A few years back, we had a hurricane in august and were without power for 7 days. I used nearly all my firewood, not for heat, but for cooking. I no longer do any clearing or takedowns and so have much less in the way of wood supply. Along about a couple of days before Hallow'een, we had a monster snow storm which brought even more, a lot more, devastation than any hurricane within my memory. we were, again, without electricity for 7 days. we were actually expecting a longer period. Within a couple of days, my wood supply was depleted.
My son to the rescue. He had a large pile of logs in his back yard which he had planned to take to the local sawmill. Since he was also without power, along with neighbors, he put his crew to cutting the logs into firewood lengths and splitting. He brought a pile of the split wood to our house. A gift we were most happy to receive, since we needed the wood not only for cooking, but to heat our house.
I wanted to cry when i loaded the first pieces of "fire wood" into my stove. That wood was "saving our lives"; but I did wish that somehow that pile could have been put to a better use. almost all of the fire wood was clear and very straight grained WALNUT. [eek] [crying]
Tinker
