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bjrogg:
Very nice.
YosemiteBen:
Over August 6th and 7th, I hosted my 9th Knap-In. Smaller group for a variety of reasons but an awesome time all around. Had a big fire fairly close at one mile a way for a few days, The Oak Fire on Inciweb, so far, sop good. Glad to have you all here!
BowEd:
Canned a few batches of our homemade V8 juice.I call it V8 juice with a kick.It's got peppers and onions in it.
Got the wood split for the 2023-2024 season too.A good 3 cord sitting there of osage,hickory,and honey locust.I keep a year ahead to let the wood dry good over 15 to 16 months before burning it.It keeps the kreosote down in the chimney burning good dry wood.
One tier for 1 winter and another for the following winter.I'll stack the pile next to this tier.I bring a wheel barrow full into the house every 3 to 4 days during the winter.You can see what happens if the wood is just thrown in there on a pile.The posts will bend in time from the pressure.Staking it rick rack style also takes advantage of every square foot of space under that lean to too.
Finished up stacking the other tier the other day.Takes around 8 hours to stack 3 cord.
Plenty of warm weather yet to get my deer hides brain tanned also before deer season.
Eric Krewson:
I glued up some osage billets that actually match and were side by side in the log. I have a bunch of osage billets that were once matched and marked. Moving to a new house, shuffling the pile left me with 60 billets of unknown origin for the most part, osage aged 20 years and dark are impossible to match back up.
Eric Krewson:
This time of year, I always have some tomato plants starting to die that still have a lot of green tomatoes on them. When I fry squash and okra, I like to put green tomatoes in the mix. I dehydrate and vacuum seal my excess green tomatoes to use later in my cooking. When I cook with them I rehydrate them in a bowl of water, bread them and fry them with my squash and okra.
Severn trays of cut up tomatoes will only make a handful of pieces once dried.
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