Badgers were on Peacock and had a chance to watch them (in between a nap and doing laundry). A win for Bucky.

Wisconsin 24

Rutgers 13

Go Astros

While digging in of of my boxes that was long forgotten about, ran into my corncob pipes and a dozen or so pipe tobaccy blends in mason jars. I drifted away from smoking a pipe about 5 yrs ago. Not intentionally, I just slowly faded away from the it. Might be time to get back into sparking up the pipe again.

Same here bucky. I got into it because it was cheaper than daily cigars but now I only smoke 2-3x/mo so I went back to cigars. As they run out I may pick up the pipe again. Some of those tins of English blends should be fantastic after sitting sealed for 3-4 years.

Split more wood today. Wood shed is half filled just from one tree. And there's still 15ft of that tree sticking out of the ground. It's too big at the bottom to cut with my 14" saw cutting circumferential I'll have to wedge it out to get the bar through. Probably a next year problem. Everything that was laying on the ground is now split and stacked or on fire in the burn pit.

I might have to dig out a burn pit in the back yard or buy a fire pit. Fire pit thingies are probably on sale now that winter is coming.

I currently work at a place that makes furniture and we have tons of scrap wood all the time. Mostly solid oak hardwood and Baltic birch plywood. Good firewood stuff plus the oak pallets they come on.

I've tossed out some of my plastic cutting boards and replaced them with some of the furniture oak butcher block wood scraps. It's not that I don't like the plastic ones but I like wooden ones better. Season them with some mineral oil to start then repeat periodically and they work great.

Maybe I should do it as a side gig. Make 1 inch thick oak butcher block cutting boards and sell them. Nah... too much work. I'll just make a some for myself, family and friends rather then trying to sell them.

One of my Mom's cutting boards that she still uses is made from oak. It's cut into the shape of a pig. That thing is probably older than I am and is still going strong..

You can get 55 gallon drums off of FB marketplace, offer up, or some other type of thingy for about $20-$25 bucks.

Burn barrel... done and ya saved a lotta $$.

Pretty cool how they make those... 😟

Macs is right. Burn barrel is easier/more contained than a burn pit. I did that for a long time before my burning needs outgrew barrels. Or rather my laziness outgrew them. I don't feel like picking up sticks and burning them every time I mow so I dug a pit and threw them in there. Once the pile is taller than me, then I light it up and do a full walk of the woods picking up sticks.

Drill a few water drain holes and some air vent holes in the bottom side and a full barrel of sticks will have it glowing red.

The last barrel I picked up I cut 1/3 off and welded some legs on it, used it as a patio fire pit. The other 2/3 went out in the woods for stick burning. But with how much I burn that barrel didn't last long.

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I’ve man sculpted my inbox (lobbing a real softball up). Ready for incoming (gross).

[quote=DrafterX]OU pulls it off... and there was much rejoicing... 😟[/quote]

How can an OSU guy even type that?

Not sure a burn barrel is what I want. I'm not looking to do an inferno. Thinking of something maybe knee high that you could sit around in lawn chairs and roast marshmallows or just spark a camp like fire. Then look into the sky and contemplate the world's problems and solve them.

Maybe a 55 gallon barrel cut lengthwise and propped up off the ground with some bricks or blocks to motar it in but that is too much work that I'm willing to put in. I don't have a grinding wheel to cut it up the barrel nor have the time or energy to make a brick saddle to put it on. Maybe buy a 55 gallon barrel and a plasma torch to cut it in half. If you're gonna do it, go all in. Then what the frank am I gonna do with a plasma torch when done?

Ok... back to reality. Prolly just buy a fire pit thingy. It wouldn't get used frequently just now and again.

This will require a lot of thought... Something to sleep on. Wouldn't want to make a rash and important decision like this on the fly. It will need some deep thought and maybe some yoga (never done yoga, surprised I even know how to spell yoga).

[quote=8trackdisco]How can an OSU guy even type that?[/quote]

I support OU until they play OSU... and any Big12 team in the Bowl games... 😟

[quote=8trackdisco]How can an OSU guy even type that?[/quote]

Agreed. It’s like “the Chefs won.. yay afc west”

Uh….no

I've got about a 5' diameter pit in my yard.. it's about a foot deep surrounded by landscaping bricks.. have to shovel it out a couple times a year but it's no big deal... 😟

Michigan kicked Minnesota's ass.

Michigan 52

Minnesota 10

I don't follow college sports much but just learned that Peacock streams the Big 10 football games so had it on in the background while doing other stuff around the house.

If given the choice I'd root for Michigan over the Gophers. Why the heck would you pick a gopher as a mascot? Plus I'm pretty anti Minnesota on most sports.

From a football stance, I have a genuine dislike of the Vikings for example. When I grew up the next door neighbor was a huge Vikings fan. The Purple People Eaters were a force to be faced twice a year when my Packers kinda sucked. Also the across town high school rival, Memorial High, school colors was (probably still is) purple. Maybe I need a therapist to work though my dislike and scars induced from the color purple.

Nah.. I'll let it ride. It's just a color (but purple sucks, Mr. Purple is on another job)

At least I'm not Mr. Pink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W5KhfJHF_4

Mornin' dudes... gotta find a little motivation.

Happy Sunday funday!

Three Three NINE.............

Sunday greetings all.

38 degrees.

The inevitable has arrived.