One fire a day weather...
68[sup]o[/sup] in the house this morning. I poured some coffee and went down to toss a bit of wood in the firebox... and it was dead cold. Then it dawned on me... 24-hours since the last loading, and that was just a medium size load to boot. The "experts" say we'll see 50[sup]o[/sup] today (maybe some rain to get rid of more snow), but it won't last... looking at cloudy, cooler weather first part of the week, although warming back up during mid-week. If the sun shines I'll be starting a fire every morning, if it's cloudy I'll likely need a small one in the evening also. Couple more weeks and it'll be every second or third day... and a week or two after that... done!!
It appears I misjudged by a full cord last fall when I filled the storage room in the basement. I've been bringing in small loads... like two-three days worth at a time, and I'm creeping up on a full cord. If March would've been "normal" I'd have hit it pretty darn close... probably would just now be starting to move small loads in.
Time to start thinking about moving the "stovace" out and the DAKA furnace in. Need to build back-draft dampers, plenum extension, cold air return/filter box, and whatnot. Should be plenty of rainy, wet weekends to work on that coming up I'm sure. I suppose there ain't any great hurry to get it done... but... I'm gonna' need something to post about 'cause I can't whine about weather anymore!
68[sup]o[/sup] in the house this morning. I poured some coffee and went down to toss a bit of wood in the firebox... and it was dead cold. Then it dawned on me... 24-hours since the last loading, and that was just a medium size load to boot. The "experts" say we'll see 50[sup]o[/sup] today (maybe some rain to get rid of more snow), but it won't last... looking at cloudy, cooler weather first part of the week, although warming back up during mid-week. If the sun shines I'll be starting a fire every morning, if it's cloudy I'll likely need a small one in the evening also. Couple more weeks and it'll be every second or third day... and a week or two after that... done!!
It appears I misjudged by a full cord last fall when I filled the storage room in the basement. I've been bringing in small loads... like two-three days worth at a time, and I'm creeping up on a full cord. If March would've been "normal" I'd have hit it pretty darn close... probably would just now be starting to move small loads in.
Time to start thinking about moving the "stovace" out and the DAKA furnace in. Need to build back-draft dampers, plenum extension, cold air return/filter box, and whatnot. Should be plenty of rainy, wet weekends to work on that coming up I'm sure. I suppose there ain't any great hurry to get it done... but... I'm gonna' need something to post about 'cause I can't whine about weather anymore!
