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joker
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 Thu Dec 29, 2016 3:19 pm |
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The house was a bit cold upon returning from a trip to visit family back east for the holidaze. And I'm feeling it due to the common cold I picked up from pretty much everyone back there. Thus, the wood stove is crackling behind me now. An insurance inspection of our house forced us to update from our 36 year old stove to a new one, which is clearly much more efficient, and it has a nice bonus that the glass on the door tends to stay cleaner - all the better for enjoying the visual aspect of the fire (my sister in law in ME has a metal door on her wood stove - much less fun!!).
Yeah, we're probably going to run out of dry wood soon here. I've been splitting and stacking a nice sized pile thanks to getting a bunch of free cut rounds of Fir from a new neighbor who cut down a handful of big trees on their property last summer. But they won't be ready for burning this season. I finally got the hang of using the sledge/wedge combo for breaking up the rounds into pieces I can carry and split with an axe.
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Backpacker Joe
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I rarely cut any trees on my property. I like them. When I find any dead ones I cut them. Im always on the spy for wood for sale over here.
On a fun/silly note, at thanksgiving I saw a truck with firewood for sale in North Bend. On the side of the truck it said, "Organic Firewood" I sure had a good laugh at that one.
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
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"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
— Abraham Lincoln
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treeswarper
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Fri Dec 30, 2016 1:05 pm |
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I am sure Organic Firewood costs more.
I need to do some thinning around here so will be dumping some trees and cutting them up for firewood. Then maybe it will be spring and the Forest Service will provide? The latter has been difficult due to washed out roads and there is quite a bit of competition for firewood out there. I have been getting it from cleaning up slash piles on private property, but those are gone.
What's especially fun about sock puppets is that you can make each one unique and individual, so that they each have special characters. And they don't have to be human––animals and aliens are great possibilities
What's especially fun about sock puppets is that you can make each one unique and individual, so that they each have special characters. And they don't have to be human––animals and aliens are great possibilities
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Cyclopath
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Fri Dec 30, 2016 2:20 pm |
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| Backpacker Joe wrote: | | On the side of the truck it said, "Organic Firewood" |
You have to make sure it's gluten free.
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Malachai Constant
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Inorganic firewood is called coal 
"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn
"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn
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treeswarper
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I scored a load of Alder today. We have gotten quite a bit of snow so Alder trees are committing suicide. Today's haul was from our road.
What's especially fun about sock puppets is that you can make each one unique and individual, so that they each have special characters. And they don't have to be human––animals and aliens are great possibilities
What's especially fun about sock puppets is that you can make each one unique and individual, so that they each have special characters. And they don't have to be human––animals and aliens are great possibilities
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Backpacker Joe
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The preferred method of firewood transport. From shed to porch. LOL.
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
— Abraham Lincoln
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
— Abraham Lincoln
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Just_Some_Hiker
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-1 degree in Ronald this morning. 
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Hiker Mama
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Our stove has been going all day here, but Im having trouble getting it warm enough. We got a bunch of free wood the past two years from my parents, who had some huge firs and cedars removed from their yard. I think this year we'll use most of that up. Next summer I'm either going to have to buy more wood, or buy a trailer to haul my own.  We got spoiled the last two years.
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jackchinook
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Ronald, Winthrop will see your -1, and raise you:
(yep, my wood stove was fully stoked last night and again in the morning)
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JonnyQuest
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| Malachai Constant wrote: | | Inorganic firewood is called coal |
Pretty sure coal is about as organic as you can get.
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Malachai Constant
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| JonnyQuest wrote: | | Pretty sure coal is about as organic as you can get. |
Not according to the State of California
"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn
"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn
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DigitalJanitor
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Yeah, -3° near Thorp this morning, reports of -7° in Roslyn/Cle Elum area. Skis are in the truck, because I'm a lunch hour masochist.
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Just_Some_Hiker
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| DigitalJanitor wrote: | | 7° in Roslyn/Cle Elum area. |
-4 yesterday and -8 this morning. 
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DigitalJanitor
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| Just_Some_Hiker wrote: | | DigitalJanitor wrote: | | 7° in Roslyn/Cle Elum area. |
-4 yesterday and -8 this morning. |
Swapped the skis for the fat bike today. I need to start getting in shape for the bike season anyway, but the scales were so loud on the ice yesterday I was getting annoyed... even though the sky was certainly beautiful at sunset...
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