And big smiles your way!
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You have my permission to ease off a bit …LOL! Seriously, you two work SO hard, it makes sense to let somebody else do this part of it next time. But I know it’s a satisfying feeling to have that woodpile all ready …
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It is. But the time has come to do something different. It seems like this year Terry and I have noticed lots of those realizations—little things that used to not take so much effort are now actually hard.
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You guys did it!! Way to go, it is such hard work. Glad you will be warm this winter:)
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We are sure tired of cutting wood.
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