PP, the mention of blubber and HRC in the same sentence just turned on the giggle switch. :-) As for the lighter fluid, possibly these will be vanishing from the landscape soon. Book matches are fading (as are the boxed matches) TPTB have deemed cigarettes bad and no longer attractive. *let’s avoid unhealthy* There will be no use for lighters, unless is to start the bonfire at The Burning Man event
Interesting that....just experienced an afternoon of retro tv game shows. Persons on camera, guests and hosts, thought nothing of lighting up and puffing away at various pauses in the conversation.
Ha! I was thinking of lamp oil and blubber. You know, it used to be one of the leading exports from New England. I read that whale oil was of the highest quality.
As for the cigarettes, have we not substituted cell phones for cigarettes? Both are addictive. Both can adversely affect the health of body or mind.
We lost a tree in the backyard to Hurricane Irma, but it was one of those softwood trees — not like the oaks I lived under in the Poconos.
But imagine, we must have been 250 miles from the center of Irma(northwest Georgia) and the winds were strong enough that far away. Massive storm in terms of size, if not sheer wind velocity at the center.