Tag: Firewood

Winter finally arrives at the homestead with temperatures in the twenties and a few inches of snow. More cold is expected.

There is always some outside work waiting to be done. Why not do it when the weather is warm and the sun is shining?

An unexpected warm spell presented the perfect opportunity to get some work done on the chicken coop and beehives.

Fall is segueing into winter a few degrees at time. We've moved from chilly nights, to frost, to killing frost and now snow.

A gasoline shortage means you can't drive, but a natural gas shortage means people might freeze to death. Do you have a back up heat source?

Anything that you can buy now and keep for a couple years will help you resist the undertow of inflation as rising prices threaten to drag you under.

The weather interferes with our plans, but work progresses on the homestead as we continue to ready for our chicks and bees to be delivered.

The winter is almost over and we have not used our wood stove for a week, but that doesn't stop the firewood deliveries.

Despite the recent warm weather, we find that winter is not over as temperatures turn colder and fog heralds the arrival of rain and snow.

Stuff never breaks when its convenient. That's why a good prepper can improvise and McGyver his way back into business when something fails on the homstead.