Babyfan's 9th Annual Pickems Contest - Weekly Results and Year to Date

haha, both of mine fight each other a few times a week. they're ready for a tag-team match !

 

I can see it now. A pay-per-view event on Animal Planet. We'll make millions !!!!!!

 

Cat fighting? Pay Per View? You guys are going to get the Vick treatment for sure.

 

what? a second chance and a QB job with the Eagles?

I'm an animal lover and dog fighting is barbaric. Just very cruel. I hate all animal abuse and neglect.

 

OK. It's 8 PM (pst) here on July 4th. It's not dark for another hour yet. so no fireworks going off.

So I'm sitting in the house watching TV.

Boy's and girls ???




I'm NOT lying !!!






I just saw an add on TV for …………







wait for it …..……..







Your not going to believe this ……………….










THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL !!!!!!!!!!!





Anyone else seen this ?????

 

Thursday Night Football???

Last night was Wednesday night. What kind of crazy operation do you have going on SoCal that you can randomly screw with the universe like this?

I think we need a medic.

 

No

No

No

If I had the ability to "randomly screw with the universe". I'd have done it years ago. And I would have a 5 or 6 year winning streak on your game right now.

I was just watching TV.

Now, I admit,,, I had an adult beverage ,,,,,,, or two.

But I saw what I saw !!!!!!

Pre season doesn't start for another month !!!!

No Medic needed here.

Maybe a yoga instructor from Toronto ???

Bwhahahahaha !!

I don't think so !!!!!!!!!!

I"m just as loud and obnoxious as I have always been !!!!!!

I'm fine !!!!!

Baby ??

Thank You for your concern.

 

Damn it's HOT here. 107 degrees. That's 41.6 for you people living on the frozen tundra. The good news is that the humidity is only around 30%. I've been to Florida and Illinois where they get 80-85 degrees but 70-80 % humidity.

I'll take this. I've said it before. How do you people live like that ????????

 

We've had two weeks of temps over 95 F. The humidity here is close to 100%. Not being faint of heart I chose to dress in long pants, long sleeve shirt, work gloves, boots and a mosquito hat to drag logs and branches around yesterday for 2 hours. Then I stacked wood for another hour. I was pretty warm when I got into the house and thankful, deeply thankful for every glass of water I chugged.

Hot? I love it!!!

 

Water ?? Yeah,,, right !!!

But wow. I didn't think that it got that hot there.

But

Building a stack of firewood for the winter ?? A noble endeavor !! Did that about 3 months ago. Got about 1/3 of a cord of some NICE oak. Cut it, load it in the truck, bring it home, unload it, split it by hand (I may be 62 Y/O but I'm not an old man ,,,,,, yet.) Then stack it. You wonder why your doing it at the time..... Then winter comes and your glad you did !!!!

 

The basin where you live at can be stagnant, smog is awful in those conditions. Hope for some wind.

 

This is not 1965-75. It's not like it used to be back then, with the brown air and all. Things have gotten cleaned up.

Hope for some wind ??? Yeah. That would help right now. There's not so much as a puff of wind here all day.

And on a side note.

Somewhere on this thread months ago, I posted a picture of the snow caped mountains north of me. That mountain is on

fire tonight. Hell of a sight to behold. No wind pushing it. It looks like their just going to let it burn it's way up the hill and

bring the planes out in the morning and deal with it.

 

I've been heating with a wood stove since I was 16 years old so I'm pretty used to the lifting, splitting, stacking overandoverandoveragain ...

We get 6 bush cord every year which translates to a LOT of work. At the end of the winter we rarely have any wood left over so the cycle repeats in October again.

Temperatures can range all over the place in Ontario and it's not unusual to have a heat wave like this. It's very welcome in fact, although when someone complains to me about the heat I simply say, "Remember January? I do ... ".

 

SIX CORDS !?!?!? That's a hell of a lot of wood !! For those of you that don't know what a cord is. It is a cut, split, and stacked pile of wood that's about 16-18 " deep, 4 feet tall and 16 feet long. But it's free heat all winter long.

 

I guess it depends on what your definition of free is LOL

We just barely make it through the winter with this much. We only heat with wood so during a more severe winter we sometimes end up having to 'borrow' or buy a bit more. We used to haul the wood out of the forest, chunk and then split it but neither my husband or I have enough time to do that anymore. Or desire LOL (I HATE wood).

 

There's nothing 'free' about it.

We always considered a cord to be 4' wide, 8' long and 4' high.

 

That's a closer measurement to our cords. We fill a 4 X 8 trailer up to and over the top with wood and call that a cord. Well I call that a cord. My husband doesn't call it anything except to yell, "STOP THROWING THE WOOD SO HIGH YOU MANIAC YOU'RE GOING TO HIT ME".

Oh and I made butter tarts today.

 

OK. I get your point. It's NOT free. Your time, your sweat, your blood sometimes, etc. But I'd rather cut wood that pay a heating bill.

 

It costs me roughly $800 to get near 7 cord of timber that needs to be cut and split.

If you figure $10 an hour, that works out to roughly $300 in labor, so that puts the price at around $1100.

I'll burn through 5 cord, plus around of 2 ton of coal at roughly $85 a ton that has to be shoveled and bucketed.

Figuring in my time again, that runs me up to about $200 a month to heat this place in the winter.

I'm paying more to burn then I was to buy gas, but being able to live in the middle of nowhere makes it worth it (there's no natural gas lines for several miles from my home).

 

Well yeah. But that's still 288 cubic feet of cut and split wood. And Baby does that times SIX ?!?!?!



Baby. I hope that you have a hydraulic wood splitter. If not, I need to speak to your husband !!!