Pretending To Be Young To End The Year

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EACH OF YOU

We've made it another year and now it's time to see what life has in store for us in 2011 - I can hardly wait to find out.

And what do a couple of old retired guys do on a 43* winter day to end the year – why split wood of course. In our younger days, this could have been a one person job and the entire pile would surely have been split in a day by two young bucks.  Actually, in my younger days I would have split it with a wedge and maul, just for the excercise (which I still should be doing).  My buddy, Joe, still does - which is why he's in much better shape.  But, this day, us old guys could only work about 2 ½ hours and we got almost half the pile. This is what’s left (still about 60% of it), including the tree limb that fell on it.  The big ones are about 30" across.

It’s really nice to have a neighbor who farms, burns wood in his fireplace, and has the right equipment - it's amazing how this thing can handle these big logs.

This is my half of our effort, which now needs to be hauled to the woodpile and stacked - the pile is about 8' long.

The oak has been laying for over a year and has gotten corky around the outside, but it’s so big, lots of good firewood remains.  It felt pretty good to get out and do some pretty serious manual labor and, surpisingly, I wasn't in pain the next day - except from the margarita's we had when we got done - again, pretending to be young.

We went from cold and snowy for Christmas to 60* and sunny on New Years Eve - made me want to plow and plant my garden.


Bev and I hope the coming year is your best ever and thanks for taking the time to stop by Almost Heaven South - I don't know if I'll make 365 posts again in 2011, unless I can find some new material - perhaps I'll take up sky diving or underwater basket weaving.

Larry