Firewood

At first I was hoping to be able to get my firewood locally, and it SEEMED as if I had found someone who would be able to accommodate me. Unfortunately that never panned out, so I ended up finding a business on Craigslist that would deliver to this far corner of Cibola County.

After weighing the merits and costs of the different types of wood available here (pine, juniper, pinon, elm, and oak) I ended up buying 4 cords of Ponderosa Pine, which I had dumped near the compost station.

We decided to stack the wood around the perimeter of the hog wire fence that keeps the neighbors cow out of the straw bales. The hog wire has never been one of the more aesthetically pleasing parts of the view from our front porch.

My tiny Morso stove which we got to heat our tiny home only has a 7x7 opening to the firebox, so I am having to split some of the wood to make it practical to use. There is some pleasure to be gained from whacking things with a splitting maul, but the muscles are ones I don't normally use.

I split and stacked about 1/3 a cord on the front porch; all ready for winter.