Wanted: A full-time wiener peeler

Toronto Sun ^ | February 26, 2011 | Mike Strobel

[Monkey Face]

No. And I can’t tell them, even if they are directly involved.

[Monkey Face]

I can appreciate Mr. ColdOne’s wishes. I think I would feel the same way.

[Darksheare]

I couldn’t.
I nervously laughed it off as the deliriums of a wandering mind.
Fevered musings, wild imagination, excetera.
If time travel were possible, I would go back and change that day regardless of the consequences to myself.

[Darksheare]

Ouch, yes.

If you can, it may be possible to melt the snow and thaw the ground using kerosene or diesel, whichever is cheaper.
But you need to thaw a wider area than you will be digging.

[Darksheare]

But the flipside is that it takes forever to do without having flaming floating liquid flow through the yard.
[MAPP gas burns-o-matic cylinders help, but are impractical as they are small and expensive.]

[fanfan]

Well then, what’s the use of it?

[sionnsar]

Darn this sketch has faded.
I didn’t spray it with fixative, and the paper itself apparently isn’t archival acid free.
I’ll have to find some way to cheat.

If it's creepy I don't want to see it. But I have recovered (somewhat) scanned faded materials using the GIMP (think Photoshop) and use of brightness curves.

[Darksheare]

Darn nuisance in my experience.

[NicknamedBob]

There’s a fair chance that beneath all that snow the earth has been warming a bit. Snow is a good insulator.

Consider doing a test dig to check the soil conditions.

Another possibility, after setting up a temporary morgue in the garage or shed, is to make a “cold frame” as one would for setting out plants.

With any sunshine at all, the glass and insulated temporary structure will warm the soil enough to get the job done. I have a lot of pets keeping long watch on the hillside.

[null and void]

SOMETIMES it does keep one out of trouble.

[NicknamedBob]

"Darn nuisance in my experience."

If you have a color scanner that is big enough for the sketch, you can tinker with the color palette after a scan, to minimize the discolorations.

I managed to salvage a document with a terrible ink-stain in that manner.

[Darksheare]

The scanner needs some help.
I’ll have to use the missus scanner and her laptop if she’ll let me.

[Monkey Face]

Dunno. I didn’t ask for it. But you can imagine how painful it is for me to know and be helpless. Worse yet, when it happens, I fall into a very deep sleep. No matter where I am. I’ve even done it behind the wheel of a vehicle.

If I knew something dire would happen to you, would you want me to tell you? Knowing it was inevitable?

[Monkey Face]

Off to bed.

[sionnsar]

G’night den!

[Darksheare]

Pleasant dreams, may no gakthraggit bother you while you dream.

[ColdOne]

A neighbor called said she would help in the morning. So the plan is to try to bury her tomorrow. Thanks for the melting idea. We snow blow our yard and the sun hits it every morning the area we have picked out. No power or septic lines either.

[Darksheare]

If you do use the melt method, keep in mind you will have burned dirt that won’t grow grass worth beans for awhile unless ou mix in some stuff from a garden shop.
The melt will burn the nutrients off and leave sterilized bits behind.
So come spring you’ll have to mix in various stuff and reseed the grass, but at this point with frozen ground you’ll be doing the reseeding in spring anyway after digging no matter what.
Not certain the ground composition near you, so you’d have ot check with the garden shop for what you’d need.

[ColdOne]

Thanks. No lawn.

[Darksheare]

Ah, you don’t have to worry about burned dirt then.