Can't you see I'm trying to sleep?

I'm just trying to sleep in the window because I have the farts really bad.
What are you looking at, Shorty?
Could you bring me something to eat?
Oh, Oh. Watch out. Fire in the hole. You might want to go into another room.
Can't a cat get a little privacy?

This is where some of this year's wood came from. There was a big Apple tree in front of the house and Kaye got mad one day and pulled it down.

Is it enough?

Well, we have our wood stacked inside for the winter. This first area is in the garage. I measure about 97" X 63". That makes, by my calculation, about 1.3 face cords (plus some unstackable chunkwood on the floor). It is mostly Apple with some Ash.
And one cat that eats about 2 cords of catfood a week.
Next is the woodshop. I figure that this is about 3 cords. Ash, Hard Maple, and Cherry. Ignore the junk pile.
Another shot of the woodshop load.
In the basement, we have this hall. It is about 25' long and about 10' wide. That is a walk-in freezer with the white door. We don't use it. I figure we have about 7 cords down there. It is all Cherry, Hard Maple, Apple, and Ash. All of the wood has been bug bombed (so that we can store it inside without dealing with all of the spiders and stuff). There is a dehumidifier running in the basement storage area. That wood is really, really dry.
We have historically burned from about 8 to 10 cords per winter, depending upon how long the cold lasts and how cold it gets. We have a little more wood this time. On the other hand, we are having a larger woodstove installed right now. It is more efficient than the one we have now. Because it is bigger, I would think it would eat more wood. On the other hand, because it is so much more efficient, We'll have it choked off most of the time. The old stove ran with its air inlet damper wide open all of the time so that we could maximize its heat output. The bottom line is; I don't know how much wood this new stove will eat compared to the old one. I guess we'll see.

Grillin and Chillin

I like my meat.
I still like my meat.
Just in case you were wondering; I still like my meat.

Recent good times

Here's Armand on the hunt and Ocee after her dental visit.

Bucket Farmers II

This is a pepper plant in a small bucket on the deck. That pot next to it is my money tree. Put that one in the failled experiment category.
This in one on the rail of the deck. Not enough pot to support a bell pepper plant, evidently.
These are the buckets on the ground. This is my cherry tomato plant. It is in a bucket also. I never got around to tieing it to the cage, so it has kind of spilled over. It's produces pretty well, though.
The tomato plant in an action video. And then the peppers doing their growing thing.

Pepper or Plastic?

The peppers have almost run their course. We still have a few to pick, but they are winding down. The temps are in the 40ºF range at night now.
Some of them are squatty.
Some have Daddy Longleg spiders on them.
Neat.
Another load. This one makes a good desktop image.