Found a dead tree that had fallen over down the street and subsequently had been chopped up by the people across the street from it...so, during the first run, maybe about a week and a half ago, I picked up two giant segments and some smaller branches to test out as firewood... Cut them down with the chopsaw [miter saw] and split them with an axe (really great excersize) and they were surprisingly really well seasoned for burning...so yesterday, I went back to the spot to get a bunch more... Got three huge pieces of log and filled the entire back portion of my HHR up with smaller pieces and pine cones...which are amazing for starting fireplace fires because of their unique placing capabilities...
Chopped the smaller pieces up:
And, in the process of breaking parts of the bigger stuff with my own limbs, got whacked in the face pretty good by the previously thought-to-be-dead tree:
Also wanted to use the pumpkin guts from the pumpkin I carved (for fun...came out nice...its on the twitter and Facebook) to bake with...so I did a first baking of the year thing...which turned out really tasty...
The top two pictures are of a pumpkin, cookie, peanut butter graham cracker experiment which was delicious, even though I only ate one piece... Before and After baking pics; The bottom left cookies had peanut butter cups mixed in with them as well as pumpkin and the right side just had pumpkin; both made with chocolate chip cookie dough...
Checked up on the tree graft I started with two potentially fence-ruining Oak trees and its grafted well already:
Been working on the c l o c k album and may put up the two new songs on YouTube in demo form, per usual, and re-demo-ed the whole album [still have to re-demo a couple of songs to be honest] to listen through while driving... Also been working on Patriot stuff for both the first and second albums; but. nothing really ready to write much about....waiting for my birthday and hoping to be able to buy a new microphone before proceeding...but the songs sound nice... Realized some of them are bluegrass, some are folk, some are country slow songs, and a couple even hit the rock spectrum... And, did some revisions on a few drum tracks for Vessels...
Been all over the musical place to be specifically vague...
Was looking at the approaching Orkin Truck this morning and ran smack into the front door frame...pretty painful. Broke my tobacco water pipe of 6 years while cleaning it...think I used too much hot water, but was able to make a new one out of a mouthwash bottle...and it works just as good...
Got to enjoy a bottle of Scotch these last three days... and found out my neighbor is quite educated about trees...so we were talking about some of the ones I removed from her fence area [they were protruding] and it turns out they are the causes of the Sudden Oak Death disease...so I helped the environment out as well...
Much impressed with the latest issues (ever since I complained, actually) of the New Yorker. What a strange magazine...very reminiscent of any human society but with good articles...
Bout all I can blog about for now...
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