Firewood...Better than Gold in the Vault!

coopslave wrote:I kinda get the whole sister wives thing, but I don't quite like to SHARE that much.  Just want somebody to do all the yucky work!   

I agree with you there!

I always say that the sister wife thing is a really good idea, the only part that doesn't make sense is the husband. Take him out, and what you have is a group of single mothers who help each other out with childcare.

authenticfarm wrote:

coopslave wrote:I kinda get the whole sister wives thing, but I don't quite like to SHARE that much.  Just want somebody to do all the yucky work!   

I agree with you there!

I always say that the sister wife thing is a really good idea, the only part that doesn't make sense is the husband. Take him out, and what you have is a group of single mothers who help each other out with childcare.

Sounds a lot like what my Grandmother described when their husbands were away to the war.  Groups of women pulling together helping each other out.

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I love how this thread started about chopped wood and has settled into a conversation about polygamy. LOL! Love it!

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It's all related.

Firewood. Cooking. Polygamy.

Related. Somehow.  

uno wrote:It's all related.

Firewood. Cooking. Polygamy.

Related. Somehow.  

The connection is this

Firewood- more than 1 piece of wood
Cooking- more than 1 ingredient
Polygamy- more than 1 wife!

I think if you're related to your polygamist wives, that's frowned upon. Even if she beats you with a stick of firewood.

authenticfarm wrote:I think if you're related to your polygamist wives, that's frowned upon. Even if she beats you with a stick of firewood.

But only during meals.

Tara, very sorry to hear about Stoggar's passing. You haven't had an easy time with your dogs lately.

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Rest in peace, Stoggars. Sad day. Dreary rain. Up onto that hill. Back down from the hill, mourning, then go warm by a fire. I am sure you and Husband did this, or maybe warmed by working hard, thinking about the warm fire days. You miss old dog, but thus now in that place where the pooch can run free again, chasing the bunnies over hill and over dale. I have an old dog too, I know his time soon comes. Have a beautiful day, CynthiaM.

Sad. Got me to thinking about Duster, my ACD. I had him put down a year ago. They take a piece of your heart with you.

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HigginsRAT wrote: 
It stopped raining and let us bury her up on our little hill looking to the West.

Her mind will be back right with her and she can stop circling/wandering and run straight after the bun buns she is never suppose to catch.  Lots of spring time strawberries (she showed the other dogs how to harvest these sweet lil' delights) always to forage for.
Tara

Ah, my nose twitched and then my eyes teared. What a beautiful thought conjured up in my mind, as I thought of Stoggars showing her other dogs how to harvest the sweet berries, beautiful, as you said, she now can fulfill this dream even more easily, with strawberries and bun buns, that critter that she will never catch. have a wonderful day, CynthiaM.

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Tara,

So sorry to hear about your dog. That's always so hard. Couldn't have lived at a better place though. I'm sure that was much appreciated.

Lovely burial site as well.

Will you ever get another pup? Please accept our condolences.

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Oh the last picture in the last post. That brown dog, that red tractor, that brown hunk o' wood with the two arms up, holding the hunk o' wood in the middle of the "y" with chains. Glory be. What a most beautiful picture. Many times I have seen that picture of the, well, I am going to call it a yoke, don't know why, but maybe you called it that, maybe someone else did, or I am making that up, I don't know, but I love that hunk o' wood. Seen so many pictures with it in the picture and I always love to see it. Is that a black bucket that is on the ground beside it? Looks like it to me, maybe a stock bucket, you know the kind of soft rubbery ones that are rather flat, heavy and oh so wonderful. I love these kinds of buckets, we have a good many around here and boy are they sweet! thank the lucky stars this man can now do some stuff that is not so strenuous, like play on the tractor, hurray! Have a beautiful day, CynthiaM.

I'm liking where this thread is going. I would like another wige to split and stack all the wood here too.
We are fortunate in that the neighbour usually drags over some trees with his skidder into our yard, so one step in the process is skipped.

that would be wife. Apparently the thought scared me so much I couldn't even type it.

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Oh my wife stacks too, even after a back operation. She had a disck replacement not long ago. But I can't stop her from helping by stacking while I'm at work all day lol.
I wanted another wife to split, because I split aboutb12 cords this year. a little shy of the usual amount, but like Unos hubby, we don't use a splitter either. So I could use another wife to do that chore.

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Tara,

I love those Big burls, always wondered where they came from. Just a hunt and peck situation I gather. Plus lots of Luck.
They really look great, at your place.





Hillbilly, you'll have to build a splitter. That's what my hubby did when we burned wood for quite a few years. He got tired of hand splitting.