Another Year’s Worth of Firewood
Posted by Laura-Jane - Whimfield in Outdoors on 05. Oct, 2009 | 17 Comments
Between working, preparing for another winter, sleeping, eating and cleaning (ahem, yes, I do clean. Sometimes.) there are very few hours left in the day.
So when I do have free time, I make sure that I’m doing something productive or that brings me joy.
Lately, our spare time has been spent cutting, hauling, splitting and stacking [...]
Firewood Consumption
Posted by Laura-Jane - Whimfield in House, Outdoors on 26. Feb, 2009 | 14 Comments
As the temperatures dropped and winter started to set in this year, we were a little nervous for three reasons:
1. Insulation – We’d never been through a winter trying to heat this house before. We’d taken our house from 0% insulated to 100% insulated, but the only way we were going to find out whether [...]
Wood Heat: A Girl and Boy’s Best Friend
Posted by Laura-Jane - Whimfield in House, Outdoors on 28. Oct, 2008 | 19 Comments
If you’ve been following our tribulations, you’ll know that the sighting of a wood-stove on our property is a good thing.
Yes, the long-awaited for wood-stove has arrived!
Once we received the call that our wood-stove had arrived at the dealership, we immediately dropped everything and drove to pick it up. It was almost a three-hour drive [...]