Colder here. What's your temp? What ya burnin?

Cant compete with that my friend, 5* here with 6 mph NNW wind, rocking the honey locust! A personal perfect 74* inside...I trust this finds you and all well and warm...

 

12F here & clearing. Temps dropping, but very light wind. White Oak on duty. Nice steady 72 in here. Still burning through a lot more wood than the last couple winters, but probably around "normal" usage rate now.

 

a balmy 11 outside light wind and clear sky.
75 in the house with black locust.

 

-6 F. White Ash in Wood Gun.

 

11 outside, 72 inside, got a stove load started, waiting to engage the cat. Mixed bag, elm, beech, locust & red oak.

 

-22 now. Bright stars in the sky and still dropping temps! No wind.

 

5 above here . Snowing. I'de rather have 30 below and clear.

 

It's 2° here. Calm, and no clouds. It's just cold. 70 in the stove room, and about to rechooch with elm pine and beech. We were out with friends at a local bar, drinking gooder stuff, but wanting the fire that we've got rolling at home.

 

President of course, because no one is giving you any Chit!

 

There is a huge back story as to why they are mixing sewer waste with lime or ash now.

It goes back to the start of waste water treatment plants where they were designed to clean up pollution..and do, and they are a very good thing, but there is a very low percentage that just cannot be processed, and that used to be spread straight on fields...a lot of regulation...but it could be done. However a lot of landowners like me said no way, so we stuck with traditional fertilizers. This is Maine though where our fields are very low on PH, so what we do want is lime and ash that gets the PH up. With so many boilers and paper mills, we wanted what they wanted to get rid of. This presented a problem; ash was easy to get rid of and sludge was not.

Then the state realized that if they mixed the two together, not only would the mixture be great for fields, it would put what was not wanted, in with what was highly sought after, and to their credit it did work.

Myself, I will not take the stuff. I know waste water treatment plants are a huge part of the problem and it is not their fault they cannot process 100% of it, but at the same time I am not a huge fan of spreading human waste from cities on my land either. As of right now I can still get Mill Lime separately from a paper mill at $22 a ton, or I can get seaweed from a seaweed processing plant for $1.90 a ton, so I am satisfied with that.

But this is huge business, and next to my town is a huge mixing facility with another one being built there as well, but a Canadian outfit doing it.

 

Good morning ya'll. 8* here now, 65 in. Brought the coals to glowing and added some hard as nails Maple to the stove.

 

5 degrees with 20 degrees on deck, it's gonna' snow tonight/tomolly.
Hedge apple in the owb.

 

6 outside when I got up at 6:30, up to 8 and high today to be 16. Burning down some coals and the ng boiler is cycling a bit, tis ok. Going to get the box a choochin on some beech and hickory before we head off to church.

 

The White House lawn along with hundreds of acres around the area were contaminated with heavy metals, specifically lead from sludge based fertilizer sold by ComPro. Sludge based fertilizer is controversial because it can contain traces of almost anything that gets poured down the drain, from Prozac flushed down toilets to lead hosed off factory floors. Many food processors will NOT buy vegetables from fields that were fertilized with sewer sludge based fertilizers because they can't afford the possibility of any levels of heavy metal contaminants in their food nor the negative PR.

 

BOHOCA?

 

X2

 

That's is a misspelling., should have been BOHICA.

Bend Over Here It Comes Again.

 

have to love auto correct.