We donned our heavy jackets and headed out to get wood.
My husband kept telling me he had to get outside and do something, but it had been snowing for three days straight. He wanted to cut wood so we would have it for the fireplace. Ever since the price of heating fuel hit $7 a gallon, we had been using the fireplace as our sole source of heating. When we kept the doors open in the house, it worked wonderfully. We had a lot of old wood down because of storms over the last several years, so we didn’t need to buy wood. My husband said it was free fuel, and it didn’t use electricity, so we should use what we were offered. With it snowing as hard as it was, and being ten degrees below normal, we were using a lot of the wood. We had gone through twice as much as we thought we would, and we ended up with an empty wood bin. Unless it stops snowing soon, we wouldn’t have heat much longer. After three days of constant snow, it dawned bright and sunny one morning. We donned our heavy jackets and headed out to get wood. It took nearly all day, but we had enough wood in the woodshed and on the porch to last us the rest of the winter, even if we got snowed in. I don’t know what we would do without the fireplace, because the price of fuel was too much for us to afford. Not only did the fireplace keep our house warm and cozy, but it also gave us a night light when we got up in the middle of the night. No one complains when something has a double duty.
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