The majority of you who read our blog are probably getting ready for summer. This past winter has been long and you are ready for warmer temps and outdoor activities.
Am I right? Well, June through Sept. are winter months here in Temuco. There will be no 4th of July outdoor picnics or parades this year. During the last few weeks, we have been getting ready for winter by stocking up on DRY wood.
Wood is sold by the square meter. It's key to buy the wood early in the Fall to ensure that it is dry, thus
burning hotter and more efficiently. Temuco is known for it's cold wet winter months. It doesn't snow really, it only
rains and rains and rains.
The process goes as follows: we call "the wood guy" on the phone and tell him how much wood we need. They show up later that day (or the next morning) with a truck load of wood. Several guys unload the wood and stack it for us in our covered storage area at the end of our driveway. There are
7.5 square meters in the truck.
The wood is then covered with a tarp to make sure rain doesn't get the load wet. We buy the wood cut, but some of the pieces are still too big for our wood stove, so periodically I split some of the wood.
Jordan, Ben, & Kaylee help by hauling and stacking a week's worth of wood just outside our backdoor. We try to do all of this on days when it is not raining.
Above: Our wood stove. It has done a good job keeping the main portion of our house warm during these Fall months. We will see how it does when the winter months come. This morning we woke up to an outside temp of
37 degrees. The other morning, Jordan said something funny. Since the stove burns out over night while we are sleeping, we need to start the fire again in the mornings. Well, at breakfast, Jordan said, "
Daddy, could you turn up the furnace?". A wood stove is NOT a furnace and it definitely takes
more time and care to keep the house at a livable temperature.
Wood is sold by the square meter. It's key to buy the wood early in the Fall to ensure that it is dry, thus burning hotter and more efficiently. Temuco is known for it's cold wet winter months. It doesn't snow really, it only rains and rains and rains.
The process goes as follows: we call "the wood guy" on the phone and tell him how much wood we need. They show up later that day (or the next morning) with a truck load of wood. Several guys unload the wood and stack it for us in our covered storage area at the end of our driveway. There are 7.5 square meters in the truck.
The wood is then covered with a tarp to make sure rain doesn't get the load wet. We buy the wood cut, but some of the pieces are still too big for our wood stove, so periodically I split some of the wood. Jordan, Ben, & Kaylee help by hauling and stacking a week's worth of wood just outside our backdoor. We try to do all of this on days when it is not raining.
Above: Our wood stove. It has done a good job keeping the main portion of our house warm during these Fall months. We will see how it does when the winter months come. This morning we woke up to an outside temp of 37 degrees. The other morning, Jordan said something funny. Since the stove burns out over night while we are sleeping, we need to start the fire again in the mornings. Well, at breakfast, Jordan said, "Daddy, could you turn up the furnace?". A wood stove is NOT a furnace and it definitely takes more time and care to keep the house at a livable temperature.
2 comments:
Wow! Winter is hard to imagine right now. I'm enjoying Spring and can't wait for Summer! :)
I bet this is the first time in your life you emerge from a stinging winter into a wood-burning second winter. Not quite a second breakfast. Considering we touched near 100* last week, I envy (in a spiritual aense) you your second winter!
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