WWQP Bulletin Board Chat

I love seeing pictures of flower gardens at this time of year, Marion, the lilies are lovely. I also love all four seasons of the year that we have here in southern Ontario, Canada. Winter has not yet really come and it's January already. By that I mean whirling dervishes of snow flakes piling one on top of the other to leave a three or four or six inch blanket upon the ground. I miss a good old fashioned snow storm but then, for those who need to commute from here to the city, this winter has given them a break, so far. I have been carrying around this photo in the car for several months. Himself says: if you had a digital camera you could upload all these pictures for your website and be done with it. I said: then I'd miss going into town and teasing the owner of the Copy Shop who is always complaining about being broke. Yesterday, when I had two photos scanned and sent to my computer, I tipped him one whole penny. Made his day and mine with laughter. So, here is how we heat our home in the country (we do have an electric furnace but the cost is great and while himself has the strength and interest to saw up all these logs, we've heated with wood for twenty-two of our twenty-three years here). For me, it's an exciting day and I think so, for himself, too, when we see this big truck pull up over the hill in our laneway and head down towards the house. We can hear this truck from the corner, some distance away, as he makes his turn, then into our laneway, more engine noise as he pulls this heavy load up the hill and down. The logging is done in Algonquin Park, a natural reserve (not too far from where Grace lives) where the loggers are given certain areas in which to log trees and clean out areas that need doing according to the forestry experts who look after this area. These trees were just cut this summer and will not burn as well as trees left a year to dry out but we had no choice in the matter this year. Thus, it takes a bit of doing to get a nice hot fire going but with a woodstove in the back of the house in the family room and a fireplace insert in the livingroom at the front, both airtights, we manage quite well. We also dress warmly all winter as well. Just thought it might interest the likes of Marion, Sara and Bee who live in warmer climes what can go on in sourcing out our winter's warmth indoors.

Rosey