Can’t write much today — it is warm, sunny and the yard is dry. These are perfect conditions for restocking the inside the house and the porch firewood caches.
That means splitting wood to chunk and cooking wood size then wheelbarrowing it to the forward operating positions. When we get everything filled up, we have close to a month’s worth of dry wood in close proximity to the two wood burners we use — the cookstove in the kitchen and the space heater in the basement.
This gives us a buffer but anytime during the month as the stock is depleted and the conditions are favorable, it’s a choppin’ I shall go.
The fun part about this go around is that for the last couple of years due to my medical issues I’ve had to do this through surrogates, but now I am doing it myself. I have to take a lot of minibreaks so production is slow, but I have rallied to the point where over a couple of hours I can get a true hour’s work in, and am able to keep at it for hours during a single day. Thus, over a couple of days, I can get a short day’s real work done.
This is the second day and rain is predicted for tomorrow morning so off I go. Here, without even the vaguest attempt at a segue, is a quote about firewood:
“O most fortunate ones, do not lament. You will see Krsna again very soon. He is present in the hearts of all living beings, just as fire lies dormant in wood.”
SB 10.46.36
