There’s a lot of advantages to living on a piece of property with lots of land. I feel really lucky that this piece of property actually has woods on it. I can actually go hiking on my own property in the hours before sunset. I don’t have to get in the car and drive down to a local nature preserve. Plus the nature preserve always gets closed down right at sunset. You can’t stay and watch the sun go down otherwise you could get locked in and not get out until the morning. There’s a big gate and somebody comes and locks it every night right at sundown. So I definitely enjoy having all of these woods on my property and being able to go for walks whenever I want to. On top of the hiking opportunities they afford me, I also have plenty of trees for firewood. This year I decided to buy a wood stove to help offset winter heating costs. Otherwise I typically just use an electric furnace but it’s extremely expensive using it throughout the whole winter season. I knew utilizing wood heating would decrease the frequency in which I need to use the central furnace. However, I didn’t anticipate how difficult chopping wood would turn out to be. I need to get one of those electric wood splitters so I don’t have to swing an ax anymore. Worried that I’m going to hurt myself with this ax one of these days. At least I have enough wood cut for the winter season and all the heating that it’s going to require to stay warm indoors.