Shamelessly pilfered from @neil-gaiman over on Bluesky:
“First of all, read this article:
and then you'll want to spread the word and raise support for this GoFundMe:
Helping people stay warm in the winter—and helping the helpers—is the right thing to do. Kick in if you can, darlings.
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Old School Heat
I know how much firewood is in a cord.
I lived through both Arab oil embargoes. I was in high school the first time those benevolent wonderful camel f—kers turned down the screws. My parents were those resilient kids from the Great Generation. I saw them swing into action by shrugging their shoulders and installing a wood stove. And—get this—they didn’t buy firewood. Armed with chainsaws, axes, peaveys, wedges and mauls, they went to the family property in the mountains to fell trees, buck logs and split the bolts with their own hands.
Here in the Old Pueblo home heating is not much of a concern; we are on the other end of that spectrum. When I decided to get firewood last winter I just wanted enough for a fire pit. (Our winter evenings beg for time outdoors around a fire.) So I was not planning on getting much. A few wheelbarrow loads? Maybe? But… A friend pointed out that we live in unstable times. Why not, he said, go ahead and get a full cord?
Quite logical, Captain. Besides, with my SO gone, I had no adult supervision last winter. So I ordered up a cord. And since I am made of far less stern stuff than my parents, I ordered it split (mostly) and dried.
When it arrived it was a lot. Like I said, I know how much wood is in a cord. I just didn’t expect a cord. Most firewood companies sell “cords” that are less than the full 128 cubic feet. Sometimes far less. Sometimes their “cord” is a face cord, half of a full cord. The company I chose delivered 120 cubic feet.
Ack! We had an hour to move nearly a full cord. My son and I moved it from the curb with a wheelbarrow and a hand truck. We hastily stacked it, guarding the ends with piles of landscaping blocks. (And I am using the word stack quite loosely.) But it was going to need “done proper.” And that was my most recent project. The photo above is the finished frame. My wood is now off the ground. It is out of the way of a future tortoise den. And it gets plenty of air for when I have green wood delivered.
The winter passed without having to install a wood stove. If that keeps up we have fire pit fuel for a few years.
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Fall-Autumn Musings 2022
iPhoneXR Hipstamatic Photography
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Lowy Lens, US1776 Film, No Flash
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Axe day, at the Gransfors Bruk forge in Sweden
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Natural Stone Pavers - Front Yard
Inspiration for a summertime front yard stone water fountain landscape with partial sun tolerance.
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the amount of games made with unity though...
night in the woods, ori, cuphead, untitled goose game, hiveswap, hollow knight and silksong, pokemon bdsp, pokemon go, fate: grand order, fire emblem engage, genshin impact, doom (switch port only), ultrakill, among us, yugioh duel links, yugioh master duel...
so many games Will be impacted it's not even funny. Fuck Unity.
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