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Looks like a wonderful place to be, Ron!
Good morning!!!!
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Prayers for your BIL.
daugen
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on these cold days not too hard to imagine life long before thermostats
want it warmer? Throw on more wood...
filled all the bird feeders, they were pretty low.
then feeling guilty I hadn't done the bird bath, I hunted down my bird bath heater and got that
all plugged in. After the first bird discovers it, more come. All frozen solid now outside
decided to try unplugging the inflatables, one out front making unhappy noises. Am sure they don't spec
high quality fans with lubed for life bearings. More like plastic and no bearings at all.........
Don, that sounds awful, prayers sent his way
want it warmer? Throw on more wood...
filled all the bird feeders, they were pretty low.
then feeling guilty I hadn't done the bird bath, I hunted down my bird bath heater and got that
all plugged in. After the first bird discovers it, more come. All frozen solid now outside
decided to try unplugging the inflatables, one out front making unhappy noises. Am sure they don't spec
high quality fans with lubed for life bearings. More like plastic and no bearings at all.........
Don, that sounds awful, prayers sent his way
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Good Morning to All Who Celebrate! Currently 26° heading to a high of 28° with cloud.
Pleased to report that the Great Firewood Gathering Session is behind us, I look forward to it all year. Dry lubricant really helped the Ruggedmade both on the table and the 4 and 6 way wedges. I have videos of it in operation, but I don't think TBN would play them nicely. The species this year were tulip poplar and rock solid red oak. There were 7 of us helping, and once the Ruggedmade got warmed up. It was all we could do to keep up!
This year, I taught my friend's wife how to use the tractor. So that's now on her Christmas list. Arms and back regret that decision as those rounds were heavy!
Tractor also re-opened a path that had a tree come down on it. Told the homeowner that if something happens and he needs the tractor to just give me a holler. I don't own this thing to keep it in a shed.
Tractor standing by waiting for us to come back from lunch, you can just see the corner of the splitter in the left hand side. Over the course of the day, we cracked through I think 3 and a half piles of rounds. Which got us this pile:
Maybe 2 and a half cord of wood total? The rear pile is two stacks deep.
Last thing of note: younger brother of my friend joined us, this was his first time seeing the Ruggedmade in operation. Coming from swinging a maul to that, he said and I quote "This was the most enjoyable firewood session I've ever attended."
After the Great Firewood Gathering Session on Saturday, Sunday was spent mostly recovering. Did the pre-Christmas Box burning and then put everything in its proper place and resharpened the 500i (Did I mention that Red Oak was hard as a rock? because it seriously put a hurting on the chain.)
Goals for this week, speak to the realtor about a few more properties. Talk to Campground owning friend about getting a date set for his firewood. Survive workweek.
Don, Praying for your BIL. Motorcycle vs 18 wheeler...that's hardly a contest.
Buppies, glad you caught your mistake. Praying for you both and hope the Season brings you and Holly some happy memories.
Drew, bad luck with the turtles, hope your inflatables stay untouched. Seems every year around here there's some mean spirited b****** or dumb teenager with a pellet pew-pew who has to ruin someone's holiday decorations.
All not specified, y'all stay safe out there and be well! No more slips and falls! Take your time!
Prayers for all Ailing and Recovering!
EDIT: Had to remove a no-no word. That's always what gets me.
Pleased to report that the Great Firewood Gathering Session is behind us, I look forward to it all year. Dry lubricant really helped the Ruggedmade both on the table and the 4 and 6 way wedges. I have videos of it in operation, but I don't think TBN would play them nicely. The species this year were tulip poplar and rock solid red oak. There were 7 of us helping, and once the Ruggedmade got warmed up. It was all we could do to keep up!
This year, I taught my friend's wife how to use the tractor. So that's now on her Christmas list. Arms and back regret that decision as those rounds were heavy!
Tractor also re-opened a path that had a tree come down on it. Told the homeowner that if something happens and he needs the tractor to just give me a holler. I don't own this thing to keep it in a shed.
Tractor standing by waiting for us to come back from lunch, you can just see the corner of the splitter in the left hand side. Over the course of the day, we cracked through I think 3 and a half piles of rounds. Which got us this pile:
Maybe 2 and a half cord of wood total? The rear pile is two stacks deep.
Last thing of note: younger brother of my friend joined us, this was his first time seeing the Ruggedmade in operation. Coming from swinging a maul to that, he said and I quote "This was the most enjoyable firewood session I've ever attended."
After the Great Firewood Gathering Session on Saturday, Sunday was spent mostly recovering. Did the pre-Christmas Box burning and then put everything in its proper place and resharpened the 500i (Did I mention that Red Oak was hard as a rock? because it seriously put a hurting on the chain.)
Goals for this week, speak to the realtor about a few more properties. Talk to Campground owning friend about getting a date set for his firewood. Survive workweek.
Don, Praying for your BIL. Motorcycle vs 18 wheeler...that's hardly a contest.
Buppies, glad you caught your mistake. Praying for you both and hope the Season brings you and Holly some happy memories.
Drew, bad luck with the turtles, hope your inflatables stay untouched. Seems every year around here there's some mean spirited b****** or dumb teenager with a pellet pew-pew who has to ruin someone's holiday decorations.
All not specified, y'all stay safe out there and be well! No more slips and falls! Take your time!
Prayers for all Ailing and Recovering!
EDIT: Had to remove a no-no word. That's always what gets me.
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No, but that roller does have a scraper thought but that's kinda for passing over water ak a wet spot.
daugen
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that's some nice looking red oak
lot of btu's there
lot of btu's there
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Good Morning!
Currently 49F with a low of 38f and a predicted high of 55f. Not too windy but nice and sunny now.
Doing some interior work on our 'old' house. Nice to have natural gas heat there. Have a conference meeting via internet this afternoon for a few hours. Sure is nice not to have to drive hours to attend in person.
Working on bagging leaves and burning some small limbs that fell over the past few days.
@Buppies, hopefully you suffer no ill effects from the meds.
I hope everyone has a wonderful day. Prayers for our Nation!
Currently 49F with a low of 38f and a predicted high of 55f. Not too windy but nice and sunny now.
Doing some interior work on our 'old' house. Nice to have natural gas heat there. Have a conference meeting via internet this afternoon for a few hours. Sure is nice not to have to drive hours to attend in person.
Working on bagging leaves and burning some small limbs that fell over the past few days.
I Stihl love the backpack blower! It's pretty hard to bruise my ego. I work to keep it as deflated as possible. Wife and I have laughed about that incident several times, so it was good for something. I'm just glad she didn't see it or get a picture!
@Buppies, hopefully you suffer no ill effects from the meds.
I hope everyone has a wonderful day. Prayers for our Nation!
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@FriendwithTractor The red oak reminded me of splitting it by hand as a kid- what fun! It split so cleanly, and especially easily when it was -10F or colder, but yes, hard as a rock. Of course, I learned to cut firewood with elm, which was practically hand to hand combat on each split. Get a partial split, the pick up the two sided axe to hack through all the strands to separate the two pieces, and repeat. Most of my adolescence was hand cutting (two man saw), and splitting a series of monster elms that died off from Dutch elm disease. It was great firewood at the end of the day, but yes it warmed you twice.
I picked a couple of large bags of Fuyu persimmons yesterday, as the birds, primarily ravens, are starting to eat them. We will eat some of them fresh and dry the rest. The first batch has already been through the fruit dryer, so the house smells fragrantly of caramelized fruit. We have a couple of astringent persimmons trees that we haven't figured out how to ripen. Yet. I can see that I need to do some pruning in a month or two. It is also avocado season for one of our trees, and that has been a wonderful treat. We have a couple of different trees, although we had to start over on our favorite Bacon avocado (person, not the flavor) when it came down in a 100mph windstorm. I have high hopes for two of its seedlings, one of which is over six feet already, but all of the avocado trees were savaged by deer one night earlier this year, leaving no leaves below the four foot line. I hope that the frosts won't be too hard on the new growth, and I may have to tent them if we get a big snow or deep freeze (for here).
Off to see what I can get into around the ranch when it finally gets light out. The do list keeps getting longer for some reason.
All the best,
Peter
I picked a couple of large bags of Fuyu persimmons yesterday, as the birds, primarily ravens, are starting to eat them. We will eat some of them fresh and dry the rest. The first batch has already been through the fruit dryer, so the house smells fragrantly of caramelized fruit. We have a couple of astringent persimmons trees that we haven't figured out how to ripen. Yet. I can see that I need to do some pruning in a month or two. It is also avocado season for one of our trees, and that has been a wonderful treat. We have a couple of different trees, although we had to start over on our favorite Bacon avocado (person, not the flavor) when it came down in a 100mph windstorm. I have high hopes for two of its seedlings, one of which is over six feet already, but all of the avocado trees were savaged by deer one night earlier this year, leaving no leaves below the four foot line. I hope that the frosts won't be too hard on the new growth, and I may have to tent them if we get a big snow or deep freeze (for here).
Off to see what I can get into around the ranch when it finally gets light out. The do list keeps getting longer for some reason.
All the best,
Peter
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daugen
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nice to hear from you two bit.
has anyone tried the chub beef from Costco?
Ten pound tubes, told you have to ask a butcher for it.
92 percent lean so not good for burgers but lots of other uses.
have held off buying hamburger in last month waiting for price to go down.
It's gone up.
what used to be four bucks a pound is now six. Wow.
but you can get back to four dollars if you buy in quantity and then repackage and freeze.
Just wondering what the quality is like.
not like you can be choosy as to what goes in most commercial ground beef.
I believe the lowest level of quality is "floor scrapings".
growing your own avocados is very cool Peter.
Almost enough to make me want to live there...
But I did come to visit my sister in Muir Beach
wow, new storm hazard
high winds mean flying avocados?
has anyone tried the chub beef from Costco?
Ten pound tubes, told you have to ask a butcher for it.
92 percent lean so not good for burgers but lots of other uses.
have held off buying hamburger in last month waiting for price to go down.
It's gone up.
what used to be four bucks a pound is now six. Wow.
but you can get back to four dollars if you buy in quantity and then repackage and freeze.
Just wondering what the quality is like.
not like you can be choosy as to what goes in most commercial ground beef.
I believe the lowest level of quality is "floor scrapings".
growing your own avocados is very cool Peter.
Almost enough to make me want to live there...
But I did come to visit my sister in Muir Beach
wow, new storm hazard
high winds mean flying avocados?
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Good to see you are still kicking!