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last of the season's cardboard
Saturday, May 3 2008
A cold rain fell all day, and it was miserable enough weather for me to maintain a fire in the woodstove for most of the day. At this point in the season, I'm burning up any scraps of cardboard I can find, since there's no sense in hoarding it through the summer. For the few chilly days at this time of year, it's possible to get by mainly on cardboard, old phone books, and other human-generated burnables. I'd prefer to hoard all remaining firewood through the summer and use it in the next heating season, when it will be perfectly dry.
Since the weather kept me from working on the car, I spent much of it building drawers for my woodstove pedestal project, which has been on hiatus since the warm weather came and I was distracted (first by solar panel glazing and then by the disassembly of the hatchback. I made the drawers using 3/4 inch thick planks joined at mitred corners, using quarter inch oak plywood for the drawers' bottoms. Eventually I will be surfacing the front of these drawers in stone, which will match the other stone that will cover the non-drawer sides of the pedestal.
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