This entry was first posted December 14, 2009.
The boys are home for Christmas break and we’ve kept the labor intensive jobs waiting for them.Vernon bought a new chainsaw… so Daniel’s sawed and Brandon has split some really great fir trees logged off of our mountain pasture.
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This log splitter was given to us by Vernon’s Uncle A. Uncle A. helped us remodel the house we live in now, back when my kids were small. As a small repayment, we’d split his wood for him, and after many years he just left it here as a gift. Uncle A. was a great guy, ready to tease me about my name, or the fact that I was born in Oklahoma, or anything else he could think of! He was also a Pearl Harbor survivor and I think of him every December 7th.
![wood2](https://reddirtinmysoul.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/wood2.jpg)
Look closely, and you’ll see Brandon’s breath in this photo. While it isn’t warm by any means, it sure beats the temperatures for last week!
![wood3](https://reddirtinmysoul.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/wood3.jpg)
We now have more wood in my wood shed… more in the calving shed… more in the Mills’ shop. Yay, boys!************************************************************************PUPPY PHOTO OF THE DAY… Just a smidge too big…
![smidge](https://reddirtinmysoul.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/smidge.jpg)
Awwwww, so cute!
back on the farm we burned wood & coal, and dad could really stoke that furnace! hot as heck for a while in the evening & cold by morning!!boy, I miss those days- really, live was great on our farm!!