Winter's Approach
Snow gently powdering the mountaintops; leaves falling to their new home; cold winds approaching from the north. All signs of winter fast approaching in the mountains.
While winter can be cold it is also one of my favorite times of the year. Outdoor activities are brought inside, family gathered in the living room while cold winds and snow howl outside. We have a woodstove which heats our house and there is nothing like a woodstove heat. It keeps the house so nice and toasty. I still have to split one more cord of wood to complete our stash for the winter. We get our wood from the surrounding forest, taking already down trees or trees dead from past fires. We usually have a nice mix of douglas fir and lodgepole, both which burn nicely. Our house is so well insulated the stove can easily make the house a sauna so the baffles are usually only cracked so the fire is more smoldering than actually burning flames. This also makes the wood let off a even and long-lasting heat. Did I mention that wood heat is also the cheapest of every source of heat which suits us just fine.
Rain has started falling, snow at the higher elevations. Always a welcome cleaning by mother nature. Looking forward to some snowboarding on our own little private mountain, Mt. Shasta. Great little ski area with awesome snow, and only 20 mins away. I just finished roto-tilling the garden in for the winter for that great soil next year. Flocks of ducks have been singing overhead the house, heading to warmer places for the winter. The deer can be seen more around town, slipping down to lower elevations for their food.
Been following the recovery of a bear injured in a fire this summer in one of our local forests. He has been recovering nicely and shold be returned shortly to where he was found. The site you can check him out at, including a web-cam, is http://www.ltwc.org/ and you'll see the box with his blog, web-cam,etc.
While winter can be cold it is also one of my favorite times of the year. Outdoor activities are brought inside, family gathered in the living room while cold winds and snow howl outside. We have a woodstove which heats our house and there is nothing like a woodstove heat. It keeps the house so nice and toasty. I still have to split one more cord of wood to complete our stash for the winter. We get our wood from the surrounding forest, taking already down trees or trees dead from past fires. We usually have a nice mix of douglas fir and lodgepole, both which burn nicely. Our house is so well insulated the stove can easily make the house a sauna so the baffles are usually only cracked so the fire is more smoldering than actually burning flames. This also makes the wood let off a even and long-lasting heat. Did I mention that wood heat is also the cheapest of every source of heat which suits us just fine.
Rain has started falling, snow at the higher elevations. Always a welcome cleaning by mother nature. Looking forward to some snowboarding on our own little private mountain, Mt. Shasta. Great little ski area with awesome snow, and only 20 mins away. I just finished roto-tilling the garden in for the winter for that great soil next year. Flocks of ducks have been singing overhead the house, heading to warmer places for the winter. The deer can be seen more around town, slipping down to lower elevations for their food.
Been following the recovery of a bear injured in a fire this summer in one of our local forests. He has been recovering nicely and shold be returned shortly to where he was found. The site you can check him out at, including a web-cam, is http://www.ltwc.org/ and you'll see the box with his blog, web-cam,etc.
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