I am a little old, and have had two major surgeries in '21, so have been unabe to gather firewood this past year. My woodshed holds about 9 cords of wood, and it was half full at the beginning of this heating season. We have a well insulated house and in winter use the wood for cooking and heating. I have my propane tanks turned off and they have been off for sevaral years. They are almost full. I am about 3 days away from using the remainder of our wood. It is cold as a cod outside and we are expecting snow, sleet, and more cold weather in the coming days and months. I've been supplementing the seasoned wood with some of the pine i cut up last year by splitting it and mixing it with the seasoned wood. The 18 inch pieces when split are too wet to really work well so I will not continue that for the next days until I run out of seasoned wood. I'll split the logs and stack them and start using propane and induction for cooking. Luckily, I have lots of standing pine and some still standing ash that I can start to harvest, cut into pieces, split and stack for next year. I do not usually season for more than about 8-10 months which seems to yield wood that is about 15% moisture level, and burns well. Yes, I burn pine! It works well and leaves a lot less ash than oak, it seems. I heated all last year with pine until this year, the remainder of my woodshed is hardwoods of various species. I was able to accumulate the needed tools to accomplish heating with wood. I hydraulically split wood sort of as a meditation and treat stacking it in a similar fashion. It allows me to feel my body move with power and energy, which is very helpful in keeping fit. We grow a lot of our own food, can our fruit, make hot pepper jelly, and have lamb galore and a lot of beautiful shorn finnsheep wool to keep us fed, busy and warm. I look at the ancillary hidden costs of using fossil fuel to heat our house, and try to balance the labor I pay for fire wood against the destruction that fossil fuels have had on our planet. Nothing is free, and life is an expense whatever we do! Luckily the sun provides almost all of our electrical grid based power, and grows our food! The food we eat is sourced from our composted, no till, garden beds; using organic compost from our local area supplemented by sheep manure and leaves. I know where the seed comes from, and what goes into the food we eat. Sure we supplement that with fresh lettuce and veggies in season, and salad stuff, and are by no means self sufficient until spring when we can grow our own greens again. So, burning wood is just part of our lives and has been for the past 12 years. I will continue that practice until I am no longer able to do it.