Firewood – stuff you need to do when it’s still dry

8 March 2017
Digger, Dry, Fire, Firewood, Forest, Land, Shelter, Winter

Since I do not have a trailer, I just loaded Mary up. — Firewood in Mary

While it’s so nice and warm, one tends to forget about winter. However the next winter will be coming. So I went down into the forest for a few hours and chopped some of the big pines into smaller pieces and already split some of them, all stuff that we felled last year in August.

You can only get down into the forest when dry, it’s pretty slopy and in winter when everything is wet, there’s no getting back up with the car, not even with a 4×4. The digger driver we had one winter to build the shelter had severe issues getting back up the hill.

Since we only have a horse float that I probably would not be able to get back up the hill (I have never tried but don’t want to), I just loaded Mary’s boot up with the firewood. Note: Mary is our 4×4, everything with motor or soul has a name at our place. Who needs a trailer?

Spring has arrived – with its usual mixed bag weather.

3 November 2025
Egg, Flowers, Garden, Land, Sun

“If you don’t like the weather, just wait 5 minutes.” Spring came with beautiful warm and sunny days, storm, hail, rain and sunshine in between. It was cold and a few hours later warm again and vice versa.

Winter done and dusted

1 September 2025
Alpaca, Animal, Building, Duck, Fire, Fog, Frost, Land, Landscape, Mammal, Night, Rain, Weather, Winter

There was nothing extraordinary to write about this winter, really. It’s not been too wet and not too dry, neither too cold or too warm. We had a few frosty nights and a few pretty rainy days but all in all it was reasonably warm and okay from a mud perspective.