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[Akka Homestead <akkabhomestead AT yahoo.com>]

Robert Walton wrote:
>> My back is killing me, too.  This weekend we loaded and moved 4
>> cords of  wood.  Most of it needs to be split to size so it was
>> heavy work.  Load it in the truck, unload it and stack it.  
>> 
> 
> Your post about making the shed for wood is what spurred me to
> action. Did you get the wood in the shed? I'm going to be shedless
> this year, just have to make due.


Yes, it is stacked in the shelter.  I should go out and take some pics of 
everything.

> 
> I think that having wood ahead is a great priority. If for some
> reason you can't cut wood one year, your already ahead of yourself.


Well, yes. There have been a few years when we got behind, last year being 
one of them.  We were grasshoppers and waited until Fall to put up *any* 
wood.  We played around in the canoes too much. Then, DH was diagnosed with 
cancer in our prime woodcutting month(October) and underwent surgery and 
radiation and all that.  Bottom line, On January 1, we had approximately less 
than two weeks of wood. I was trying to work, bring home wood from my folks 
house, split and stack it, and it was just too much. Never again.
This way, the wood is here.  I can split it anytime.
We don't have a trailer to haul it, so that it our biggest obstacle.  We just 
make truckloads.  For emergencies, I suppose I would clean up the all the 
deadfall in the woods(22 acres of trees next to National Forest Land)..  
That, I will call Depression wood.  The reason we haven't done it before is 
because it is such a slope(all ridges) and would be a pain to get out.  

Akka B




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On Sep 21, 2008, at 9:39 PM, bob ford wrote:

> http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/mythbusting-canadian-health-care-part-i

This writer seems knowledgeable and is on balance very positive about
the Canadian system, gives true and false reactions to various
assertions of those who criticize the system.
>
> http://www.city-journal.org/html/17_3_canadian_healthcare.html

The author of the book, Code Blue.



Bob, thanks for the research possibilities. I am too busy now to read
more.
>
>
> http://www.heartland.org/policybot/results.html?artId524
>
> http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id00495064758477
>
> http://www.nowpublic.com/world/don-t-destroy-american-health-system-canadians