salvaged lumber becomes firewood

I've been cutting up any unpainted lumber I've scrounged- for firewood/heat. I dug a hole in the rear yard near the fence to deposit the ashes over the winter- ashes with nails. It's been cold enough in the mornings and evenings to gift myself a little fire. I've been warming the kitchen with cooking. I large pot of tomato based soup. I cut up, skins in tact, all my red tomatoes picked before the frost the other night. I cooked them down with beet greens and stems and the chard leaves and stems, some onions and quinoa too- and threw in lentils and rice I pre-cooked. It turned out great and extra to freeze.

Yesterday it was corn bread and today a pumpkin bread with no pumpkin. In the pumpkin's stead I used home grown plumbs I'd chopped and frozen and raisins and some crab apple spread canned 2 years ago. The house is warm.