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Harvested as part of thinning to reduce fire danger.
$0.75 per board foot.
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“Experience keeps a dear school but fools will learn in no other”
-Benjamin Franklin
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Feral Kittens
I glanced out the window this morning to see five feral kittens examining my woodshed. I carried the first load to the deck this past week, so for the first time, the woodshed is accessible. It makes a dry place, sheltered from the wind and rain, where the five will probably cuddle together and shelter Read more
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This Year’s Pig Story
Admittedly, this year’s pig story isn’t nearly as good as last year’s pig story (no coats) but the fact that we have a yearly pig story is interesting. This year’s saga (told via facebook) went something along the lines of: ‘Oh, interesting pig!’‘Neat type. New to the area. Safely at home behind fence’…sometime later…‘Who’s pig Read more
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Our Inflation Hurts Zimbabwe
For the last 5 years before I retired, I made a point of adding a Zimbabwe million dollar bill to the card, with the sentiment “Everyone should retire a millionaire.” I have seen 100 trillion dollar notes – though they quit printing them in 2009. The thing about paper currency is that it doesn’t cost Read more
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Off Again, On Again
Trego School went to distance learning last week- and resumed in person classes this week. More or less the same as last time; a shift to distance learning following the Health and Safety Plan (which is considerably longer and less readable than the first version of it that came out over a year ago), with Read more
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No Second Amendment in China
Nail guns, modified to shoot 22 bullets, are an alternative in the people’s republic where the right to keep and bear arms doesn’t exist. Human ingenuity in overcoming the gun-banners. I think the picture is of guns seized by some sort of police (I can’t read the Chinese). The whole story is here. I do Read more
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How do we Heat our Homes? And for how much?
According to surveys conducted by the US Census, the breakdown in Trego is as follows: Electricity: Between 18% and 44% Bottled, tank, or LP gas: Between 1% and 20.4% All other Fuels (including wood): Between 44% and 68% Those are estimates- and fairly broad at that, but it looks like about half the people in Read more
Trego's Mountain Ear 