Aw man, I wanna be crunchy peanut butter and homemade strawberry jelly.
Cool beans. What are you using, peanut oil? I used WD40 on outside but being unprotected from rain and sun it is showing signs of rust on the firebox.
What is the optimum temp?
I mentioned the Boy Scouts put flags on the street. Starting with us there were 16 on either side running down the street Saturday. Couldn’t enjoy them Monday though when the drought-buster hit. 4" yesterday, 2 so far today and rain forecast for the next several daze in a row… yoohoo! I hope it does those Hill Country lakes some good.
I’m a cinnamon roll.
Sah-dog is being annoying today.
He woke me up again to go out. I put him out and he stayed out for almost an half hour. That is long for him. I let him in and he wanted right back out.
By then Sah-son was up so I asked him to keep an eye on the dog and listen for him to want in.
So Sah-son lets him in, the dog walks around a bit and asks to go back out, but this time he wants to go out on the deck. Let him out, he takes a turn around the deck and wants back in. He wants to be fed, so he gets his food with some yogurt. That’s not good enough so he gets a pizza crust. Then he wants in my room, nope, no he doesn’t want in my room, he wants a drink, he wants in my room again, nope, no he doesn’t want that right now either.
Back and forth, round and round, he doesn’t know what he wants, or he does know but isn’t communicating it well.
With the talk of putting markers and pencils into the wash, guess who left a Magic Marker in their pocket, then put said pants into the wash along with other innocent garments? As if they make any other kind, it was a permanent marker.
hint: it wasn’t me
I got notice that Sah-sons health insurance expires on May 31. I don’t know if I can add him to my policy, how much it will cost or what I have to do to get insurance for him. I’ve been on hold for 27 minutes to ear blasting classical music. I had to turn the volume all the way down and it’s still too loud and I expect that when a human does get on the line I won’t be able to hear them.
Basic vegie for the insides - even the firebox. Rubbed on really thin coats of motor oil for all the outsides. After that it just sits uncovered and used all year round. The last one was like 10-12 years old and other than the firebox it looked great. The firebox (especially if you use it in the snow a lot) rusts and you can’t do much about it other than get some oil on the active rust to kill it.
I’ll run it up to about 350 for an hour and then treat it as a smoking situation – 200 for about 4-6 hours.
Well, if I wanted to covert the pile to ash, then that would probably be a good start.
There are three types of decomposition. Believe it or not, a pile can decompose at 50-70 degrees, although it’s very slow and takes awhile. That’s the type that usually takes place in piles that you leave with no maintenance, such as over the winter.
The hot decomposing should last for a couple of days at around 120-140F (extreme ranges), and only lasts for a couple of days at best. This is the decomposition that kills off little microscopic beasties and seeds. I rarely get it to last more than a day.
Sorry, I have read nothing yet, and am about to take off to run mad errands with my auntie. However it seems that I have a rather interesting story which I thought I had shared with you all, but apparently I have not. So unless someone else has dibs I will offer now to post next week’s OP. It is a story, and longish, taking place in the village of Larsen Bay, Ak. and involves close encounters with bears of the omg-I-just-dumped-in my-drawers variety, so if you wanna hear it, please signify!
kaiwik, this weekend I was watching Buying Alaska, The Alaska show about the Kilchers (Last Frontier Alaska?) and one about Guiding Alaska where they hunted Griz on Kodiak and his gun jammed after he wounded a large male. Wild West Alaska (?) about the Anchorage gunshop owner wasn’t on… bummer. That Phred is a cutie.
