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[drumstick diva]

sorry Penny, maybe you need steel tipped shoes or boots. Stuff like that happens to my sister.

 

[perchie.girl]

Same issues with spruce.

I use Eucalyptus... But havent a clue as to its rating amongst fire woods...
Its usually free if you want to cut it up yourself...

it has to be seasoned about a year .....

Burns hot.

deb

 

[chickadoodles]

Bunnylady it's good to see you on. I hope your family are all ok. Sorry you got damage. I hope all you animals are ok.

Would you please remind me the name of the website you use? I forgot and a friend wants to make a website for her dh business.

 

[chickadoodles]

Bunnylady sorry it got the corner of your house. I hope it's not to bad.

I hope your insurance covers all the damage.


I hate hurricanes. After Ivan and 4 others in one year was enough to last me a life time. I still have ptsd from it.

 

[chickadoodles]

Penny sorry about your toe.

 

[bruceha2000]

That's our inside/outside cat. That was his first trip out in several days

Cat? What cat?

I didn't say which way they were migrating. They might just be arriving here.

That was my point. Seems odd they would be showing up way down there when they won't start leaving here for many weeks. Maybe you have a year round population that is currently in your area.

All I have up here to burn is spruce... can't be worse than that.

Someone needs to plant a lot of hardwoods up there!

 

[chickadoodles]

Our Canadian geese stay here year round.

BL your cat is pretty. But he does show his attitude tward's all the mess. lol

 

[Latestarter]

https://www.almanac.com/content/best-firewood-heat-values-wood-burning-tips
https://www.firewood-for-life.com/eucalyptus-firewood.html

 

[CapricornFarm]

Waiting in the dentist's office. I feel an urge to flee!

 

[microchick]

@Bunnylady, sure glad the tree just clipped the corner of your house. It could have been so much worse. That tree has a sizable girth and unless you've worked with downed trees, you just don't appreciate how heavy that much wood is.

Yeah, every time I see a downed tree the first thing I think is 'Fire Wood'. We usually have one large old growth oak go down periodically or simply die. Since felling trees is so dangerous we are always glad when Mother Nature gifts us one by putting it on the ground for us.

We are having some Internet problems at the moment. Two weeks ago we upgraded our Hughes system to Gen 5 having worked with Gen 4 for the past 5 years. For the last week or so it keeps knocking itself off line and getting it to reconnect is a lesson in patience. Yesterday we called Hughes and DH must have been on the phone for two hours with them trying to troubleshoot the problem. For some reason it's dropping 10-60% of the data packets somewhere between the modem and the satellite and they can't figure out why although they suspect that the dish has lost it's connectivity with the satellite. So they are heading this way Thursday morning sometime to work with the dish and satellite and in the meantime we are playing Internet roulette, checking our connectivity and if it says 100% working like the devil to deal with emails and forums before it goes down again.

Internet....geesh remember when we didn't rely on it so much? All of our news weather and gossip came from the TV and telephone. Now we just have separation anxiety when we don't have our 'connectivity'.

Yes we have tried the wheelchair for Dingo. He is such a strong dog that the first time he realized he could get up and go, he charged off and rolled it on an incline before we could stop him. Since then he doesn't want much to do with it. DH made him a little scooter board for in the house by taking a square of plywood and putting swivel wheels on it. He likes it fine.

Penny, toes don't like having heavy things dropped on them nor as I have learned do they like it when you plow them into heavy objects.