got the winter time blues.

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RIDGERUNNER30

RIDGERUNNER30

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Feb 7, 2009
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seems like the past week it has rain everyday and the temps are in the upper 40's and low 50's. To warm for a fire and it's so nasty and muddy outside you can not get outside to do some of the things i need to catch upon like spliting some wood for next year, wash the truck, clean the back yard, remodel the kitcken , but this weather just plain sucks, I have enjoyed burning my stove, it has give me something to do on these long winter days, hoping to have some more cold weather.
 
Highbeam, are you feeling for this guy? :p

J/K RidgeRunner. You've just described about 90% of our winter.
 
I know the feeling. My yard is a total mud pit right now. Moved next years wood pile in the rain today (getting ready to start building a new garage). I only got the lawn tractor stuck in the mud once though!!

Didn't have much choice but to do it in the rain today, since all week, its dark by the time we get home, and I want to start excavating for the concrete floor next weekend.

It's 48 degrees outside right now. Probably too warm to light the stove and get decent draft. I'm ready for real winter to come back and freeze the ground so that the dogs don't keep coming back to the house all muddy.

Can we start a petition for some real winter?

-SF
 
Yeah I know. Forecast was for mid fifties today so I didn't reload this morning. Just turned on a heater. Waited and waited all day and it never got out of the low forties and it was cold downstairs because it was cloudy and drizzled all day. At three or four o'clock I checked NOAA and they said it may get up to fifty after midnight and heavy rain. About eight it was ten degrees below forecast and I said the heck with it I am going to knock the chill off this joint. Put three large splits in the 30 with half a Super Cedar and lit'er off. While it was starting up I came back and did a refresh on the NOAA page. Forecast changed to 60 degrees by two in the morning and two to three inches of rain. Looked at the outside thermo and the temp was rising fast as the rain started to fall. Looked back at the stove and it has settled into the burn to die for. The one you try for every time and love to finally get.

Whoops! This place is gonna be a sauna tonight.
 
BrotherBart said:
About eight it was ten degrees below forecast and I said the heck with it I am going to knock the chill off this joint.
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If i didn't have the first year burner's wood supply blues, i'd be doing the same thing. As long as it's warm enough to stay on the heat pump and out of the propane, I just let the stove take a break. Next year will probably be a different story, I've got 6-8 cords split, bucked or in logs within 100' of the house, but it's all still metering at 28-36%, so it will sit for a year or two.
 
That's what our weather did early last week. It would peak out at around 60 degrees at 2 in the morning. A little cooler now at 43, so today we have been burning for the first time in about a week. If this continues we will be experiencing the warmest January on record. Not what the folks up in Vancouver want to hear.
 
jcims said:
BrotherBart said:
About eight it was ten degrees below forecast and I said the heck with it I am going to knock the chill off this joint.
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If i didn't have the first year burner's wood supply blues, i'd be doing the same thing. As long as it's warm enough to stay on the heat pump and out of the propane, I just let the stove take a break. Next year will probably be a different story, I've got 6-8 cords split, bucked or in logs within 100' of the house, but it's all still metering at 28-36%, so it will sit for a year or two.
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If I had a heat pump or propane I would have done what you are doing. Turned on the oil filled space heaters this morning and watching that BlueLine power monitor zip through the kilowatt hours and the place still being chilly just got to me after awhile. The BlueLine is great but it can be too much of a good thing to have that usage looking you in the face in real time. :shut:
 
BrotherBart said:
Yeah I know. Forecast was for mid fifties today so I didn't reload this morning. Just turned on a heater. Waited and waited all day and it never got out of the low forties and it was cold downstairs because it was cloudy and drizzled all day. At three or four o'clock I checked NOAA and they said it may get up to fifty after midnight and heavy rain. About eight it was ten degrees below forecast and I said the heck with it I am going to knock the chill off this joint. Put three large splits in the 30 with half a Super Cedar and lit'er off. While it was starting up I came back and did a refresh on the NOAA page. Forecast changed to 60 degrees by two in the morning and two to three inches of rain. Looked at the outside thermo and the temp was rising fast as the rain started to fall. Looked back at the stove and it has settled into the burn to die for. The one you try for every time and love to finally get.

Whoops! This place is gonna be a sauna tonight.
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Same here BB. Let the stove have a break. Pulled the bricks and sucked out the ash, wiped the glass. Wife says its chilly in here around the time the Saints-Vikings game started, so I tossed in a couple pieces and fired her up. Now it's over 60 outside and 80 in here and climbing. We're opening windows tonight!
 
Mud, mud whats mud? O ya I seem to remember something that comes for a week or 2 each year.
 
I was going to let the stove go out yesterday morning but just let it cool enough so I could check the cat. That took maybe 3 minutes and I kindled a fire as the temperature was still around freezing. Kept the stove going from there on but it did get pretty warm in the evening. I opened a window a crack for about 1/2 hour and all was well. 32 degrees this morning with some flurries; stove still going albeit softly.
 
Took the opportunity yesterday to let the fire go out and clean the chimney. Today it's starting to snow, so colder weather
moving east soon.
 
northwinds said:
Took the opportunity yesterday to let the fire go out and clean the chimney. Today it's starting to snow, so colder weather
moving east soon.
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Yep. 62 and breezy outside right now with the weather guy telling us it will crash into the low twenties after dark.
 
I'm using the break in cold weather to replace some windows, although with the torrential downpours we had today I had to work on the ones that open out under the porch.
 
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