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Yes, you're quite right, I am simply much too fond of puns... (And my apologies to My Fair Lady.)
We had a wood-burning insert installed in our fireplace (back in the spring),
so I had a need for a supply of well-seasoned firewood.
What you see here are two piles of wood, each one about a cord of wood. (A cord is a legal measure of wood:
a stacked pile eight feet by four feet by four feet) |
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| And here is some of that wood now stacked into piles, each eight feet long
(each pile stacked on top of a pair of eight foot long pressure-treated
timbers). The leftmost pile is about five feet high, the rightmost one
is a bit over three feet high. They are in my garden area, so I will use
them first so they will be gone before spring. |
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And here is a pair of piles, somewhat jumbo-sized, both twelve feet long
and almost six feet high.
I have no idea how much wood we will consume this winter. We have found
that we absolutely love having a fire burning but we aren't trying to heat
the house with this so we won't be burning it 24 hours a day. |
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| Of course we also have our own wood from the trees we had cut down this
spring. I have been splitting some of this wood and stacking it (as you
can see here) but I think of this as being next winter's firewood because
it is best to use well-seasoned (i.e., aged) firewood. (By the way, I have
tarps to protect my wood piles from rain and snow.) |
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And here is what it looks like in action...
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