Winter is coming
It’s time to get ready for winter. Tidy the garden, cut the grass (if the rain permits) and get the wood pile ready for the cold weather.
We had 7 Leylandii trees cut down next to our kitchen garden and the neighbour kindly let us have the logs. Many hours of Mark cutting the trunks into bite sized chunks and we had an enormous log pile. The summer rolled on and sap and resin oozed out of the cut ends – eventually to sublimate into water vapour and off-gassing of the resin.
We took a few days to split these into logs suitable for the fire and I do believe that the logs are now ready for burning, having lain fallow in the summer heat and drought for the past 6 months.
Some large branches still remain unsplit – another day. The next job is to cart them up for storage for a final drying and then we will be toasty warm all winter
