Alaskan Digest: Slice of Alaskan life

We have a lot of cut wood, but had no stove to burn it in until recently. Now that we have a great wood stove, we spend our weekends digging through an old pile of logs from when my husband cleared our property before he built our log home. He was in "gotta clear these trees to build the house" mode instead of "gotta cut wood for the wood stove" mode, so some of the logs (actually MOST of the logs) need to be cut down and split. It keeps us busy on the weekends, gathering, cutting, and splitting enough wood to get us through another week. Here are some scenes from today, when the temperature outside was about -5. I actually worked up a sweat!


Me in my wood gathering clothes. My mukluks (Alaskan boots) keep my feet toasty warm - they're rated to -40!


We have a long black sled that I tow with a rope to the pile and load it up




Hauling the wood to our porch





Once on the porch, my husband takes over, and I go back to the pile to get more


My husband doing his thing


No, my hair is not white - it freezes and that is frost on my hair!

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