For most of my adult life, I have heated our house with wood. When I was young and brave, I used to cut logs into man-handle size pieces, which were about 100 pounds back then, and transport them to the wood yard, where I would work them into stove-size splits and stack them up.
The wood yard was crude but effective. Sloped stacks of wood were covered with used barn tin. Mice went way back in the wood piles and built nests with grasses and
