The Old Folks Home

[vehve]

Deb, for more heat you'll need to chop that firewood into smaller pieces. The thinner the wood, the more burning surface you can fit in there. (Enter inappropriate comment from Sam/Bam/Al)

 

[vehve]

Oh yeah, we took a step towards equal marriage rights legislature today. Soon gay marriage might be legal in Finland too. So far only civil unions have been allowed.

 

[perchie.girl]

Deb, for more heat you'll need to chop that firewood into smaller pieces. The thinner the wood, the more burning surface you can fit in there. (Enter inappropriate comment from Sam/Bam/Al)

I burn mostly Eucalyptus at least a year old or more. Cut by chainsaw but split by others.... Each piece of Eucalyptus is a branch from tree trimming. Therefore at least six to eight inches in diameter.... each of those are split into quarters. I have done the splitting in the past but right now the whole subject is Moot.

I have to say here its very dry year round even when its raining. Most of the year the humidity is around 15 percent dropping down to 5 percent for a month or two per year.

If and when I do go back to the house I wont be in shape to split wood I will be gathering loose wood from the property in the form of Redshank branches. They are roughly two inches in diameter and can be knocked off the Bush with a baseball bat. Believe me this is very very hard wood even though its small in diameter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenostoma_sparsifolium

deb

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Okay not gas but, my grandmother thought she was taking Pepto Bismol and instead drank some pink Calamine lotion. My mom thought she would die on the spot but, apart from coughing and throwing up pink - I don't think a doctor was called. Life was never dull at our house. But boy, did I wish it was. The stress was killing me.

1800-222-1222.

 

[sunflour]

True story: a friend of mine used Retin A on her face to reduce wrinkles…She had a habit of, ah, drinking a little excessively…While on vacation, she got a hemorrhoid and OMG mistakenly put the Retin A instead of Prep H on it…..

 

[perchie.girl]

1800-222-1222.

I take it thats poison information?

 

[Amberjem]

lol at these blunders..I can suggest never ever have the bengay next to the toothpaste and stumble in half asleep and try to brush your teeth

 

[perchie.girl]

True story: a friend of mine used Retin A on her face to reduce wrinkles…She had a habit of, ah, drinking a little excessively…While on vacation, she got a hemorrhoid and OMG mistakenly put the Retin A instead of Prep H on it…..

That ud Work....

conversly too....

 

[sunflour]

True story: a friend of mine used Retin A on her face to reduce wrinkles…She had a habit of, ah, drinking a little excessively…While on vacation, she got a hemorrhoid and OMG mistakenly put the Retin A instead of Prep H on it…..

Honest, I am not making this one up. Real life is funnier than movies.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I take it thats poison information?

Yup. That will take you to your local poison control center.

True story: a friend of mine used Retin A on her face to reduce wrinkles…She had a habit of, ah, drinking a little excessively…While on vacation, she got a hemorrhoid and OMG mistakenly put the Retin A instead of Prep H on it…..

I had bad acne as a kid. Dermatologist prescribed Retin-A. I slathered it on the first night, got up the next morning and stumbled out half asleep to the rest of the house (my sister was in the bathroom). We had a guest that had spent the night and he was sitting at the dinner table. I sat down, exchanged pleasantries, then headed off to take a shower and get dressed when I heard my sister vacate the bathroom.
Getting into the bathroom I glanced into the mirror and saw that the outer layer of skin was completely hanging off my face in many places.

I can't believe the guest didn't say anything. I never used it again.

I am still mortified, decades later.