Snowstorms

 While heating his house with wood, Leif's first and recent snowstorms, when log piles are key.

We recently took down 7 more big trees here, making several piles and clearing the front yard of trees too close to the house.

Four large Walnut and a Sycamore tree will dry out here with some given to artist woodworkers.

Other piles are dead Ash ready to split and burn.

Leif cooks outside on his vintage Weber all year.

18" of snow the winter we bought Old Farm & gutted the entire upstairs.

A Custom Dining Room Table

Leif's dining room table is made of rare Brazilian match booked petrified (submerged tree base used) Palographico wood, with a thick beveled top and straight legs. It was custom made for a tall family and we have cut it down a bit.

A Well Stacked Porch

This is the third time I have stacked our side porch for winter, to feed our large Jotul and smaller Morso woodstoves. Larger logs are stacked to the right, kindling is kept in the old wine barrel, ashes in the antique 13" wide copper bucket, and a hatchet on the hand carved "Kubbestol" is for splitting more kindling.

The broom is NYT's endorsed "Casabella Wayclean" wide angle, & huge pine cones are from CA.

The lights are antique brass English carriage lights electrified. Kubbestol is made by Finnish friend Benny, the brick steps by my father and planter & porch built by Bill. 

Happy New Year!

We celebrated New Year's Eve helping Bill load two more large/tall sculptures up and out of his basement studio, and into my vintage Volvo wagon which is cavernous for the cause!

They are now loaded into the Takaezu Studio kiln, and it is a happy New Year.