Crisp Blue Skies

It was such a crisp blue sky full of stark white clouds this morning, I just had to take a picture.
It's a cool 64 degrees outside, here at 2:00.
I was chilly even sitting in the sunshine with my cup of coffee at noon (wearing a coat, I might add).
I decided now, enough of that...time for a fire.

Here is what is left of our Liquidambar tree.
We are ready for this winter and will not need to buy wood this fall.
(Our yearly wood stacking day)

My husband hired a man who came with two wood splitters, one Saturday morning, along with his father and two daughters. Those four, my husband, and two of our boys, working all together, spent five hours to achieve this woodpile.

Looking at this pile, knowing how much work went into it, makes me appreciate what we pay for this amount of wood each year.

It's a little strange to think that this was our big tree.

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