Winter Wood

Well. I'll just have to turn my head sideways to look at this photo since it won't go in the way it's supposed to. What the heck.

At any rate, I'm making progress on growing my wood stacks, yes I am!

And I've got a bunch of kindling neatly in place too.

Below you'll see a part of what still needs to be organized, aside from the basement stuff. This is mostly thick slabs of bark that came off of the big old cottonwood trunks, with kindle bundles on top of them. All of this stuff will get moved downstairs as I find time, and be in its own little spot.

As I'm working my way toward conducting my annual wood gather in an Orderly Fashion, I'm realizing that I have to do some rearranging. The tables in the basement with their sticks need to be moved over to make way for the next rows of stacks, for starters. The big chunks are going to stay where they are because I am NOT going to move them until it's time to figure out how to split them. The table with all sorts of miscellaneous stuff setting on it needs to be cleared off and moved to the other side of the basement. The assortment of boards that's hogging a lot of the space down there (haven't posted a photo of that mess yet) has to be rassled into some kind of order, too. 

But, being as I have to run a couple of errands before I head out for my shift-work today, tonight will have to be soon enough to start on all that.

So much for getting any writing done, huh?

Oh well. 

So it goes.

I'll write this winter when my woodstove is keeping me toasty warm. And I'll write about something besides wood-gathering.