Thistledog's Farm

 Last Tuesday’s ice storm through Kentucky and surrounding areas hit the Farm, but not as bad as it could have.  The folks were without power for an hour and a half, they said, and had to burn quite a stack of wood in the little fireplace to keep the place warm.

It’s an all-electric double-wide trailer house, on a permanent foundation, with good 6″ walls well-insulated, but you know, with electric heat and an electric stove, you’re just screwed when (not if) the power goes out.

We’re planning on installing a little wood-burning stove where the fireplace is – probably do that next Fall.  By the time I move there, I’m going to be heating with wood, and might even get a propane stove put in, too.

But the folks are ok and the temperatures are climbing again, so for now, disaster has been foiled.  A friend up in the Louisville area wrote about this ice storm up there, and spoke of one a couple of years back, down in Arkansas where they used to live, that snapped big beautiful trees with the sounds of gunshots.   I do not like to see great living things damaged like that, but if they do go crashing down, you just make more firewood, I suppose.  And any good saw logs can be made into lumber, if you have the means to do that.