I am not married so I do most of it myself. We get logs dropped at my house then between my best friend & I we cut, split it, then stack it. My mom helps to stack when she can.
Then in September I toss about 10-12 cords into the garage to stack again. I like dry fire wood for the winter. When I get my dream house I am building a lean to onto the house where the wood can be stacked once & have doors into house so its accessible without going outside
But around here you can get people to drop off cut & split wood & they would probably stack it for a price as well. But around here thats between $70 & $80 a cord. I spend about $200 for between 20-25 cords of wood when we are done. Usually enough left for the following year & we heat 2 houses with the wood.
While its nice of you to share you can have it backOn the National news this morning they were in Minneapolis,MN showing how a raw egg froze in 3 seconds outside. I guess they were running out of news lol I know I rather be inside the outside seeing if an egg freezes. I already know they do
When you design your dream house, you should consider building a masonry heater in it. I bet you would love it! Here's a good website to get you started learning about them:
http://www.mha-net.org/
Even if that's not what you want, I highly recommend building a "wood room" in your house so you don't have to go outside at all. We made a little 5' x 6' room off the living room to store stacks of wood in. I lined it with cement backerboard instead of drywall - walls, floor, ceiling - and caulked the seams with cement caulk. Then I put an exterior steel door on it between the wood room and the living room, all so bugs would stay in that room and not be able to get in the rest of the house. There is a door to the outside as well, so we load up the wood from the outside on a warmish day, and close up that door. Then we use the wood from the inside door. It's nice to have warmish dry wood to burn. I think it catches better and burns hotter.
On the other hand, we do have to refill the wood room several times a winter, so maybe your lean-to idea is better. I like the stacking once idea! I just did a wood room because my mom did one in her house, and it seemed so much better than trudging out in the snow every day to get more wood for the fire.
On the subject of eggs freezing, what happens if I don't gather the eggs before they freeze? Can I just bring them in the house, let them thaw, and use them as usual? Or are they pretty much wasted once they freeze (and I should feed them back to the chickens)?
she fed them a little while she was here and I made it home just as they started roosting so they ate some more. I'm headed out to put a bowl of water in the heated bowl to see if it freezes overnight. The bottom was warm to touch so I am thinking maybe because I had a big Corning wear container inside the bowl it couldn't keep the ff warm? If the water freezes I will try just pouring it in the dog bowl itself and see if that works. The frigid low temps are probably not helping the dog bowl lol 
