a) conventional wisdom hereabouts notes that firewood should be stored away from the mists of our winters. Alas, my home currently mostly lacks such a place.
b) what’s the going rate for a cord of dense wood hereabouts, anyway?
c) no, really. where does you alls keep the good burnin’ wood? Izzit near? ‘Cuz I’m needin’.
Mike, As I recall from the pics, you have some sort of carport. Even in a town as soggy as Seattle, seasoned wood under a carport and covered with a tarp should be just fine. Nor Cal in the winter is as moist as any place I’ve ever been. I didn’t much like the mold growing on the walls, but was really disturbed by the moss on my inside windowsills. Still, the firewood in the yard, covered with a tarp, burned just fine in the woodstove. I’ve moved out of the redwoods and my house is no longer quite so dank, but I lived with wood heat in the temperate rainforest for almost 15 years. Nowadays, I press a button and hot air flows out of the walls. Amazing.
In Bron the method engaged in was:
a) drive around to farmsteads and look for signs
b) check the classified section of the newspaper
c) non-chain gas stations.
d) go out to the pile where we cut down a tree last year
No idea which your folks used
pops mostly cuts his own wood from their quite-densely forested lot. They often have downed trees from storms – one fell on the house once – and he saws, chops, and stacks like the farm boy he once was.