Thursday, October 25, 2012

Earning Their Keep

We moved into a new house about a year ago.  As inspections were being done, we realized that there was no furnace.  The only sources of heat for the house are 2 wood stoves and a fireplace!  Well, that’s not exactly  true. The house does have radiant heat.  IN THE CEILINGS!  Doesn’t heat rise??  The only thing that benefits from that is the top of Ray’s head!

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To heat the house for the winter we need a little bit of firewood……

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OK, A LOT of firewood!

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2 cords to be exact.  Last year when I ordered the firewood I had NO IDEA how much a cord of wood was.  I dump truck showed up and FILLED our driveway with wood.

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The kids were so excited to see all the firewood after school.  They were such hard workers.  They stacked wood for 3 hours straight!!  (slave labor, I know!) We paid them well via large brownie sundaes with homemade chocolate fudge. 

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Hazel supervised from her throne

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The wood pile after over a solid hour of work.

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Hey Ray, how much wood can a wood chuck chuck……

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