Not quite done with mowing, but it’s raining so no way to wrap it up. Instead, I’m turning to another item on the to-do list, tackle the remaining trees downed in our ‘recent unpleasantness‘ a couple of months back. I confess that the logistics of untangling the multiple trees, the largest only about eighteen inches [...]
Posted on September 29th, 2012 by jack-of-all-thumbs
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Decided to take a break from work, and the world, and get started on the logs which were delivered on Monday. They needed to have been turned into firewood about two months ago. The view when I stopped midday for an ibuprofen sandwich. Some change in the relative size of the piles by sunset, when [...]
Posted on September 11th, 2009 by jack-of-all-thumbs
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Yes, we’ve had a hint of snow, and I had intended to be ahead on preparations for winter this year, but there were delays in getting the logs delivered, and further delays on my part in turning them into firewood. So I still don’t have that self-satisfying pile of split wood drying safely in the [...]
Posted on November 24th, 2008 by jack-of-all-thumbs
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I know the title is a mouthful. I confess I had to look up how to spell obsolescence. But the phrase ‘planned obsolescence’ is one of the banes of our existence in this throwaway society. Here’s what I mean: You buy a thing. By definition, all things now come with one or more electronic parts. [...]
Posted on August 6th, 2008 by jack-of-all-thumbs
Filed under: Energy, Rants and Musings, Uncategorized | 7 Comments »