pdfangus
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A man who was like a second father to me loved his fireplace and had a fire in it every night that was even a little bit cool.
when i was a kid my dad made a deal with Blackburn that I would help him around the farm in exchange for keeping my horse there....
he taught me how to build things...he taught me a work ethic, he taught me a lot of things about how to be a man....I probably spent more time with him in my teenage years than I did with my dad....on snowy and wet miserable days we would quit early and go in the house and lay on the floor in front of the fireplace and watch old western movies on tee vee.
One of the things I learned how to do from him was how to cut split and stack wood enough for a years worth of fire wood. I got to where I could split wood with an ax or hammer and wedges like a machine....I used to cut electric poles to fire place length with a double bit ax and then split them...he decided I was wasting too much wood with the chopping and bought me a small McCullock chain saw...I could cut faster with the ax....
I miss the strength and youth of those days but we have a fire going in the woodstove right now....in fact we heat with a woodstove and a coal stove exclusively....dusty and dirty but we are warm and no worries about the power going out...
when i was a kid my dad made a deal with Blackburn that I would help him around the farm in exchange for keeping my horse there....
he taught me how to build things...he taught me a work ethic, he taught me a lot of things about how to be a man....I probably spent more time with him in my teenage years than I did with my dad....on snowy and wet miserable days we would quit early and go in the house and lay on the floor in front of the fireplace and watch old western movies on tee vee.
One of the things I learned how to do from him was how to cut split and stack wood enough for a years worth of fire wood. I got to where I could split wood with an ax or hammer and wedges like a machine....I used to cut electric poles to fire place length with a double bit ax and then split them...he decided I was wasting too much wood with the chopping and bought me a small McCullock chain saw...I could cut faster with the ax....
I miss the strength and youth of those days but we have a fire going in the woodstove right now....in fact we heat with a woodstove and a coal stove exclusively....dusty and dirty but we are warm and no worries about the power going out...
