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Windfall Profit.

15-Dec-12

http://neilfeather.com/wp-json/oembed/1.0/embed?url=http://neilfeather.com/fwp_portfolio/1164/ Snow is predicted for tonight, so I worked overtime filling up my truck – which I can still drive to the cabin over the snowless ground – with firewood from a more distant part of my property.  The wood is from one of the trees downed by Hurricane Sandy.  It’s beautiful wood, fresh green maple. […]

Woodchopping in Winter.

31-Dec-09

Raduzhny I highly recommend saving as much woodsplitting as possible for cold days.  First of all, it is fabulously warming exercise – “wood warms twice” is the Thoreau saying – and second, the frost makes the wood brittle.  It’s like chopping glass – it always splits when struck, and has none of the elasticity and suppleness […]