Preparing for 2nd Winter

We are going to put in the driveway and the foundations for the new house this Autumn, all going well. The house itself will be built in the Spring next year as soon as the snow has cleared enough for the builders to start. In the mean time, we will spend another Winter in the Cottage so we bought another load of wood for the stove. We got 3 chords this time, plus we had about 1 chord left over, and I cut a nice sturdy chopping block for splitting logs from a maple that I felled . It took about 3 hours to stack the wood at the front of the cottage and all around the inside of the gallery. Wood chopping and stacking is good exercise and pretty rewarding in a prmitive kind of way.

The trees are now starting to change colour pretty fast, this is a great season as the bugs are pretty much gone, it's not too hot, and the trees look amazing. I will post more pictures in a few weeks when the trees look their best.