Bee's Guest House

Beekissed · Oct 9, 2010

I bought two loads of great firewood on Friday for $75 a load, stacked, seasoned oak. Excellent buy around here, and they unloaded it and stacked it in my woodshed.

I had planned on buying more until I had enough in the shed for the winter. I was planning on buying a load as money allowed, which is narrow right now.

I'd also been paying my boys to glean some firewood from my sister's farm and they had brought 3 small pickup loads of very dry locust and pine. The boys are out of work right now and I had planned on buying wood, so why not kill two birds with one stone, right?

So...anyhoo...my church has a firewood ministry every year and I usually donate money and my work and time to it...I find it to be a worthy ministry. This year I didn't really remember it and my truck is in the shop, not to mention my back is a ticking time bomb and I bunged up my shoulder~icing it down as I type and even typing is painful.

They brought me this huge trailer load of oak wood today!!!! It completed my woodpile and will take me through the winter. They usually let me haul a few truckloads home from the ministry each year but they've never provided this much!!!

I am thanking God right now, as my finances are very low at this time. My truck is in the shop for a repair of over $500 and, when you live on my income, those lump sum expenses can hit you hard.

What a blessing! God knows, takes care of me and provides. :bow

It has been a beautiful, blessed day all around~sunshine, perfect temp, fall colors glowing, love flowing. :love

Farmfresh · Oct 9, 2010

How wonderful to get a load of wood like that! What a blessing!

You need to take care of that back girl. With the boys not around as much you have got a lot of work ahead of you this winter.

A few years back I bit the bullet and bought myself on of these Firewood Cart. Man OH MAN! It has saved my back. I can load it up a stick at a time if I need to and then it easily pushes anywhere I need wood ... even through the front door and right up to the wood stove if I want it to!

I bet your trees are beautiful! We need pics. Around here it was 87 today and we still have green leaves on the trees.

FarmerDenise · Oct 10, 2010

Looks like you are getting to harvest what you sowed

What a blessing.

We haven't really even started gathering our firewood. There are at least 2 truckloads at DD's that we can have. I told SO we should pick it up before it rains!!!!
One of our neighbors has a lot of firewood also and has been bringing it over one box at a time. He is trying to get his yard cleaned up. We give him produce in exchange, sometimes homemade cookies or home made jams and pickles.

justusnak · Oct 10, 2010

Bee, isn't it a great feeling knowing your wood is in, and done!? We have 15 ricks ready to go!! We also have 2 large totes, 4x4 ft and about 5 ft tall, FULL of starter wood! Whew! what a job, glad its done. Sounds like you are getting it all together.

Beekissed · Oct 10, 2010

A few years back I bit the bullet and bought myself on of these Firewood Cart. Man OH MAN! It has saved my back. I can load it up a stick at a time if I need to and then it easily pushes anywhere I need wood ... even through the front door and right up to the wood stove if I want it to!

Farm, GOT one!

The old Bat brought many perks with her when she came.

I love, love, love it! We are also hiring a fellow at church to build us a ramp up on the porch and some wide front steps to the same, in order to make it easier to bring wood onto the porch.

Just, you have no idea how great it feels to have adequate firewood. I haven't had enough to last through the winter since I lived at home with the folks. It seems like we scramble and scrabble every year and can't really seem to get enough nor able to afford to buy enough to last.

Last winter we were digging into snow drifts for old wood piles that my sister had on her farm, just trying to stay warm. We managed to make it through without using the electric heat but it was a bad feeling to be that unprepared. I had always lived where we could cut our own, so living up here has been harder.

We have the chainsaw...just need our own land and trees.

I will tell you this...God has been blessing me all around and it feels really good. Really good. I found this verse today and it really describes what I needed to learn and am trying to learn:

"Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord." Psalm 27:14

No more long term SS plans for me, just daily living it and waiting for instruction. A fresh wind is blowing and I can feel it under my wings.

Hallelujah, girls, I feel set free!

Farmfresh · Oct 10, 2010

So glad you have one of those carts. It has really saved my back and body on those arthritis days!

Now enjoy the rest of fall and prepare for the winter with a smile on your face.

Beekissed · Oct 10, 2010

FarmerDenise said:
Looks like you are getting to harvest what you sowed

What a blessing.

We haven't really even started gathering our firewood. There are at least 2 truckloads at DD's that we can have. I told SO we should pick it up before it rains!!!!
One of our neighbors has a lot of firewood also and has been bringing it over one box at a time. He is trying to get his yard cleaned up. We give him produce in exchange, sometimes homemade cookies or home made jams and pickles.

Denise, I think you are right. Sometimes it pays to have given....God provides it right back when I need it. I try to teach that to my children and the Bat....it was hard for me to trust that at first because I could barely afford to give.

But give I did and God returned it to me in ten fold, in good measure, shaken down and over flowing. It helps me to have faith to give again and freely let it go from my hand. Every day is a learning experience!

Farm, my little ol' Bat pulls that cart with ease...right up the steps onto the porch! She is also glowing over the wood...she and Dad always used to put up more wood than they could ever use and every year would have plenty to hold over until next year. She is not used to doing without adequate firewood.