Lumberjack TLE.....

 7:19 am - Friday - January 17th - TWW - 29° F, humidity 54%, wind 5 mph out of the south.....crystal clear, blue, sunny skies today with a forecast high of 53° F.  On this date in 2017 my youngest daughter, Sharon, was married to Rod.....love this picture of our five children.....

.....left to right: Meredith, Kate, Sharon, Chris and Tim.

It has been a while since TLE and I have cut, or split wood and Thursday morning seemed like the perfect time to refill the wood box on the deck, and resupply our wood pile at the 'sunset deck' firepit.  As you will recall we had cut up a lot of dry wood a couple weeks ago, and piled it next to the house to be cut into smaller length pieces so we could then split it...

.....TLE likes to operate the hydraulic wood splitter, and she does a great job!  We split all the wood that would fit in the wood splitter, then I fired up the 16" Stihl chainsaw to cut the rest of of the logs into shorter versions of themselves, followed by more splitting.

After that we took time to refill our fresh water tank from our IBC water tote.  We were down to 65 gallons out of 150, which is really plenty of water for another couple of days, but the lower the water level gets the longer it takes to refill, so we choose to refill it when it gets below 80 gallons.  We were still filling the tank when Charles and Phyllis arrived for another 3 day sojourn here at TWW.

With them they brought a half dozen boxes full of stuff we had ordered off eBay and Amazon.  I've taken to using eBay more often as their sellers use USPS more often than not, which makes it easier to get things delivered to our PO Box in Seligman.  Amazon seller use UPS Post, not USPS, for addresses utilizing a PO Box, and about half the time there is a delivery issue.  The most recent was that UPS said 'I' refused delivery, and returned the package to Amazon.  The post office does not refuse deliveries on my behalf, and I certainly did not refuse delivery....they just put a note in my PO Box that I have a package.  I think some at the Kingman, AZ UPS depot didn't want to deliver a small package (it was a 6" x 6" wall calendar) all the way to Seligman (an hour and a half drive) so they returned it using the excuse I had refused delivery.  The other issue with Amazon, is that many of their sellers will not ship anything to a PO Box....why I don't know.  Well, their loss is eBay's gain, right?

Anyway, we received the solar panel racks upon which I will mount the two 325 watt panels we own so they no longer have to sit on tables, and be leaned against the cedar shed, and the back of Phyllis' Newell, a small, 6" , cordless, handheld chainsaw, a new ShurFlo water pump, the new Victron charger controller, and a couple of things for TLE.

We didn't start splitting wood until almost 11 am as it was too cold to do anything outside until then, so by the time I opened all the boxes, and played around with the cordless chainsaw it was getting close to dinner time.  With all the deliveries I'll be busy with projects for the near future.

We had a subtle sunset, but no fire....very, very cold at 5:46 pm.  Before you know it the sun will be setting after 6 pm again.  Time marches on....

Thanks for stopping by!