@trinsec today is warm at 10 Celsius. 0⁰ at night. But cold weather is coming. In 2 days -6 night temperature. And who knows what's coming. In December, a couple of days before Christmas we got -23 Celsius with a 40 mph wind that brought wind chill to -40 in Celsius and fahrenheit. So I want to stay ready. I went through 11 boxes of wood and was running 3 electric heaters.
Funny thing, in the kitchen I had a case of canned soda sitting on the floor. They began exploding. But today is warm. Tomorrow too. Then the winter blast from Canada arrives.

@TheOldGuy Worst we had was somewhere begin December, when we got close to -10C in the nights. About a week of extra heating, and then it was suddenly above average warm again.

Not that I'm complaining too much... especially with the high gas prices lately. :P It just means that we're having very wet days instead.

If you had soda exploding from sitting on the kitchen floor, that must've been awfully cold. And that indoors. O.o

I wonder if you're one of the people who literally lives in 'a cabin in the woods'? Though you mentioned electric heaters, so not that far off a grid?

@trinsec I live in the woods but we have good electric. It's a co-op. And our crews are so good they go other places when needed. Went to Louisiana when they got several tornadoes in one storm. Yeah, during that storm the floor was cold. And the kitchen and living room were pretty cold. I have a door that I close at night. It cuts off the living room and kitchen from the wood stove. I buy reject logs from a logging truck driver. He hauls logs to the lumber mills during the day and then loads rejects and sells them in evening and on Saturdays. Of course when the weather is bad he skips it. $600 for a logging truck load. It's a lot of wood. With black oak a certain amount of them are hollow. Sawmills don't want them. I actually prefer limbs between 5" and 12". Easy to cut and split. He brought me some this year about 20". My chainsaw is 16".

@trinsec this was taken from my back steps looking north. Pictures are easier to upload in early morning. It's 6:45AM. I own to the bottom of the hill.

@TheOldGuy Huh nice. I live in the city, near the suburbs. A small garden of about... 7 by... uh.. 11? meter is mine to take care of. Plus a smaller front garden that I mostly ignore but is doing otherwise fine too.

I think for me that's big enough. I'm not living a very active life. :) Though it'd be nice to live 'near the woods' so to speak, but then I'd have to be further away from the city and that won't be it for me.

I do have a view on a small park though, and my area's fairly green. If I wanted to, a 10 min bike is off to the lake. I suppose that's something.

@trinsec This is looking east. You can't see the back of the clearing because it curves. I own to the back. It's 10 acres. That with a ratty (literally)old mobile home was $40,000 when I bought it. This clearing didn't exist when I bought it. I have cleared about 2 acres and cleaned out the woods a bit so you can walk in them.
Rodents are all gone with three cats. I have one small cat who is voracious. Snakes too. I saw him take on a water moccasin down by the cesspool. I had a lot of frogs and that's why the water moccasin moved in. But these woods usually have a lot of copperheads, but he eats them. All I see are parts he does not eat.
Our weather will be cold a few times. But usually not below about -12C. That -23C with 40 mph wind was terrible. -40C chill factor. I never want that again.