firewood

well i found out today that my wood guy raised his prices.....not to bad, like 16$ a cord.... i realize his expenses have gone up too
it also makes me realize how right i was when i told bernie we should have put in 10 cords last year
naturally bernie didn't listen to me and gave me an argument
his comment today?......
'how much would we save if we bought logs and a splitter'

well that won't help us this year... but we need to do that for next year now.....
RIGHT NOW
anyway i am going to be calling the wood guy thursday and start getting wood in
every two weeks i think, we'll be getting a load until i feel secure.....
that should be about 10 loads......
yup ten loads should make me feel secure no?

and then i start pricing log splitters
now MY question is.....when will bernie have time to cut and split trees?
he doesn't do yard work NOW
not a hell of a lot outside really at all
so when will he do logs?
is he willing to take a week off to cut and split up say....oh 6 cords worth of full sized trees?
and in the meantime where are these full sized trees going to be dumped so he can split them up?
we got property but not easily accessible property
and where is the log splitter going to live when it isn't splitting up logs?
same place his extremely expensive snow thrower is living?
(when is he going to admit we need a garage? and that he either needs to do something about that or, he needs to let me do something about that)

anyway back to the wood
i spend most of this year arguing with bernie that we needed to get the wood in
oye
it's august!
this stuff should have been stacked in april!
we will most likely save 3-4K in heating costs over oil this year...(about what we save every year)
and while it's hard work it is the way we chose to heat ......or felt we could afford to heat
it's also dirty and messy
but it's secure
no worry about power outages
that's what made the final decision of wood vs pellets or coal

so anyway, now i am trying to figure a wood shed of sorts
oye
we got a lot of land but damn it's not all easily usable

vi
who is going to cook and bake today.....rotisserie chicken coming up