It's time to start preparing for winter up here in North Vermont. While we're not quite yet into fall, I prefer to get my prep done early so I can enjoy some free time in the woods during my favorite fall season.
This week (well actually takes me 2-3 weekends) we are stacking firewood into the woodshed. This is 3 full cords of "green" wood I had delivered. Here in the U.S. a Full Cord of wood is 4ft high x 4ft deep x 8ft long. This will get stacked into the woodshed, where we already have half full of "seasoned" wood from last year. While I had visions of cutting and filling it all myself for free, time constraints and my apparently limited physical capacity did not allow. Yes, I was quite surprised I couldn't just cut, split, and stack like I could 40 years ago... (well maybe not surprised and just disappointed, lol).
Here we are about halfway through the pile. Still a couple rows to go.
It seems early, hard to believe we've just crossed our first year in the new house. Days are still in the low 80's (26-28C), nights in the low 50's (10-12C) but some of the trees are already dropping their leaves, and we are just starting to see some color change on a few. The Aspen's leaves are turning yellow and falling, the apple trees are getting ripe and losing leaves, but we are still over a month away from when all the spectacular color changes typically occur in early October. Thinking it may be an early, long, and cold winter ahead.
A few of the smaller plants changing, and I thought very strange in the background how that maple tree has just one branch that has gone totally red, yet rest is still all green.
And then let's not forget the Apples, many of them soon to be ripe and ready for Apple pies! We are already seeing more deer in the evenings, and on the trailcams out under the trees, picking up the early apple falls.
Next week we are having the backup generator finally connected. It should be interesting to see how that goes. Then it's just a few more mowings of the grass.
Hello @ksteem
That sure is a lot of wood, you'll definitely be ready for a winter that's long if you are well prepped and stacked like this. How much snow on average do you get?
I've actually just finished raking leaves now myself down the driveway and it seems that many of the deciduous trees are now bare after the storm we had a few nights back.
The trees are beautiful when they change over and who can say no to apple pie?? Hmmm with ice cream. Yummy
Vermont gets more snow each year than any other state. Average is 54 days of snow each year and average of 89 inches for the year. In 2018-2019 we actually saw 201 inches of snow for the year.. It's fairly common to see 12-24 inches in a single day/storm cycle, although many are smaller amounts of 4-6 inches. Winter doesn't officially start until November, but it's not unusual to receive the first light snows before Halloween. Heaviest snow month is usually in March.
89 inches? That's a lot for an average. I don't know if I would be able to handle that much cold for that long, but I can totally understand your need for that much wood now.
How often do you get properly snowed in?
That's for the year, not an individual storm... although it's not unusual to see "25 inch in a single storm. I think the largest individual single storm/day for the state was about 36". They are used to it here and actually very good about getting the plows out early and often on the roads. We've only been here a year. Last winter the snow in the yard built up to almost waist high, but not "snowed in" for more than a few hours waiting on the plows.. Although definitely AWD country.. there is often still snow on the roads a week after a storm.
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I am more excited about Autumn than winter lol..at least we don't need to stack woods here . the heater would be fine. 😊..
Same here. Love the Fall season. Up here backup heat method definitely needed. Major problems if you lose power for 3-4 days or more when it's -30 or -40 and no backup heat. We've got propane furnace, the wood burning stove, and large electric space heater (mainly for garage, but other backup if needed.)
Oh, that sucks. Fortunately, we never experienced it here in Hong Kong. Unless a building is under repair.
Winter is coming in your place that means we will be having cold weather here in my country too🙂.
No snow but at least not hot like even the air from electric fan is burning😂. I can sleep better at night.
Oh apples, how I wish that grows in our country too!
Ugh, a lot of firewoods! 😎
Ugh now and Ahhh, later!
😮 Wow.... Truth be told this is the Best way to prepare for winter
We are spending some time in the mountains of New Hampshire right now and it’s pretty wild to see the difference it is up here versus a bit further south where we live. The days are nice but have a fair bit of clouds and rain of late. The nights are remarkably cool, certainly getting into the 50’s. We have been enjoying the fluctuations that’s for sure and it’s one of the things where you know fall and winter are around the corner. You can’t quite smell it in the air yet but it’s good to start getting prepared now!
Nice wood pile you’ve got there for sure. Northeast Vermont certainly gets it’s fair share of bitter cold temps and lots of snow! Will you be doing any deer hunting? Would be nice to get something in the fall!
Usually I was engaged in harvesting firewood in March. Cut, split, put in a woodpile and let the firewood dry over the summer.
I didn't harvest firewood this year. I have a gas boiler in my house now.
We have propane gas central furnace as well. Important up here to have backup heat source if needed, and we generally just prefer the way the wood stove heats the house, nice and toasty downstairs where we hang, and cooler, yet comfy upstairs.
You've gat a lot of fire wood that's cool