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Yeah, I know all about that time thing. I should have gotten started last week but whilst I’d like to do the lumbering in the morning when it’s cool, something invariably comes up and then the afternoons are too hot for anything but floating around in the pool. The only real difference I...

Yep. I looked at a few of them and some were good and some not so good but in truth, I gleaned a little bit from even the worst of them. That said, with the exception of a guy who hauled up a 8’ section with his front -end loader, I didn’t see anyone use a cant hook/ lifter like I saw a couple...

When we first moved into this house, Yvonne wanted the cedars in front of the house removed. Okay. Now, just to get a basic framework of how things are done where Yvonne is from; in Idaho, if one wants to get rid of some trees on their property, he or she calls the local mill, they come out...

We learned a lot of things from and about the Covid pandemic era but the main lesson a lot of us learned is how much of a social entity that we humans really are. Whether we admit it or not, we need to interact with other people. We are humans and nothing will replace a hug, a handshake or...

I wore a butch until I was about 6 or 7 so I do remember dad throwing a gob Butch Wax on his hand and rubbing it all over my head after he got done cutting my hair. I seriously think that Butch Wax replaced the tar as in “tarred and feathered” because anything that I might have gotten into stuck...

And, the human brain needs and uses roughly 200 calories a day so in theory, the more tasks it has to accomplish, the more calories it burns. :)

Okee-Dokee ! Part of my orders did come on the 17th and some not until a little later but I finally got the mill together and married it up with a 62cc chainsaw w/ a 24” bar and a new ripping chain. The widest board I will be able to glean is about 20” so I’ll have to do a lot of freehand...

To think about it a bit further, there’s one exercise that’s not necessarily classified as an exercise that I absolutely know that everyone enjoys the most provided that one is still physically able. Burns 250+ calories per session, highly aerobic, includes every single muscle grouping and...

Hitting the weights and cables etc are all really important to me but to me they are all totally inclusive for my physical and mental health. No single exercise is greater than the other unless one counts that any exercise using the quads extensively produces the most testosterone. That...

Other than crawling under a renter’s house to fix a water leak, I tried out a new pressure washer Yvonne got from her reviewer’s program from Walmart. Can’t beat “free” for a Father’s Day gift ! The machine is lightweight, has a digital pressure interface on it and 4 snap-on pressure tips and...

Yup !! Don’t know why my “share” button decided to play games but thanks @Shirley Martin for punching it in !

I just heard this about 10 minutes ago. It took me that long after it finished to be able to see clear enough to post it. DERN !! YouTube won’t allow me to share it but the name is “The Twenty-One Steps”. Full song is around 3 minutes or so. Trust me, it’ll bring ya !

There’s a pretty big call for ground and sifted birch bark for tea and for the slabs for those who make it. Along with other benefits, it’s a pain killer, an anti-inflammatory, and also a diuretic. From my understanding, several of the tribes in Alaska use birch for a myriad of purposes...

About 23 or so years ago, Yvonne had a few birch trees on her property in Idaho that had gotten sick and fallen so I did some research about birch bark and the viability of selling it. I should have pursued it a bit further but we had so many irons in the fire that I just didn’t get around to...

This could have gone into the “repurposing” or even the “clutter/uncluttering thread for most certainly when a tree becomes several boards or a neighbor’s felled trees are pretty much removed by way of making planks out of them it sorta depends on how a person looks at things so….I said the heck...

Just a question I and others have been asked: Well, the Bible says “The land of Nod”. B-b-b-b-but, if Cain was the second born after the fall, where did Nod and all those people who lived there come from? Okay, what I have for ya’ll is pure speculation but it’s well founded even if the...

I have widgets that I have no idea what they used to belong to but still, I figure that each widget has a story to tell so I keep ‘em around in case I have an acid flashback from the early 70’s and they start talking. Frankly speaking, I rarely throw anything away that might, just might come...

I just heard that there’s another Flintstone movie that was recently first shown in the UAE. Polling the viewers, the folks in Dubai didn’t like it at all but the good citizens of Abu Dabi Do.

Ornithology class 101