Jake helped chop up a massive felled oak tree with friends over the weekend. That’s his “fancy” (his adjective, not mine) new dump truck and trailer loaded with cut up oak.
The stumps are the size of cars…well, Zip cars, anyway.
Look at the size of that thing!
Some of the oak was processed into lumber to be turned into a hand crafted, rough hewn oak table.
Some of it was turned into mulch.
The vast majority of it was turned into firewood for everyone to bring home. Jake filled his entire dump truck with logs for our wood furnace. Oak is a hard wood that burns nice and slow….essential for these long, cold February nights.
It was a weekend of hard labor, followed by a relaxing game of horseshoes in 35 degree chill. No thanks. I’ll be inside nursing a hot tea.
June and I showed up just in time for lunch: A homemade pizza explosion. Will you look at that beautifully risen dough?
Hosts Lornie and Thom are very serious about pizza. Don’t come here looking for Dominos.
Lornie has tested at least 10 different dough recipes before settling on and fine tuning the one she likes best, and let me tell you, it is the best. I don’t think I’ve ever had a lighter, chewier, perfectly puffed crust anywhere on this earth. I wouldn’t dare share her recipe. A pizza maker of her caliber is allowed to keep some secrets.
It doesn’t hurt that Thom and Lornie have an outdoor pizza oven they built themselves. It can heat up to like 9000 degrees and cook a pizza in 3 minutes. Did I mention they’re serious about pizza?
Hungry axe men gather round to marvel at Thom’s pizza furnace….in their socks.
Go ahead. Stick your hand in there. I dare you.
I didn’t do any manual labor but still managed to put away five pieces of pizza. Five pieces of pizza! How could I not? With pizza this good, it was impossible not to. Thanks for the incredible lunch, Thom and Lornie!
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Holy smokes! That wood! Those sizes! How did they get them onto the trailer? They must have each weighed a ton, literally.
And the oven. Can’t believe they made pizza in 35 degree weather! We also have an outdoor wood-fired pizza oven that my husband made but we don’t do any pizza in the winter. No way! Too cold! Wood-fired, homemade pizza is *thee* best pizza you’ve ever had though, isn’t it?
I so want that outdoor oven!
Me too — one of my dreams is an oven like that. Someday …
What is that new toy? Does the car seat fit in that? Do you get to drive it? Fairs fair, next trip to NY choose that truck to drive. Better yet, Home Depot and have them load your new dishwasher on that trailer to bring it home! Men!!!!!!!
wow! talk about a productive Sunday…