TheBanyanTree: Cold moon

[auntiesash]

Nice post.  Made me feel content and warm.

I would call it a "saw chain sharpener" and I would take it to the shop.  My
brother is a professional chainsaw carver, and the only time he sharpens his
own is if he HAS to during competition.

Potential blood loss+irritation+not-getting-it-just-right >
a-few-bucks+drive-to-town

-sash

On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Dale M.Parish <parishdm at att.net> wrote:

> Last week, I cut up and hauled home a tree that someone had dropped behind
> one of the rent houses.  Not sure who did it, nor why they did it, since
> they didn't cut it up, but it was a laurel oak-- good firewood-- and it
> hadn't been cut long enough to be too dried out for firewood, so I cut the
> top and limbs into stovewood and the trunk into backlogs and brought it
> home.  Since I hadn't gotten the rails on which I stack backlogs put into
> place from their summer storage, I just dropped it off in the back yard near
> the back door.
>
> Yesterday, while I was using the tractor, I fished the rails out and put
> them into place, but didn't get any of the backlogs stacked onto them.  I
> did, however, manage to split a few of the chunks into stovewood, so
> tonight, I had enough to start the first fire of the season.  All last week,
> Cindy wanted me to start a fire for her, but she was under doctor's orders
> not to lift, and I knew as soon as the fire burned down, she'd be wanting to
> lift more wood onto the fire.  Didn't make me popular, but kept us both out
> of trouble.  Wednesday, the doctor released her to be able to resume light
> lifting, but by then, the temperature was back up to shirt-sleeves.
>
> Today blew in a cold norther, and it's supposed to freeze tonight--
> certainly fire weather-- so I drug in a back log and got a small fire going.
>  It's not much for heat yet-- the fireplace bricks haven't had long enough
> to warm up good, but it keeps the cat happy, and with the wireless and the
> MacBook, I can sit here in the living room in front of the fire, drink hot
> chocolate and write-- something that I haven't done in way too long.
>
> Tomorrow, we'll head into town to do our Christmas shopping.  Tuesday, I've
> got to claim for my own so I can get loose to go do my shopping for her.
>  Could shop on line, I guess, but I've always liked to go into town and
> wander through the people-filled places, watching the stories unfold as I
> dredge for gift ideas.  Have a few ideas that I need to check out-- last
> time she hinted for something, before I took delivery on it, she'd bought
> one on her own.
>
> Tonight, while we were cooking supper, she reached for a tomato that has
> been in a hanging basked for a while, but still looked fresh, and sliced it
> open.  Every seed in the tomatoe had sprouted!  I've never seen one do
> that-- it looked like bean sprouts stuffed tightly into each cavity of the
> tomato.  I didn't see how that would hurt it-- we eat bean sprouts-- but she
> didn't want to eat it, so the poor little sprouts are drying out now and I
> guess will become bird feed tomorrow.
>
> I really need to get a chainsaw sharpener.  Or should that be chainsaw
> chain sharpener?  I've gotten one side of my saw pitched wrong, and it's not
> cutting straight in large timber-- curves to the left.  Tried to re-pitch it
> once, but still haven't gotten the pitch just right.  Maybe I should tell
> Santa Claus.  Maybe I should just change chains and take the other one into
> town to be sharpened.
>
> Hugs,
> Dale
>
> --
> Dale M. Parish
> 628 Parish RD
> Orange TX 77632
>
>
>
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