Team, it is teens in the day and has been in the negatives at night. 5.10s plus gore tex socks plus regular old socks are plenty though. It’s my fingers whose cold can be surprisingly intense. I don’t have the right things for legs either. Thank goodness there’s so much sun and so little wind. The sunny mid 30s are great. Gotta be headed home not long after three because when the shadows lengthen the temperature plummets.

Inside is a different story. The stove is dynamite: Mme Awesome creates scrumdidaliumptious concoctions such as meatloaf, cookies, you name it in the oven and when the thing is rocking, there is a spot on the cooktop that gets to high 400s. The infrared thermometer says the cinderblock wall 3-4 feet from the stove’s cold side is low 80s which all adds up to Zeke being happiest in shorts and a tee shirt. TL;DR It’s toasty.

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I got excited one weekend and built wood storage!! Plus a bed and counter too. Whew! All the wood reused from the demo here or another unit a ways away whose construction debris yielded such gems.

Still gathering firewood. I have yet to see other folks getting some. Ok, I let it lay when it’s this cold.