With this recent cold weather my wood stove is nicer than ever.  After a hard day of shoveling snow I curl up in front of the stove like a cat seeking warmth.

Winter arrived this weekend.  Light snow started Saturday morning and picked up by afternoon becoming heavy.  At sunset the wind arrived and blew strong all night.  And the temperature stayed in the single digits most of the weekend. Saturday morning...

It's warming up!   ...a little.    Today we made it just into the double digits above zero for a high and it looks like our low overnight will stay above zero. Tuesday morning's low was -13 F.   A number of my windows had frost on them.   Cold...

Another cold day where the high temperature officially made it to 11 degrees.   My thermometer never made it out of the single digits.  The temperature now is heading south and is a degree shy of the minus double digits.   The official temperature...

Today I made sure the wood stove was going.  The outside temperature slowly slid all day from 12 degrees to zero right now.  And that is not factoring in the wind chill.  The house temperature was in the low 50s when I got up but I had it up at high as...