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Archive for October 22nd, 2008
Palin Fun in the Oval Office
Posted by Ted Hopton on October 22, 2008
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Me Make Fire
Posted by Ted Hopton on October 22, 2008
I feel I am getting back to my primitive roots. I am learning to use fire to keep warm, just as human beings learned to do so many thousands of years ago. I am trying to heat my house with wood as much as possible this year. Since I work from home, it’s not really much trouble to get up now and then to put another log in the wood stove.
In fact, the image of Bob Cratchit keeps coming to mind, when I notice that my hands are cold and debate whether it’s time for another log or not. Don’t want to waste my wood (it’s quite pricey, in fact), but I need to be comfortable to work effectively, too. I can bundle up in layers, sure, but gloves don’t work with keyboards.
I don’t have the best stove, either. It’s certainly not airtight, so it’s not as efficient as it should be. I’m learning how to regulate the temperature with it. At first I roasted the place by putting too many logs in. They just burn hotter, but not any longer. Better to stick with just a couple of logs and keep adding another when the fire dies down enough. I only have to light the fire once, in the morning, and after that I just keep adding logs when needed and the embers start the flames up.
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You Know You Have Dead Mice When…
Posted by Ted Hopton on October 22, 2008
the D-Con you stored under the kitchen sink is gone. I had two packages of D-Con still in the box under the sink, but when I went to get them out I found that mice had chewed through the box and eaten all of the poison.
Boy, that stuff must really smell and taste good to them. As my landlord says, the weather is turning colder and the mice are seeing my little cottage as awfully cozy.
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