In June, We Think of December

Our beautiful green spring June day began with stacking wood.

Knowing the cold will return, this is the time we get our wood to feed the two stoves and one furnace that heat our Vermont home all the cold months of the year.

The truth is, it was cold enough today to have a small fire in our parlor stove!

Here's proof that I help with stacking close to 10 cords of wood drying for future days. We're told that people who heat with wood are, "three times warmed: once when the wood is cut, once when it is stacked, and once when sitting by the fire." Today was one such warming. (All of today's wood is stacked, will stack two more cords tomorrow....)