Winter Warming

I am trying to keep a healthy work life balance - part of which means 'grounding' myself - in my case I do this by walking and working on 'surviving' - by this I mean growing food and creating my home. For example I spent an hour yesterday I enjoyed the first warming from my logs. The advantage of a log fire is that you get at least two warmings - I get a load more.
Firstly you get warm warm sourcing the logs - either by cutting down some trees or just picking up the cord wood, that is the lengths of the wood that are suitable for using as logs cut into handy lengths so you can easily carry them.
Then when you get home these need cutting up, splitting and stacking to mature - green wood needs at least a year to dry out before burning. If like me you have to mature wood in the open you then need to put your wood in the dry store for winter. I've been using an electric chain saw at home and it makes the job far easier - as does my 'bomb'. This is a coned shape lump of metal with notches and ridges that hold it in the log while it is driven in, this can split a round into four logs.
Finally you get to sit in front of the fire - I will have to wait until next year to get the final warming from these logs - but I am looking forwards to it.
I think that there are many benefits - both physical and mental by contributing to something other than work - I really feel the benefits of getting away from my desk and getting on with something physical.