yep, looks like fall

My tan skin has faded back to white already, and Lewis' back is sore from stacking firewood every day since we've been back from vacation. Fall has always been my favorite season. I love the coziness of oversized wool sweaters, hot cocoa and warm fires. Today it was just above freezing when I took Sophie and Tilly for our morning walk. The leaves on the ground were covered with frost, and the town was dead quiet. It was really beautiful. Still, fall has lost a lot of its appeal since we moved here. I find myself longing for spring as soon as summer ends.

Lately, we've been scrambling to get enough firewood to make it through the winter. It should be a spring/summer chore, but we end up having a hard time finding wood that can be delivered to our house. We've also learned the hard way that it pays to get good wood... in other words, no pine. We got 5 cubic meters of "leaf wood" (birch, oak, beech) from a guy in the neighboring town, who delivered it by tractor. Unfortunately, it poured cats and dogs that day, so the wood was drenched when he dropped it off. It then sat for three weeks in our garage like a pile of wet clothes while we were on vacation and became a pretty moldy pile of wood.

Luckily we found a forestry student selling a bunch of leaf wood this week and bought another 8 cubic meters. The woodburning stove has been going nonstop ever since. And Lewis is STILL trying to stack it all.

Oh, and our most exciting update of the season is that we had three little trick-or-treaters for Halloween. That's three more than last year. Sophie didn't have a costume this year, but she's been looking like our little wookiee in her winter outfit.

Comments

[Hillary]

You'll have to give us an idea of how much you pay for firewood! We are getting our fireplace fixed, and even though we have an unlimited supply of chopped firewood at our summer house, I have a feeling sometimes we might like to have some delivered.

I love Fall too, and I can't wait to get the fireplace fixed. Going to be so cozy!!

[ginny]

Good wood like björk runs about 350kr/m3. "Blandved" can be found for much less, but it makes the house smoky and burns too fast. Now we just need to find a baby gate for the stove since Sophie will be crawling soon.