0103

This morning dawns bright, fair, & warm. Right away I begin chopping more wood, finally cutting and storing the last of the old oak. Then I start felling a couple more trees east of the strawberries, and cutting them up. Up to 60° by now, and I'm in a T-shirt, when Lenore drives up with her friend Brenda. Time for a break, anyway, so I show them around a bit.

I don't need a real hot fire tonight, so I try burning some of the pine that I took from the big down tree west of the driveway. It doesn't burn well by itself; the old oak is much better.