I 've been stung by the weather and not preparing well enough this fall. I usually stack a cord on the north side of the house by the basement door for when it gets too snowy or muddy out to get to the wood stacks. Between last year's mild winter where I didn't need it and getting a gator that can handle the soggy yard without rutting I decided to save my self the extra handling this year. Bad idea! We had 7 inches of snow with high winds saturday when I was out of town and my gatorload in the lower level garage is empty. Problem is the garage has 7 foot of concrete hard snow burying the entrance! I have a quad with a plow that will move it when i get a chance, but with negative temps and -20 windchill, I decided a few sled loads was good enough to get through to milder temps.
If I had to do it this way all the time I'd gladly pay the fuel man! lol. And then the kids were sad that I wouldn't pull them around on it after 3 loads and an hour of lugging. I told them it was too cold, but really I'm too old!