The Weekend Pundit just fired up his woodstove for the season. Now he needsto get it together and find a new snowblower since we are supposed to get another 4-8" of the white stuff tonight.
I did a burn in run on the woodstove this weekend. Burn in runs are a very short, barely hot fire (let it get to 300 degrees and shut her down) to drive the moisture out of the soapstone. Soapstone is porous and will collect moisture during humid weather, and if you just build a roaring fire from the get-go, the soapstone will crack.
Wednesday night I started the first real fire, and I have started a fire every night since then. This weekend it will be goin all day, for both days.
WS called the wood guy and he will be delivering a cord of wood to another person who needs it. Fortunately that person has managed to scrape up a little bit of wood, because the wood guy can't deliver until the beginning of next week - just after the snow.
I only got to ride to work one day this week (Tuesday). We are hoping that Mother Nature relents and it warms back up for a couple more weeks before we have to take the bikes in for storage. At least warms up enough to take the snow off the ground so we can get the bikes to storage!
Bogie--I did a double take at your "called the wood guy" - before reading the rest of the sentence, at which point it made sense. It sounds to me like you (plural) and your wood recipient have done a good job of communicating. Congratulations!
It is coolish and frosty, here, but I insulated the backflow valve to the irrigation system (winter servicing of which has been pushed back to mid-November by the re-re-overseeding of our lawn) using a large waste basket, one section of the pink, rubber insulated drapery from Dudette's old room, and two 3-cu-ft bags of shredded cedar mulch. Luckily, the shrubbery shields the view from the street so I have just left the insulation in place until we have the winter servicing done.
I feel for the folks in the WV/VA area.
Posted by: Cop Car | October 29, 2011 at 09:52 AM