This is one of the things I love to do. I’m not very good at chain-sawing, but just like many other things I’m not good at, I get better with practice. If whatever I’m blogging about is something you’re interested in, you can learn from (or laugh at) my inexperience, and I lack pride to the point that I don’t mind learning in public. My experience with homesteading did not spring full-grown from my forehead. I’m learning as I go, and that’s what this blog is about.

This is the remainder of the wood pile whose image I posted last Friday. I’ll probably get a couple of cords out of it, but since I want at least six cords drying this summer, I have a ways to go.

Becca took this shot and I guess she was playing with camera angle, which is why everything’s diagonal. In the background you can see our woodshed, now filling up with the accoutrements of summer. That big black thing is the car-top carrier we got for our vacation in two weeks. As big as it is, the BGF just doesn’t have much cargo room, so a car-top carrier will help when we all pile in.

After the firewood is blocked comes the splitting and stacking, and then my winter fuel can dry and crack in the summer sun while I’m off doing other things. When school starts (and I’ve doubled the size of the wood shed), all my wood will be brown and dry and cracked–ready for storage. Then into the shed it goes, and let the rains begin.