Old Blue rides again.
Let me just say that mentally you can turn the clock back decades by driving a 1990 Mazda pickup listening to John Denver songs on a cassette tape. So my current commute has me living in the past and “… humming some old song he wrote…” and other gems for the rest of the day.
A small disaster. Sending in the robotic cleanup squad.
Do you ever wonder how traditions began? On a cold, dark night, long, long ago…
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(This is basically a commercial, though I am not being paid for it.)
The natural life can be wonderful. But sometimes it can suck. The glass on our wood stove door gets seriously gunked up with creosote, and that stuff is a real pain in the elbow grease to get clean. About every two weeks I roll up my sleeves, clean the ashes out of the stove, then set to on the dense, incredibly tough brown-to-black stains on the glass left by burning wood. It can take half an hour or more to scrub that stuff off and have clean glass again. And if I let it go longer, it can take an hour.
If you’ve had trouble with creosote on your wood stove glass, this post is for you.
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How many Ph.D.s does it take to change a light bulb?
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