I stumbled on to an interesting tidbit of information today.  Mariska Hagatay, who plays Olivia Benson on the show 'Law And Order SVU', was in the car when her mother (Jayne Mansfield) was killed when she rear ended a semi truck.  This triggered action by the NTSB.  Since then, 1967, semi trailers were required to put re-enforced steel bumpers on the back of the trailers to help prevent cars from going under the trailer. Thus, preventing serious injury or death from decapitation.  It is now called the 'Mansfield Bar'.

I had a little practice in the art of persuasion just now.  I asked Mama, how about something different?

There was one catch, she had to go get it.

I went to get some more firewood a little while ago, the guy saw me from inside his building.  He had a $20 load in a wheel barrow inside so it was dry.  Dry, is a relative term. I really shouldn't be burning this guy's wood. It's not seasoned, high moisture content. It's difficult to start a fire with it, it coats my flue pipe with dangerous deposits. The pieces are usually too big to maintain a hot fire.

It's so damned convenient, I don't have to take too many steps and that's a big deal to me.  I've been using my maul (yellow handle) to split the wood to a more useful size.  That is causing me more pain also.

I got my little 'Earthquake' electric splitter out of the shed! And yes, I'm a picture taking fool.

Also, I hope you and your bro had a very Merry Christmas!

Happy New Year Thor!!!

...for some odd reason, your life-changing experience just had me hearing this song in my head...and I bet it applies, especially the final line...

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Glad you are back in 'The Land of the Living'.

Being the man of the household, here at the aka ranch, can be dangerous! I bought this splitter years ago after a huge wind storm knocked down a lot of trees on a lot we owned in Waushara county.  I'm well aware of what can go wrong.  I'm positive that I injured my hip while working up there, great investment. Huh?

 Anyway, back to my point!  I got stabbed in the hand, it didn't leave a splinter but it did bleed! And finally, this scared me!  If the logs aren't cut at the proper 90 degree angle, it can cause problem while trying to split it. There is a convex point on the ram to keep the piece of wood in the same place. The controls are in a place that helps keep you out of the way of flying wood.  TODAY! This one particular piece of wood...It went flying straight up in the air!  The ceiling in the garage is probably close to ten feet, there are the rails for the garage doors and some fluorescent lights I've added.  Not to mention Mama's Edge sitting right there.  It seemed like 5 seconds, this hunk of wood lands right next to me after hitting nothing.

 

Yeah, I've heard all this referred to as "the new racism", "the new puritanism", etc.

 

 

Precisely what it is and RAPIDLY gearing us up for a 'blast from the past' (which I sure hope is not another church in Birmingham, or some flavor of Kent State). Today's overly-proud and even more ignorant have absolutely NO idea of where they are pushing society...

We are going to have a house guest for the next 10 days, she's a great old dog. I guess she is almost completely deaf now. We got a email from Mama's friend about caring for the dog.  This is from the last time she was here.