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todd ellis
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i spent the weekend at "the farm" cutting & splitting firewood and upgrading the bunkhouse kitchen floor with ceramic tile.
"the farm" is a place with no interwebs & very, very little cell signal. because of this one of the guys helping me brought with him something called a "cellular signal repeater". "this", he said, "will increase the "Gs" zooming around in the air to a degree that we can get a better phone signal here at "the farm."
"get out! get out right now & take your witchcraft with you!", says me.
my knees hurt. my back is sore. i am refreshed.
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You'll sleep well tonight.
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You are very blessed to have such a place.
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I just took a deep breath.
Thanks for the vicarious calm.
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todd ellis
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when you spend much of your week staring at a screen --- it's nice to look over your shoulder and say --- "i did that."
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I like it a lot
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| todd ellis wrote: | | when you spend much of your week staring at a screen --- it's nice to look over your shoulder and say --- "i did that."] |
Did you split them by hand or did you use a machine?
Swinging an ax is good exercise, especially if it’s a Fiskars (Finnish) ax 
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todd ellis
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from the time i was about eleven i rolled, split & stacked by hand. now, i have a hydraulic splitter on the tractor that does that chore for me.
fiskars makes good stuff! i have had an 8# maul & a half axe ... forever.
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| todd ellis wrote: | | now, i have a hydraulic splitter on the tractor that does that chore for me. |
Slacker.   
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Splitting wood is one the *the* most satisfying chores on the planet.
I love hearing about these farm days.
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todd ellis
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this one is older than me and doesn't have any, what one might call ... safety features, but it is brutal on a log.
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| FinMac wrote: | | Swinging an ax is good exercise |
Backwoods.
Spotty communication with the outside world.
An axe being swung through the air.
Do you know how many horror movies start like this?
All it needs is a group of horny teenagers camping nearby.
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todd ellis
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does that make me the crusty old groundskeeper who you THINK is the killer until the end when he saves the last scantily clad camper from the REAL killer?
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Wise and sane decisions do not a horror movie make!
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