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We planted our own trees 15 years ago and now, we cut, split and dry our own firewood, it's a lot of work, though it is an extra pleasure to sit in front of suc
by stormdennis 4y ago
We planted our own trees 15 years ago and now, we cut, split and dry our own firewood, it's a lot of work, though it is an extra pleasure to sit in front of such a fire
I can see why people stopped doing it.
- SantalBlush 4y agoAnd even with today's tools, cutting and splitting firewood is still very dangerous.
- stormdennis 4y agoCorrect and hard on your back! I do get a kick out of it though. Makes me feel like a real man in a way my sedentary day job does not.
- stew-j 4y agoMy father taught me how to chop wood in the early seventies at the age of 8 in the remote territory of suburban Connecticut. More dangerous was the wasps whose nest I disturbed near the wood-pile, and my face swelled up like a balloon. We didn't call an apiary to humanely remove them back then, my dad used kerosene to burn the nest.
- stew-j 4y agoAlthough some of their time was freed up by not having to diagnose issues with CI pipelines on the cloud, or writing meta-manager code to tame Slurm :)