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***Fireplace Flue***

***Fireplace Flue***

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** I know our fireplace needs to be checked out….. But…I don’t know what I’m looking at….. I need to invest some more time on YouTube…and see what extra tidbits I can learn….. I AM collecting chimney-jargon….. …..up-draft…down-draft…shiny creosote (versus other creosotes?)…smoke shelf…T.S.P. (trisodium phosphate)…damper…flue…chimney cap…and the National Chimney Sweep Guild….. Probably that last one…is the one I should try really hard to remember….. They have a website where you can search for qualified…

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***Cold Snap—Tra La***

***Cold Snap—Tra La***

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** It was cold when we got up yesterday morning….. …..some weather changes came through in the night….. …..and it made things cold…(well…cold for Florida)…it was a Snap!….. …..A Genuine Cold Snap!….. It was even colder this morning…we were in the 40’s F….. …..my Raynaud’s Syndrome kicked into gear in my hands….. …..(What’s Raynaud’s Syndrome?)…(I prefer to call it “cadaver-fingers”)….. I ignore it…I think it’s connected with my fibromyalgia….. …..Whatever….. But…with a Cold Snap…there’s…

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Why?~~~Why Do Horses Rub?

Why?~~~Why Do Horses Rub?

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* I don’t get it….. This is the coolest time of the year here in balmy/sub-tropical Florida….. This is the time of year when the bugs (and snakes and stuff) are at their lowest-activity-level….. “One” would think that the “irritants” to a horse would be at a minimum….. “One” would think that…..”One” would…..Right?….. …..But Noooooo!….. Addy…..for no reason at all….has decided to rub a 4″ x 4″ oozing/raw patch on the side of her…

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Cleaning the Fireplace

Cleaning the Fireplace

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*******Maybe This Link Will Get You To My Tick Tock Channel******* I’ve officially given up on a roaring fire for the next few months….. …..or more….. It’s hard feeling in the mood for a roasty/toasty fire when it’s in the 90’s or above ….. Before cleaning out the ashes for the coming summer….. …..I was able to eke in a couple small morning fires recently this last week….. It actually got down to 58F degrees one night….. …..my rule is……..

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*****The Chillies*****

*****The Chillies*****

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~~~~~~~Happy Belated Ground Hog Day~~~~~~~ Punxsutawney Phil did indeed see his shadow….. …..sooooooo…..six more weeks of winter(?)…..(I guess)….. ~~~~~Punxsutawney Phil~~~~~ This has been a great winter to indulge in my semi-pyromania….. I’ve cleaned up the backyard…..and the front yard….. …..now I’ve started on the goat’s pasture….. This has all been a clean-up mission of two years of blown down stuff from all of the trees….. Unidentifiable mosses…Palmetto fronds…squirrel-decimated pinecones (just to get things rolling)…Spanish moss…just about anything I can get…

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Eau d’ What…..!!!…..

Eau d’ What…..!!!…..

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This is Florida’s (short) annual-cold-snap….. We’ve had a series of days with chilly weather….. I’ve been successfully burning two year’s worth of wood from the backyard….. …..there was a lot of damp/pithy/spongy/dead/nasty/wood that has dropped from the trees back there….. …..it’s not the best firewood….. …..but it’s burn-able….. …..and quasi-ignitable…..(with the appropriate application of the necessary incendiaries)….. …..not the best of BTU’s…..but it’s enough….. …..I’m not picky….. …..I’ve got a nice roasty-toasty fire in the fireplace…..warming the house….. …..I’m successfully…

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~~~I Love My Fireplace~~~

~~~I Love My Fireplace~~~

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The weather dropped from eighty degrees to thirty degrees in only twenty-four hours….. …..gotta love Florida….. …..apparently there was a frost….. …..I missed it…..(my feed guy told me)….. I am glad it’s finally cool enough to actually enjoy riding and not continually worrying that my horse is going to melt under me….. It seems like everyone has sprouted a winter coat overnight….. …..even Anja…..(again)….. …..who I have body-clipped once this fall already….. …..but she’s a Norwegian Wooly Mammoth Fjord Horse…

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To And Froe…….

To And Froe…….

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I want one of these things… *****A Froe***** Why won’t my computer let me type this word? It’s a real word… *****Froe Definition***** It has a real definition… Froe.  Froe.  Froe.  Froe.  Froe.  Froe.  Froe.  Froe… …..I want one. …….we’ve previously established that I am a not-so-latent pyromaniac… …….I just like fires and smoke…….I don’t like to burn important things…….except for maybe my fingers & (on occasion) my eyebrows… I currently smell like smoke from working with my bees this…

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Designer Logs

Designer Logs

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  Esther gave me a fireplace log-in-a-bag. Who knew!?!             Ignitable logs in bags(?) ……………..Esther handed it to me in a Dillard’s bag (hence the “designer log” name/Esther shops at Dillard’s a lot/I’m more of a GoodWill shopper). The log had extensive, multi-lingual directions. It told me what to do and warned me against the obvious. Of course, I ignited it immediately and started it burning.   The darn thing even had a burning duration…

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First Fire

First Fire

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  Last year I think our first fire in our fireplace was earlier. It could have been earlier this year…………if I had just gotten everything organized a little sooner. I have been accumulating palmetto sticks and wood piles and brush piles all over this property………………in anticipation of burning them when it gets close to cold enough. Good wood; bad wood; aged wood; wet wood; green wood……………..I’ll burn anything……………(but, no pine). (Pyromaniacs are like that…)   The wood’s out there…………………it beckons…

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