AFL, I, too, saved a bunch of pumpkins for the girls. I went to bring one into the basement to thaw and every dad gummed one of them have been chewed into and every seed eaten! I'm thinking red squirrels. I'm going to build a hardware cloth cage, next year!
Oh ,that would frustrate me so much! After you carefully saved them for your girls! I'm sorry.
I think that Lala can have her frigid temps back
We are currently 13F (-10C) but the wind chill is the negatives. Tonight suppose to get down under 0F (-17C) I want to go back home it was 76 with the wood stove going.......I need to see if I can convince my Mom to go throw some wood on during the day for me so it stays warm. My cats love the temps...they are lay in front of the wood stove
I don't know if the hens will venture out or not. If they get hungry I am sure they will.
I think we're about like that right now too, except we got several inches of snow last night. We don't get snow all that often, so my girls are hiding out inside the coop!
One of the things I love, love, love about having a masonry heater is that they only take one or two fires a day. You don't ever add wood in between fires - you stack the firebox full, have a roaring fire, let it burn all the way down (only open the door once or twice near the end to push the pile to the center if you want, but you don't have to do that), and enjoy the radiant heat until the next fire 12 or so hours later. It keeps the house at a pretty constant temp. You regulate the heat by how much wood you put in for each fire. You don't have to be home during the fire if you have places to go (or at night you can just go to bed) - you can just get it going and leave it alone.
Does your husband do the stacking and splitting? If I had someone to do that for me, I'd totally only do wood.. but with everything else on my plate, it's too much. It is the best feeling to have wood heat though, I agree with you there.
Yes, I have that! It does take a lot of work, so as we get older, we'll probably end up buying pre-chopped & split wood, and then eventually we'll just rely on our heat pump. I
really don't like forced air, though, so I'm hoping that's a long time from now!
18 isn't too bad. Chilly, but okay. Especially with how cold it was outside. If we started a fire in the evening last winter, it was around 14-15 in the morning every day. So cold!
What I like about the heat pumps is I don't dred getting out from under the covers in the morning lol.
It was 21 in our bedroom. We have a space heater going on in there.
That can't be F, right? You're talking 18C in your house? Otherwise I can't see how you'd have running water! Or pumping blood (I would freeze solid if I had to live in those temps in F)!
18C is about what our bedroom is at (on the second floor, so the masonry heater, which is on the first floor, doesn't heat it - we have electric cove heaters in the upstairs rooms and basement).
