A Lot of Work

We were lucky that Richard's friend Fred stayed with us for about 10 days. The guys got a lot of work done, some of which I am not allowed to do anymore. In an earlier post I showed them splitting firewood, By the time they were done 2 1/2 - 3 cords of woods had been stacked in the woodshed. For those who are not sure what a "cord" of fire wood is here are the dimensions: 4 feet tall, 4 feet deep and 8 feet long. That's a lot of wood.

One of the projects they completed was to build a small wood holder for the chiminey on our back deck.



After a long day of work Richard built a fire in the chiminey and and we all relaxed on the back deck when I got home from work.



Three days after Fred left Richard got a call that he had gotten a job as a ship's Captain helping with the cleanup in the gulf. He will be gone a minimum of 30 days, possible as long as 6 months. So, he went to work making sure I would be okay for the winter if he was not back by the time the snow starts to fly.

We still had more logs which he and Fred had not split so while I was at work Richard split even more wood. One afternoon when I got home from work I changed by clothes and helped Richard "stack-in" the wood he had just split.

Usually we do what is called an open stack but this time Richard decided that we would just stack the wood and get as much as possible on the hearth. There is quite a pile on the Family room hearth.



Below is the hearth in our bedroom. What you do not see is all the wood stacked in the wood box which runs through the wall from behind the TV in the family room into the bedroom. That holds enough wood to keeps us going for probably 3-5 days depending on how long the fires burn.



As I get photos from his life in the the gulf I will try to post them here and give everyone updates on how he is doing. He called me last night to let me know that he is being moved to another motel and is getting a new room-mate who just happens to be from Oriental. NC where we keep our boat. It really is a small world.