A Makeshift Woodshed

March 26th (Friday)

As I believe I have mentioned, the biggest, and really the only negative for us of Ron’s house is that he really doesn’t have a wood storage place.  We can keep a couple of small stacks on the back deck, but that is it.  So, we extended a tarp out from the back roof down to the bank and created a much larger protected area.  Then to keep the wood up off of the wet ground we laid down two pallets making a 4’ x 8’ area.  We used two more pallets upright on one corner so as to create a corner with walls; we now have much more wood storage.

Since it had been a month since we last brought wood over from our old house we took what started out as a dry day and moved two truckloads of firewood over to Ron's house.  We counted how many trips going down and up our stairs, with bins full of wood, that it took us in order to move a truckload, and it worked out to be 22 trips.  Since we have 27 stairs to get from the road down to our house and the wood storage that meant that we had to do a total of 594 steps down and 594 steps back up for each truckload.  Like I said, we moved two truckloads of wood, so that worked out to be a total of 1,188 steps.  Luckily, there were two of us and so we each only had to do 594 steps; 22 flights of stairs down with full bins of wood and back up with empty bins.  Needless to say it was a tiring day, especially since obviously we had had to first load the truck with the wood at our old house. 

Some of the firewood that we moved was the last of our yellow cedar that we had gathered last September.  This wood was already down at the lower woodshed at the old house so we had to put it into bins, and carry it around to the road.  We are now very well stocked for wood, so it will be interesting to see how long it last us.