Framing and keeping warm

We finally have some snow!  Not much, and the temperature has been up and down a fair bit.  In spite of having few very cold days, we still burn through firewood at a good rate.  This year we are burning mostly fallen trees from our property, so it burns up more quickly than we'd like.  Processing firewood is a family affair.

Zander is now strong enough to split wood with the axe

My Dad used his ATV to drag some fallen trees from the woods.  Chris chunked them up with the chainsaw before splitting them

The kids use the sled to move the split wood to the wood pile on the porch

 

 

Chris has been putting up walls on the second level

 

He's had some help

 

Grandad, Zander, and Phoenix lend a hand

The West wall goes up

And gets braced in place

Notice how its "almost" warm enough for no jackets and gloves

Phoenix is getting pretty good with a hammer

Finnlee is a good supervisor

All the second level walls done. 
Now Chris is setting up the scaffold to put up the walls that are 2 levels high