Another Foggy Fall Morning

Morning breaking through the pines to the west our house.

It was another foggy morning here in the woods.  Temperatures going down to the low 50s F. at night and the warming to 80s F in the day provide the moisture and perfect atmospheric conditions to create hauntingly beautiful morning sunrises, complete with a misty fog.  This morning was one of those mornings.  I captured this view of the woods to the west of our house while out on my morning walk.  

Our small family tractor waiting for
its next assigned task.

I have often said that those of us lucky enough to be born in Mississippi stay here because of the perfect weather we have during the months of April and October.  We endure long hot, humid summers and short but relatively cold, wet winters so we can enjoy the spring and fall months. These months are well worth the wait.  

By this time of  the autumn, I should be gathering firewood in preparation for the cooler months ahead but have had at least a thousand reasons to do almost anything else but that.  This weekend I will have to take the time to add to our stockpile of firewood.  The task will entail tuning up and sharpening the old chainsaw so the work will go quickly and safely.  In all we will use approximately two cords of wood and as of now, there is about a half cord in the wood pile.  Since Logan is playing in the High School Soccer Jamboree at FHS my time will be limited but, before the weekend is over I will put in a few hours of cutting, splitting and stacking of some of the downed, already dried timber around the place. Once this is done we will have a start on creating our store of firewood for the winter.

Until my next post...