Welcome to 2008!! We've had a pseudo hiatus since the masonry heater guys were here, but it involved the holidays and the requisite cleaning and cooking and shopping, oh my. Plus several bouts of illness for both of us. In lieu of action, I thought I would share some pics of preparation that happened what seems like eons ago. Out wood has been stacked and drying for several years now, so it should be ready as all get out to be slapped in a wall in a few months. Some of the wood Dan cut from a stand of red pine and hemlock down the hill and we then stripped the bark and set it up to dry. Some of it we bought from a defunct log cabin building business by Bloomer, already stripped. Some of it had been sitting out uncovered for some time and has deteriorated into fuel for the test firings on the masonry heater when it is bricked over, but some of it was covered and has aged into nice wood for our project.
