Sunday, February 05, 2006

I'm a lumberjack

I had a great time the last two days gathering wood for the wood stove! I felt like a lumberjack. I hiked a few hundred yards with my big old lumberjack saw to a tree that had fallen down a few years ago. I took our cat Buffy with me. She likes to ride on my shoulder. The weather was about perfect--probably 15 degrees. I cut the tree up into 6 foot sections and drag the logs back to the house where I cut them up into 18 inch pieces. Then chop chop chop. Unfortunately, I discovered this was an elm tree. Elm trees are hard to chop.