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To: DelaWhere

Oh, I know you wouldn’t tell us wrong! It’s only if I follow instructions wrong....

Well, I have nothing else to use the oxygen absorbers for right now. Or in the next 6 months. I have about 2 years worth of grains and legumes and other stuff already in superpails with mylar and oxygen absorbers or in cans with ‘em as well. My ‘pile’ of stuff is growing outside of the quarter of a bedroom that I vowed I would keep it to. ;) So I better stop where I am on that. When it starts spilling out into the hallway, I’ll be banished from the house most likely.


4,830 posted on 03/16/2009 6:18:27 PM PDT by CottonBall
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To: CottonBall

>>>Oh, I know you wouldn’t tell us wrong! It’s only if I follow instructions wrong....<<<

LOL Now CB, you know I just couldn’t pass up the opportunity to give you a hard time...

Well, I got about a third of my 2014 firewood planted today... I made 500 cuttings and have planted 350 so far... I try to keep planting about 1,000 a year of the clones of hybrid poplars... While they are not the very best for firewood, they do have a pretty good heat output and they grow really fast... by 2014, the cuttings I planted today will be about 4”-5” in diameter and 30’ tall, so I won’t have to split wood, just cut, season and burn...

We burn less than a third of that - but I like to build up a backlog and also try to have enough for daughter and SIL to burn too, which leaves the balance for stockpile. Right now I have enough for next year already cut and under a shed seasoning really well. I have enough room there for about a 3 year supply.


4,842 posted on 03/16/2009 7:14:24 PM PDT by DelaWhere ("Without power over our own food, any notion of democracy is empty." - Frances Moore Lappe)
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