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54 above here today...got down to T shirt working in the yard.

Mid 60s tomorrow.

It was about 10 degrees when I got home from work, with a raw wind out of the south east. It was a bit less than pleasant to walk, but, the pooch shouldn�t be denied. The sunset was beautiful.
It is supposed to be much warmer, tomorrow.

Best,
Ted

Ted,
You're correct, we are in for a good warming this weekend up here. I'll be hitting the clays course for sure.
Karl

And now a word from the world's foremost weather prognosticator:



Happy Groundhog Day.

Global warming will be here before you know it...we used to just call it Summer.

Gen 8:22� While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.�
God's Covenant with Noah after the flood.

Got down to about -35 here, but we missed the snow and strong winds. Normal cold snap. Time to work on my firecracker pack and label collection that likely is world's largest. And yes! Some show double shotguns and muzzle-loaders!

Trees a popping...I know that sound...The box elder trees all around my house sound like somebody shot a .22 in the back yard.
Me, I carve decoys and load 10 ga ammo for my 1894 Rem...

Mergus

Funny you should mention box elder trees.

The front of my property is low land forest, perfect habitat for Box Elder trees.

I cut a bunch of them down, and split them all up into firewood. Worked my butt off, and then nobody would buy it. 60 face cords all ricked up on our front lawn, ready to go. A great store of work.
Then one day, an Amish guy rolls in riding in somebody else�s truck.

He asked me what kind of firewood it was, I said Box Elder, it�s not worth much.

He says �how much will you take for all of it? �. I was a little shocked. I said, do I have to load it?. He said,� no, we will come down with the wagon and get it�.

I shot him price, he extended his hand, we shook, And he peeled off a bunch $100 bills.
I said, what are you gonna do with all this wood? Nobody wants it for firewood, too dry, too small. He said, we shoe horses with it. It lights good, it burns fast, it burns hot and with a little fresh air you can melt steel and no ash.

That�s the one and only time I have ever had anybody look favorably on that crap.

Wood stove in the basement, and a block chute on the side of my house, to drop the wood into the basement. Mine isn�t a pretty stove, with glass in it, it is an old, cast iron �All Nighter� with a ceramic tile floor under it.
My favorite mix is oak, elm and birch. Elm sucks to split, unless it is below zero degrees outside, then it just pops like any other wood. Popple and box elder are ok, if you have plenty of wood of other species to mix with them. I have a ton of black walnut to burn, nothing to mix with it at the moment. But, my chimney needs work, and I�m holding off until it is fixed.
I only run the stove from about 10 above or below. It cooks you out of the place, if it is warmer than that.
I love wood heat.

Best,
Ted