Yep that's snow

[Mortblanc]

No wood stove at my place, too old to deal with all that stuff any more. I have one on the porch, its for looking at and roasting marshmallows.

I did that for 30 years before the back surgeries and heart attacks. Did I mention that I had my first heart attack while splitting and loading firewood!

Had my second one when I saw all the gear my new wife intended to take to our first camp.

The next winter I have to cut and split wood to stay alive will be my last winter. Guess I could hop a freight train and head south for winter. Not many box cars left to hop on.

I could drive south, but the trip wold cost me more than the extra power to turn up the heat.

Electricity is too cheap to cut firewood, then split firewood, then stack firewood, then go into the snow to carry firewood into the house, then fight the firewood to keep it lit, then wake wondering why the firewood is not keeping the house warm to discover the fire went out at 3 am.