A year ago today, people were looking dismayed at their properties, seeing what damage the storm had wrought. Even here, where the damage was minimal, we had a bunch of trees come down across the driveway.

Today, we are splitting and stacking the last of that wood for winter use. We already have probably 4 cord of wood sitting here, between what we brought with us, what we brought in last fall, and what was already fallen on the land. I have another 3 cord coming in at some point. It was supposed to be this last week, but he didn’t get here. Probably the coming week or the week after.

A lot of the wood we have right now is overly-dry, bordering on not-good-for-burning-anymore, so we’ll definitely be using that up first. What we don’t manage to use this year, we will bury and create hügel mounds to plant into.