#15 how do we brace ourselves for a danish winter?

"Last winter was our first winter in our small, Danish homestead. It was also the coldest winter in 20 years with several days reaching temperatures of minus 10 degrees. I remember, Herluf would take in bucket after bucket of firewood, and the masonry oven would burn all day. Still it was cold, so cold, that the inside of our front door would be covered with frost in the morning, and the dew that was sat on the inside of the glass of the rotten and leaky windows would freeze into bulbs of ice. So this year, our second winter, we wanted to be prepared..." Read the rest of the story, and many more, on our blog Home by the Beech Trees: https://baggebohomestead.substack.com/. Chapters: 00:00 prologue 00:22 replacing a rotten door 04:11 treatment for leaky windows 09:28: knitting a warm sweater 13:50 firing up the masonry oven 15:57 making rice porridge 18:36 epilogue