Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for October 17, 2020

Spiders!

Check her for ticks Arlo.

I would definitely be careful using a spray can around an open flame!

That’s why I like to use the Duro artificial logs. They burn for 3 hours and I’m done. I live in Arizona so a box of logs last for a couple of years. They are individually wrapped and there is no problem storing them.

This is funny

So I lit a fire

Isn’t it good Norwegian wood?

We Southerners are more apt to have to concern ourselves about this. Insects can sometimes winter over in a woodpile. Use a wood rack. Get it off the ground.

Isn’t it good? Norwegian wood!

I would get a fire going with clean wood stored indoors, and then add the buggy wood. The bugs have a harder time escaping a hot flame.

I used to bring a load or two of wood into the garage (after checking for bats) and let it “de-bug”. This also had the advantage of the garage being attached via the utility room, so I didn’t have to go outside the stoke the fire. This house, both the fireplace and Franklin store are gas.

Sometimes, spiders and ants aside, it can be a romantic evening!

I have well over a cord left over from last year….that’s all nice and stacked in the basement. Two days ago I tossed another cord down there….now I have to get motivated to go down there and stack it!

A long while ago you used to be able to buy a pressed log that when burned would give off all these pretty colors. Now I wonder what hazardous chemical elements were in that log.

Make room for a new crop of critters!

Any news about the kickstart project?

Shame, shame be upon the Days. By using wood heat, they are contributing to global warming. Shame and condemnation be upon them.

If you live where it’s cold enough, all the bugs die in the winter, and you don’t have to worry about them.

This reminds me of an outdoor party we gave in Florida many years ago. It was a cool, Fall night and we had a fire pit surrounded by bales of hay for seating. The hay and logs were a gift from the father of one of my friends. After the meal, everyone was sitting by the fire enjoying the company. We put the last log on the fire and at least 100 cockroaches fled out onto the feet of the surrounding guests. Needless to say, the party ended a bit early.

Could this be political, referencing the fly from the VP debate and “last year’s wood” being the current administration?

We simply got rid of our wood stove as part of reducing our “carbon footprint”. Yes, our energy bill went up but looking at the increase in the bill I figured that cutting and stacking wood was making me about 5 cents an hour as compared to bothering some Salmon in the Columbia river to make hydro power for our all-electric home.

Why? Last years wood would be aged and burn better. This years would be on the green side.

Bugs have to live somewhere too, you know.

I wish I had leftover wood. I cut and split all Spring, gather wood in the summer, and cut and split all fall and early winter. Then burn for heat all winter

Be very careful, brown recluse spiders (fiddle back) love wood piles.

Use Jazzoline! One Whoomph & its Adios, Insects!