Now We Too Have Firewood

Home Life

As of today we too now have firewood on our balcony, ready to dry over the summer and burn in the winter.
The plan was to meet our landlord at 9:30 am to go wood shopping together. We had collected a list of criteria and tips to get the best deal at the wood market:

1) get a combination of soft and hard woods (beech and oak)
2) measure to make sure it's actually a cubic meter
3) expect to pay in the mid €30's/cub. meter of wood
4) expect to pay €3/cub. meter to get it chopped and stacked at your house

Our good plans will have to stay in the file for another year though, because our landlord showed up at 8:30 am with both the wood and the mobile sawmill unit.

I (Landon) dashed to the ATM for cash to pay the guys and picked up some nylon sacks for hauling wood upstairs. When I came back, Lacey had just returned from her run and the wood had been chopped into foot-long sections. Another friend came shortly after that (9:30 am) and the four of us spent the next several hours bringing the wood up to our 4th floor balcony.

In the end we were all sweaty tired, but in good spirits. We had some good conversations with our landlord about the war and reconciliation with one's enemies. Halfway through the work he asked if we could make some coffee and take a break and we served him US style drip coffee, which choked down wishing it was turkish coffee.

The cost was quite a bit lower than we anticipated, and the opportunity to share a project with the landlord was great for our friendship.