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cut my ring finger like that had to have the nerve put back togather took four months to heal.never worn a ring since. i was 26 when i did it 24 years ago and that finger does not like to cold and never was straight again. i hope in the last 24 years finger surgery has come a long way and you get a complete recovery of that finger and sooner than i did jeff
Hope you guys all had a good year!
I looked at the 10 day here in Southern Illinois and went out and set my first 20 taps......drip drip drip. Our season here is real short and the silver maples I tap already have buds swelling up. I think last year I started tapping on the 23rd of January.
On the way into the timber my wife found a buck that I had been hunting this fall. I never got a shot at him but someone (or something) did. He was a real nice 14 pt but he was only 3.5 years old.
All in all it was a pretty darn good day.
Tuckermtn gave me and the Reverend a first class tour of one of his bushes and Parkers Rt 11 bush. I've got some good ideas. It really does pay to look around and see how others are setting up their tubing etc.
Parker, impressive set up on Rt 11. That's a really nice bush.
Eric, Thanks again for the tour and the vermiculite.
I appreciate it!
Todd
Dean sorry to hear about the finger. You gotta be careful with sharp knives. Hope you had good luck with the surgery and that you have a speedy recovery.
When you are ready to get that line up we can get a crew together and get it done. Another excuse to have a mapleholics meeting.
so i went to bake some of those cookies you get ready maid at the store, (these ones have the heart on them for valentines day) it said heat oven to 350 i happened to look over at my wood stove to see that the stack thermometer read 400 i took the pan and put it on the wood stove, 10 min later YUM! just gotta watch the ones in the center the bottoms burn easily, YUM YUM YUM, NOM NOM NOM, GOOD. IDEA!!!!!!!!! IM GUNNA COOK THOSE ON THE BACK PART OF THE EVAP WHERE THERE IS A TINEY BIT OF ROOM NEAR THE STACK WHERE I COULD PUT A 4" PIECE OF METAL AS MY "COOKIE SHEET" IM SO SMART!!!!!!!!! they will go great w/ the steaks in the sugar house
Last year I made a shelving unit that is open backed andis chained to the back side of the base stack. It has 3 shelves and a door that hangs on one end. With the door hung it reaches 350 in fairly short order. I made it to pre heat my glass bottles before bottling. I can take cold glass, set it in this "oven" and in a few minutes it is at 200. This would work well for making cookies etc. It cooks all of our meals while boiling. If I remember right i made it 24" wide x 12" deep and 30" tall. I made it out of 24 ga galvinized. Love it.
did not get any thing maple done this weekend spend time FISHING!!!!
don't take your tractor ice skating
Now that's! going to be hard to explain to the insurance company!!
Last winter I took my Kubota RTV for a drive through the ice. We were loading wood and put on 1 piece too many. Pulled it out with the 3 pt hitch skidding winch. Put it in the barn overnight, drained and refilled the fluids, ran her for an hour and changed the fluids again. Had some problem with moisture in the fuel for about a week but has been fine ever since.