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Posted on 12/01/2006 12:55:15 PM PST by ecurbh
WooHoo! Gaudete Sunday precious!
That'd be the one! But right now I'm making enchiladas. I'll do another batch o'cookies after dinner.
"You mean spritz cookies that you squeeze through a tube with the changeable discs?--That'd be the one! But right now I'm making enchiladas. I'll do another batch o'cookies after dinner."
Squeeze tube enchiladas. What will they think of next!
I've been making chocolate crinkles. Yesterday I made oatmeal scotchies and one-pan magic cookie bars. Talon and I both have to bring food to work this week; his department and my whole company are both about the same sixe so I've made like 9 dozen cookies.
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At least all the dangerous trees have been self-trimmed, so you shouldn't experience quite this level of damage for many years. Spoken by someone who saw the power companies in Michigan trim trees along their right-of-way 30 years behind their own published schedule.
You can get away with that when the state regulatory agencies are run by RATs. They always "fight" for the little guy (the only kind of "fighting" they do) if there's anything left after schmoozing with the evil companies they're supposed to regulate.
I looked at it too, trying to figure out where you cut first :~)
Great pics!! OB was just looking at 'em and sighed, "lots of board feet in those logs". Can take the man out of the forest, but not the forester out of the man :-)
LSA
After Fran blew through, there was actually a small operator offering to log the debris.
There were firewooders doing it here after the icestorm; occasionally you'd see a self loader from the Ozarks picking up trees. Lot of wood did go to chips, well, it's in the new houses now...
Heh...there's a post on Craigslist offering free firewood - you cut. ;-)
Well...it *might* work.
Hey, all's well that ends well! A heartwarming story, very nice reading. And thanks for the pics.
Hair, please get a CO monitor if you can at all find one for the next time...there are horror stories on FR (and elsewere) about what CO fumes have done. I keep the gen as far from the house as I can get it.
Anyhow, I loved reading about how you guys coped with the power outage and cold and everything. It reminded me of how one winter about 15 years ago a bunch of us were up at the house in rural VA with our spouses and kids when an ice storm put the power out for several days. People didn't keep generators around then as they do now, but luckily we had a good supply of firewood and the stove ran on gas. We basically just all camped out in the one room that had a fireplace during the day. At night we used one hell of a lot of blankets and quilts and did OK. Went down the hill to the lake to bring back water to make the toilets work.
But the house was very old, built well before the advent of electricity, so we had a chance to see how people had lived in those days, sort of. 'Course no one had TV, so that whole part of the county basically stayed kind of bombed for a few days, for entertainment.
Will do. :~)
Heh - it'll get taken. People with fireplaces are always looking for wood.
Heh... OK scratch the part where we said it was nicely landscaped :~)
Well...it depends on the definition of "landscaping"...
What is scaping, anyhoo? Is that hunk of land at the end of the tree scaped?
Mr. Bowman, what's the right way to reduce those trees that are broken accross the road? I don't know what I'm doing, but if it was me, I'd start with the ends away from the trunk and cut little pieces off, one at a time and carefully, until I got back to where the other end is rooted in the ground.
Thanks for pointing that out, we couldn't read the sign but thought it might a real estate sign. Maybe the 'homesite' is cleared now?
Maybe it is :~)
Imbibing corn by the gallon, right? ;o)
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