1st night of burning wood in the 2021 Fall season.

[OAITW r.2.0]

Leftovers from early 2021. Still have 2.5 cords to stack underneath the back deck. Such is life, living in rural Maine. Keeping my oil heat at 64 degrees.

[duhneece]

1. Where in Maine?

I lived at Loring AFB 60 years ago but my husband and I want to go to Acadia so bad and have since before Covid.

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. Dexter, Maine.

1/2 way between the Equator and North Pole - right smack in the middle of Nowhere!

[duhneece]

11. Where they used to make marvelous shoes? I had a pair of sandals for over 20 years...

And a friend I met here in Alamogordo New Mexico from Dexter...April Wiehn Cray Rhodes...such a small world when we start asking!
Talk about right smack in the middle of nowhere...check out La Luz, NM...not even a village or small town; just a Post Office, elementary school and a gas/tiny grocery store.

[OAITW r.2.0]

12. The one and only....

Not anymore, though....checked out La Luz on Google Earth....hows like a hot place to live!

[alittlelark]

3. Here in NM I started almost 2 weeks ago.

Currently doing early AM fires that are re-ignited at sunset. It is my only real heat source in a way too big house. In a week or two the stove will be running non-stop till sometime in late April. 4-5 cords a year.

[OAITW r.2.0]

4. Maybe time to downsize and better heat efficiently?

If you are alone and/or with a partner, we should sell too big homes to families that need the space. New, young families.

[alittlelark]

6. This old BnB is an investment property.

It is in a beautiful deep river valley on the river. I am landscaping the 5 acres and living the the old 5 bedroom BnB with 3 bedrooms cut off with heavy cloth. The fact that I have 23' high glass windows on 2 sides that have stellar views is both a blessing and a curse.

[bello]

5. In IA, going to start any day now

It’s our only heat source, no oil or propane backup. Two cords a year in also way too big of a house. Luckily, it is super insulated. -B

[alittlelark]

7. I guess you have good fruitwoods or hardwods readily available?

I am in the High Desert and have to pay a premium for those luxuries.

4-5 cords is average in this zip code.

[bello]

8. Red oak and ash

The last of the ash are dying from emerald ash borer, so just a few of those. Mostly red oak. I’ve got 80 acres of timber, so I usually cut and split the easy stuff. This year, however, I spent a lot of time cleaning up after the derecho in August of last year.

The derecho left some pretty big pieces lying on the ground. Manhandling a 250 pound round of red oak is really hard on my seventy plus year old body. I do have a log lift on my splitter. That helps a lot. -B

[alittlelark]

9. Envy - pinion pine and the rare fruitwood sateme over the winter.

I go deep and get a cord or so of oak - guard it jealously.

[ramen]

10. Tis the season. Here's to it nt