It looks like winter is right around the corner. The leaves are falling, the nights are cool, the days are getting shorter, the spiders are weaving Taj Mahal webs, and the persimmon seed reveals a spoon, which according to folklore, indicates a heavy winter of shoveling snow. Our family motto this season is to "be prepared". Unlike in years past, when we found ourselves foraging for kindlin and sticks of firewood in the snow and ice, we have been cutting and splitting firewood like busy little ants this past week. Everyone took a turn operating the log splitter, even Hunter.
Jordan is a worker. He ran the log splitter most of the time.
When it was Hunter's turn, he had to make sure Dakota was doing it to his specifications. He just likes things to be done his way.
Riley ran the chainsaw and helped cut up the huge logs. This is his kind of work, rather than splitting and stacking.
Hunter was hamming it up for my camera, so I just kept taking pictures. Right after these shots, Riley accidentally rolled a log over on him and gave him a nice goose egg on his forehead. After the crying was over, he needed an icepack and a drink break. Poor kid. All in all, we got a lot accomplished and if all else fails, we will have a cozy fire to sit next to this winter.
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