WWQP Bulletin Board Chat

Getting ready for winter

Well, Sara, it is true, someone in the Algonquin Park region of Southern Ontario did indeed cut down parts of a forest. He has the rights to take out so much wood each year. This cutting down of trees in certain areas will only last so long too. He is given certain areas in which he's allowed to cut. We've been doing this for close to 23 years now. We have a wood insert in the living room which heats the front of the house and upstairs (to some degree) and a wood stove in the back part of the house in the family room which heats the kitchen and dining area plus my studio as well. Also, I have quilts hanging in my doorways to keep the heat in certain rooms. Hydro here is very expensive and our furnace is electric. Some winters we don't turn it on at all. Putting in a wood stove is not as easy as just taking it out when you move. There is a large pipe to put in and it goes up through the ceiling and out to the outside on the roof. It isn't an easy solution to non-permanent heating problems. A friend is coming on Wed. I'll ask her to bring her digital camera to take a picture of the finished load and post it. It's really quite something but we both enjoy the parts of wood cutting each of us do...Himself does the major part of the hard work and I do the stacking...the easy part...good for the waistline.

The photos really liven up the board, don't they. It takes me into different parts of the world and into different people's lives.

Fran, Shannon had fun the Thanksgiving he was with us, I think. It's a Canadian thing, eh!!

Rosey

posted by RoseyP @ 3:47 PM