Part of the Alaskan adventure is the winter prep. Last year since we didn't arrive until winter we had no chance to prepare. Barry was having to go to find cut down trees, load them up, bring them home, and chop wood, all in the freezing cold! It was miserable for him. This year to avoid all of that we decided to order wood. So this man comes to your house, brings wood, then dumps it in your yard, leaving you and to stack and chop it into smaller logs if you need them to be smaller. When you order the wood, you can choose how many "cords" you want and how you want it cut (halves or fourths). We choose halves because it is significantly cheaper this way. The day finally arrived and the man with wood called and said he was on his way. He pulled up to our back yard and...
DUMP! All over the yard! I decided to help with wood this time, since he did all the hard work in the winter and in the cold. I figured I could offer a helping hand in the summer when it was warm and secretly hoping I would be able to get some sun if I was outside! I would hand him pieces and he would chop them with an axe into smaller pieces so they would fit into our wood burning stove. (We use it for heat along with a regular electric heating system, not cooking ;)) Barry chopped all that wood by hand... Such hard work!
JUST KIDDING! He got through with about 20 logs and realized it was NO fun! We went and rented a wood splitter from the army base and split the rest of the wood that way. Who ever invented this machine was the bomb! It was fantastic! While he split the wood, I stacked the wood. We had a nice little system going. The whole time I was thinking "I think I am turning Alaskan... my daddy would be so proud... ME, stacking wood.... who would've thought!.. I sure I am glad I have gloves on!" We finished all the wood, took the machine back, and now were all set for winter this year.
Your mama is proud of you too....just remember those lessons on anything a boy can do....
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