And the cats just love it

Today was firewood day. The day I have to lay in enough wood for winter. Well – it is not wood in the traditional sense – we use cylinders made out of compressed sawdust. But they are very effective.

Not that these days we really need a fire – because the air conditioning works so well -  but we just love it on cold winter evenings when we can sit in front of the fire and read or watch TV.

And the cats just love it.

This used to be a difficult chore for me because of where the wood comes from and where we live.

The task is to:

Go to the hardware store where they sell the wood – stack the wood onto a trolley – take the trolley to the car – stack the wood into the car – drive home and park in the garage – unload the wood onto a smaller trolley – take it into the foyer – up one flight of stairs – along the corridor – into the elevator and up four levels – up another flight of stairs – into our apartment – stack the wood.

It used to take four trips to the hardware store and 30 trips from the garage to the apartment – by which time of course I was pretty well shagged out.

I was at a loss to find an easier way to do this until I discovered Jules – who is Mrs. Moneypenny’s cousin.

Jules was deputizing as cat minder for Mrs. Moneypenny and he looked young and strong so I asked him how he felt about the firewood detail - and he was most enthusiastic – him being a second year medical student and poverty stricken.

So today Jules did the firewood thing. He even used his own car so I was able to loaf about all day while he did all the work.

Bliss.