{"id":25327,"date":"2023-03-26T09:08:38","date_gmt":"2023-03-26T16:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/?p=25327"},"modified":"2023-03-26T19:12:53","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T02:12:53","slug":"mar-26-nails-staples-screws-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/2023\/03\/26\/mar-26-nails-staples-screws-oh-my\/","title":{"rendered":"Mar 26 Nails, Staples & Screws. Oh My"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

George Santayana<\/strong><\/p>\n

I decided If I had a forgotten pizza in the cupboard. I would light a fire. No way, I already ate that. Huh!!! There it was a veggie pizza.<\/p>\n

To have a fire you need wood, but before that cats needed feeding and watering. They needed more food brought up. Did that. Fed them ,got water. Did that too.<\/p>\n

I had some old 2×4 salvage on the back deck. So I went up to get them.<\/p>\n

Three ice encrusted 8 foot 2×4 that were built into a trailer wall in 1976. No exaggeration.<\/p>\n

They were covered with a huge amount of staples, screws, nail, metal plates and worse.<\/p>\n

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Cut and re-cut<\/p><\/div>\n

Cutting them was one adventure, trying to pick spots where there was no metal to cut through and failing.<\/p>\n

Splitting those into kindling another adventure. The screws were holding the boards together.<\/p>\n

After a few of those were done I opened the woodstove door. It was already filled with a failed fire attempt from days ago.<\/p>\n

Now it would be a challenge.<\/p>\n

Pete and Repeat tried to light a fire. Pete left the room, who was left.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Repeat<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pete and Repeat tried to light a fire. Pete left the room, who was left.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Repeat<\/strong><\/p>\n

And so it went. Add carboard light it. Watch it go out. Fill the wood stove with more cardboard and light it again.<\/p>\n

Finally it caught. The oiled cast iron pan on top was starting to heat up. Yes I did fill the kettle and it is up there too.<\/p>\n

I opened the pizza, put it in the pan tasted a bit of cheese, it didn’t taste like a penicillin experiment. So I added more mozzerella. It was the best way to know if it was cooked. When the extra cheese melted,\u00a0the pizza was cooked.<\/p>\n

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Not yet!!!<\/p><\/div>\n

While I was waiting I was thinking about the gen next. It was out of fuel, and there were two empty fuel cans upstairs, and worse the filling station needed a new 5 gallon can put up.\u00a0 That suddenly became an after I eat pizza and have coffee task.\u00a0 Yennefer, Geralt, and Triss would have to wait.<\/p>\n

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Pizza was good, had cold coffee and vitamins. Hot coffee later maybe, the thermos was full of boiling water. Now I am off to see the generator.<\/p>\n

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