MAGA is bad for your health.

It might fool an ICE brute into thinking nobody’s in the car…

Speak for yourself. Who says I’m paying taxes?

“90% of politicians give the other 10% a bad reputation” - Henry Kissinger

Just heating - and as a supplemental source of heat too: the main heating system is geothermal. But this is an old house with a fiendishly efficient stove. So I burn a few logs in there every day and it keeps the entire house nice and warm without the heat pump doing much.

Dude… If you think lost toes are interesting, you should visit the diabetes wing in any hospital: it’s so depressingly common the Dull Men’s Club should have a dedicated section just for that 🙂

Everybody’s circumstances are different.

I think that particular piece of medical wisdom comes from the fact that most people who lose toes - big or small - get there because of diabetes, meaning they’re sedentary, often overweight, and have diminished feeling in their feet.

I didn’t have that problem: my feet were - mechanically anyway - fully functional, and I’m quite active. so I had little trouble adapting to no toes. After two month, life was mostly back to normal.

I do have a few balance issues - mostly leaning forward in certain situations: if I’m not careful, I will plant my face. And the weirdest side effect for me is that my feet are less stable left to right: it feels like walking on a log lengthwise all the time. That was totally unexpected.

I’m not doing any of that. I have enough dry wood to last me 2 years, so even if I do nothing, this lot will be dry by the time I need to use it.

I lost them to a congenital disease. It’s very boring. My only claim to fame is that, unlike most people who get their feet shortened, it wasn’t diabetes 🙂

Not kidding 🙂

So was it to create a private skating rink? 🙂

Yeah, the bounce is scary. Def. a steel toed boots kind of job.

Way ahead of you here: I have no toes 🙂

Actually I would wear steel toed boots if I could, but I can’t because the edge of the steel cup quickly starts digging into my funny bits: the front of all my full-size shoes very quickly collapses when I start wearing them and the crease it creates - or the steel thing in safety shoes - becomes unpleasant, if not painful.

So I wear plain old boots. But I do have a large axe gash in front of one of them, and I’m sure glad there was nothing underneath to go spend hours at the ER for.

No termites. And in fact, I have 1.5 cords in a wooden shed behind the cottage, and maybe half a cord in the wooden garage 🙂

What good does that do? The water would refreeze instantly, and then all the driveway would be good for is running a Zamboni on it, as it would become slippery to death.

There was about 3 cords on the ground (7 trees) and I’m not half-way done. So maybe one. Probably less 🙂

Ooh that’s a good idea, that. I’ll do that for the next batch. Thanks!

Neither actually 🙂

I have no idea what kind of axe I have, but it’s very old, quite heavy, and the blade is straight and 2 inches max. It’s not easy to deal blows accurately with such a small head, and when it bounces off knotty wood, it tends to be seriously scary. But there’s nothing better to split whole trunk logs.

The axe was in the house when I bought it. I always thought I should get a lighter one with a larger curved blade and a little less lively, but laziness got the better of me, and now I’m used to that one. It’s just a matter of concentrating when I’m using it.

Nothing like chopping wood to clear your head. Well, maybe shifting snow with a snow shovel…

More wood to chop tomorrow…

At least the trees know how to spell forest…