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I get that once in a while too. Usually when I forget to latch the lower blower door tight after cleaning out the ash. Or when those tempermental aquastats stick. While I just use water and conditioner, something like that would be useful to let me know when it has happened so I know to check...

You found a dead mulberry??? I didn't think that was possible. It takes a good two years to dry and my splits were sending up shoots from the woodpile! :dunno:

If you only use propane for the gas range and your climate is mild, a smaller tank is fine. But if your backup furnace is propane, in colder climates the furnace will suck off the gas vapor in the smaller tank faster than the liquid fuel can revaporize. I talked with my propane company about...

I don't know about BTU's but they make great wood for smoking food. Similar to apple and other fruitwood.

Depends on what you have for an OWB. For instance, I have a Johnson type which has a rod you pull that slides a diverter plate inside the unit. Normally flue gases flow from the back of my unit toward the front over heat exchanging pipes, then up and back again to the rear and up the chimney. By...

Yeah, but the Stihl still has those "things on the side of the bar!" :hmm3grin2orange:

And the used is more expensive too. :confused:

LOL, that's a good'n. Reminds me of a similar story that ends up with the Indian admitting they make their predictions based upon the size of 'the white man's woodpile'.

The reason bees go for the eyes is instinct. Bears are natural predators of bees and the bees know that, because of the heavy fur, the most vulnerable place is the eyes. The also relate to dark clothing because bears are dark. This is the reason beekeepers wear light or white clothing. Also...

Just be aware that most ground bee nests are renovated rodent holes, which means there is usually a back door!

Two things I've found... First, one time I snuck up on a ground nest at night in the daylilies once. Turned on the flashlight to pinpoint it. I found it alright. As soon as the light hit the guard bees, they were after me. It took 50 yards before I got enough wits about me to drop the...

I'm also beekeeper, and my advice is to buy or borrow a headnet. Bee suits are really just coveralls any way so not necessary. Bees instinctively go for the eyes so the headnet is most important. Anyway, put on coveralls or heavy clothes, boots, and leather gloves, and the headnet. Duct tape the...

They've got to be about 4' deep in MN right? I can't imagine how driving over them could damage them. I drive over mine all the time.

Sure looks like ash to me too.

With all the humidity we have here, no relief from mowing. I should say no relief from GROWING. The mowing has to wait because the grass is wet all day, every day. Gonna have to have my neighbor come up and bale it pretty soon!

MmmmMM! You betcha! Especially in Russian Tea Cakes.

I'm not saying that they NEVER eat dry wood, but that they vastly prefer moist conditions to NEST in. Also they will have small satellite colonies away from the main nest. Generally if you find a colony of carpenter ants in your house, you will find water has been leaking in there also. And I...

A lot of times they will be in the house but not NESTING there. Also they will live in insulation and other things, but they like it damp. They will not chew or burrow in dry solid wood. When I was building my addition, I also found them in it. But the exterminator showed me where they were...

Carpenter ants will only live in wet rotting wood. They will not affect the good wood. If you have carpenter ants in your walls, you already have a water infiltration problem that they found first.

For what it's worth, my doc doesn't want me to take ibuprofen because he said they are finding that it's causing more scar tissue to form. Scar tissue on the inside can cause more range of motion issues later on in the healing. I'm normally a big ibuprofen user but have had to switch to...