Turned out to be a longer day than I expected. Got a lot of wood cut, then the calls started coming in for delivery. I was still handling firewood as it got dark last night. I couldn't think of a better way to spend my day and it was very fine weather to do it in.
One delivery I was on was to a rather poor family. They were out of wood, and the house was noticeably cold even for me with my wood-cutting clothes on. They were all wearing heavy coats inside. They wrote me a check, and I don't normally like to take checks because around here they have a habit of not being any good. But even if this check does bounce, that's ok, because those two little blonde girls playing with their coats on inside that house need the wood more than I do.
And that made me very happy to think that those little kids were warm in their beds last night, and made all the work I do outside worthwhile.
Later, I regretted taking the check from them at all. I should have just said 'Merry Christmas' and drove away without accepting payment, but I wasn't thinking at the time.
Here I am, in the mirror of my ATV, an extremely rare self portrait:
A little more snow on the ground now. A bit more than this and I will have to hook the bathtub sled up to my ATV, I won't be able to pull the loaded trailer:
Those little cherry trees grow like weeds! Too bad they rarely get big enough to make firewood:
Still able to pull the trailer through the 4 inches of snow:
Yes indeed, my 25+ year old maul handle is finally getting kind of frazzled. I'm not sure how many more years it will last:
Many large flocks of Canada Geese flying over yesterday, heading south:
Some of my woodland buddies watching me run the chainsaw. I guess the hunters didn't get them all:
And a few snowy scenes:
One delivery I was on was to a rather poor family. They were out of wood, and the house was noticeably cold even for me with my wood-cutting clothes on. They were all wearing heavy coats inside. They wrote me a check, and I don't normally like to take checks because around here they have a habit of not being any good. But even if this check does bounce, that's ok, because those two little blonde girls playing with their coats on inside that house need the wood more than I do.
And that made me very happy to think that those little kids were warm in their beds last night, and made all the work I do outside worthwhile.
Later, I regretted taking the check from them at all. I should have just said 'Merry Christmas' and drove away without accepting payment, but I wasn't thinking at the time.
Here I am, in the mirror of my ATV, an extremely rare self portrait:
A little more snow on the ground now. A bit more than this and I will have to hook the bathtub sled up to my ATV, I won't be able to pull the loaded trailer:
Those little cherry trees grow like weeds! Too bad they rarely get big enough to make firewood:
Still able to pull the trailer through the 4 inches of snow:
Yes indeed, my 25+ year old maul handle is finally getting kind of frazzled. I'm not sure how many more years it will last:
Many large flocks of Canada Geese flying over yesterday, heading south:
Some of my woodland buddies watching me run the chainsaw. I guess the hunters didn't get them all:
And a few snowy scenes:
