Wood, wood and more wood

So far this week my work schedule hasn't changed much. Cut, collect, transport, split and stack wood for a few hours in the morning and when the temperature gets above freezing get some chinking done. As of this afternoon I have 95% of the chinking done, thanks to a little warm up in the weather. The only thing left is to fill in around the outside of the window casing with fiberglass insulation and cover it with perma-chink, about a half hour of work. I pretty happy that job is almost done, it was not much fun. But the cabin looks much more complete and I'm sure sealing it up will make a HUGE difference when it dips to 20 bellow and colder. As far as wood collection goes that will be a full time job now that the chinking is done. I want to be more than prepared when winter hits full bore.

We were have some pretty cool nights, around zero degrees, but the last few days have warmed up to about 45 to 50 degrees. The river, at our crossing point, was nearly frozen over all the way across a few days ago but the last couple days has caused a mini break-up. And now the river is open all the way across. I have a couple pics at the river crossing from yesterday showing some of the river frozen over and about a 1/3 of it open in the middle. The other pic is the raft strung up by a cable attached to a winch to keep it from getting swept downstream if the river floods in the spring.