• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

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    NHS - truly amazing service

    Best of luck and speedy recovery. My buddy a few days after retiring peed some blood. Went to his doctor who sent him to a specialist. He got a heavy ten courses of high dose chemotherapy after which the specialist operated and removed his Prostrate and Bladder. At the same time made a...
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    Cheap small drawknife

    Will do. Very few wildfires here in Saskatchewan this year. We’ve been getting rain every week at least since the snow melted. 5mm last night. Green as all get out with an all you can be eaten mosquito buffet for anyone outside or slow to close the door behind themselves. 🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟 Pete
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    Cheap small drawknife

    My father made a couple small drawknives from a metal chop saw blade that are a bit different. If you like I’ll post some pictures after the coming weekend. Camping at the moment so the shop is 3 hours away.
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    The Bas…..s got me 11 times

    My father made cider (fermented type) from the apples that the horse didn't get. Horse would reach up and grab a branch and pull down hard. Then he would look for the ones that fell. Between the two of them the wasps didn't get much. Pete
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    Damn blood thinners

    I have A-fib too and the cardiologist prescribed Apixaban 5mg as the blood thinner. Preferred it over Aspirin. I might bleed a touch more than before and bruise a little easier too. That's it but everyone is different so what is good for me might do you in. They also had me do a sleep study and...
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    The Bas…..s got me 11 times

    In the late 70s I was in Fort Simpson in the Northwest Territory's working at the airport. The horseflies were everywhere and annoying to say the least. Buzzing around looking for a chance to land on you to bite out a chunk of flesh, even through your clothes. Every once in a while what looked...
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    Little critters

    The First Nations people of North America might say the same about Europeans since arriving. ;) Can I add the various gophers to the list of little critters around here that would make me happy if they stayed a few hundred feet away from the house? Not enough hawks, owls, foxes, badgers and...
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    Blast From The past

    Mosquito feeder. Pete
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    Drip irrigation.

    We planted a bunch of trees for privacy and eventually as wind breaks. Used 1,000L IBC tanks perched on an empty cage. Trees are too far from the house to hook up to the house water. A battery timer set to go off every morning for a couple hours or so. Flexible plastic pipe along the tree line...
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    What Birds Have You Seen Today

    A male Meadowlark was on the fence singing this morning. We have lots around here. Took a while to see it because the call is so loud you think it is nearby. Today was the first day in at least a couple weeks that it wasn't raining so I was out on the riding mower. The Robins were following me...
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    A bit of a head scratcher as it’s too hot to do real work.

    You know the lock doesn't matter. The crook is just going to boot the door in. A large dog is much more effective. Pete
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    Picture Frame

    When I've done exposed corner splines I've used the table saw. Usually I put a biscuit in the corner since they don't show unless it is a small frame in which case I use a Ryobi mini biscuit. Ryobi brought them out with a special biscuit machine several decades ago. They never caught on but I...
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    Picture Frame

    To me the wood in post 3 looks like Zircote from Central America. Pete
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    Modern cooking — a rant.

    Thanks guys (I presume). We don't have the big smokers you have, just a table top/portable pellet smoker, a Louisiana brand. It does have temperature control and a meat probe. We have done chicken legs but the skin was rubbery so we have to work on that. Bacon wrapped, cream cheese stuffed, pork...
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    Modern cooking — a rant.

    How so? What temperatures do you look for when smoking? Eager taste buds want to know. 😋 Pete
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