Its been quite a winter, alright! Chain saw to get to work - had to laugh! Thats a real example of the flexability needed to survive in the north woods.
What do you teach - saw that in your profile.
One fall while my hubby was deep in the mountains hunting for 4 days/nights, a windstorm took out a 60 foot fir tree in our meadow - not so bad, except it landed across our electric fence & opened a new "exit" for the horses. I had to use the chain saw to cut the tree trunk & branches in order to repair the fence - that job couldn't wait for hubby to return - horses may have been into the next county by then.
The tree provided many hours of warmth from our woodstove after it was sufficiently dried to use for firewood. :)
BTW, looks like you also live out in the woods - just farther north than we are. Where in BC are you? We have friends in southern BC & Manitoba.