To make a fire

Here is our nice burning fire. It has taken us about a month to figure out how to make a good fire in a wood stove. We asked a lot of people and read many websites about fire making. The key was having good dry logs. Next, is to split those logs into quarters to make smaller logs easier to burn.

Here is A. splitting logs with a 12 pound maul. It is like and ax only heavy. We have both taken turns chopping logs.

Poppy chose to hang around to catch the flying bark off the split logs. Poppy has no common sense. It is a lot of hard work but is great exercise.