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After a good morning with Ovid, I went out to humble myself with my chain saw. \u00a0As I’ve written here before, I’ve used chain saws since 1974, 39 years. \u00a0Long enough, you’d think, to learn not to put the chain on backwards, but I did just that this morning. When a chain saw blade is on backwards, it burns the wood, rather than cut it. \u00a0Took me a second try to figure this out. \u00a0Back to the bench.<\/p>\n
Sure enough, the little pointy sharp things were away from the cut rather than toward it. This seems pretty basic, doesn’t it? \u00a0Well, it is. \u00a0After solving the puzzle, I turned the chain around, retensioned it and went back out. \u00a0Ah, like a knife through butter.<\/p>\n
Cutting wood for our Samhain bonfire next Thursday. \u00a0This will officially end the growing season and as things look right now, we’ll have finished the remaining tasks in the garden by then. \u00a0We have flower bulbs to plant, garlic to plant and leeks to harvest. \u00a0With minor exceptions that’s the end of it until next spring. \u00a0Which, if the climate keeps on warming, may come soon after my birthday on Valentine’s day. \u00a0Or, as it did this year, sometime in June. \u00a0Hard to tell up here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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