Collecting Firewood With Jim and Vinnie

Jim and I went out to the east end of the valley a couple weeks ago to our friend Vinnie's to help clear, cut and load firewood. It was a perfect winter day and as you can see from the photos he lives in a beautiful little corner of the valley. There is a eucalyptus grove (which due to a beetle has produced a lot of firewood trees for us), and huge boulders. I'll be spending the next week getting it all from the driveway into the backyard. Then the week after working the kinks out of my back.