Saturday, Jan. 27 - The weather was the right mix and we were able to burn both the piles of trash trees and brush that I had built up over the last six months. It was quite a sight to light them up. I'd been afraid that they'd be wet inside and not burn well but my fears were ill founded and they went up nicely. Many friends came by to visit and toss a log on the fire for us. I'd only planned on burning one pile, but the burn rate was so fast that we ended up doing them both. The bed of coals lasted well past 10PM. That's when they had all burned down past the dangerous stage and I left to go home. Many thanks to Andy, Steven, Brittany, Steven's dad, Dustin, Calvin and Charles who came and helped especially. I'll post some pix as soon as I can.
We also managed to finish pulling the paneling and all the furring off of the living room walls. Most of it is burned, we added it to the fire. Lots of plaster patching to do, but that will come. We've a lot of work to do there, but it's nice to have it one notch farther along.
As for the barn floor, it needs to have the insulation laid down on it, then the wire, then the tubing. They hit a seam of rock while digging and brought in an air compressor to jack hammer the rock. Unfortunately they dumped the rock on my garden spot, but I'll be able to remove that to it's proper place with the backhoe I plan to rent at some point. I'll be doing the insulation this next weekend, if all goes well. After that will come the tubing and then they can pour.
I also need to get at the apple trees and do some pruning next weekend. This is the time of year for it (unless it's absolutely freezing wind chills then, which is unfortunately the forecast).
As the winter sun starts it's climb higher in the sky, the days get colder, so we'll see how it works out, but winter has definitely arrived here! Brrr! :)
Stay warm,
Doug
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