State of the woodshed report
Last
year at this time, we'd run out of wood. I was too ashamed to
admit to the blogosphere that we'd gone back to electric heat in
January (albeit setting the thermostat around 50), which is too bad
because that means I don't know exactly when we ran out of wood in 2010
or even whether we bought one truckload of wood or two. So I
thought I'd post a state of the woodshed report so that we'll be able
to compare next year --- hopefully we'll have tightened our house up
more and maybe have used even less wood!
The
photos at the top of the page show how much wood we've got left in the
shed --- I figure it's perhaps a quarter to a third of the first
truckload. The princess has clearly served us well,
cutting back our wood use considerably despite much colder than average
conditions through most of December and January. Meanwhile, our
second truckload is still waiting at the parking area to be ferried in
now that this iceberg has mostly thawed out of the driveway, making it
passable by golf
cart again. (Well, mostly passable --- I managed to get her stuck
twice yesterday, but Mark popped her free.) It's a good feeling
to know that even if February is
a doozy, we'll be warm.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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