Stocking up old woods from the old house into the large farm barn. We are heading into mid-Autumn season now.
We were googling many websites such as Trademe, Neighbourly site, rural newsletters for the price of firewoods. The prices have shot up, and the prices range between $65 (3.5m3) to $900.00 (two-three months). We were lucky to use old woods from the old house and trees including branches from our property over four years since we moved here.
We do have a heat pump for warm heating during cold Autumn and through Winter or to use cooling heating through Summer. BUT we do not regularly use over four years, and in the past, I did use the warm heat for the room where I was working from home than at work in the early hour of the morning. I used a couple hours only until the sunshine came to heat the sunroom. Our power bills were NOT shocking or horrors, and it remains under $135.00 for three Winter months.
Today the trees are showing signs of autumn colours while our dogs are out hunting wild rabbits near the black wattle hardwood trees. It was a beautiful and warm afternoon at our property. Each night the temperature drops down, and I wore a winter cardigan in the evening. Every morning around 4am, we get up as my partner prepare for his work while I make his lunch. The temperature remains chilly than cold between 2oC and 6oC.
So much to do around the gardens and clearing out the old house before the winter hits here.
Life in Eureka 