The "corpse shovel-toss"!! TOO funny! We have groundhogs that expire due to "lead poisoning" & my husband gives them a "shovel ride" up the hill to a patch of loose sand that should have rows of headstones! The occasional former aquarium resident goes under the rose bushes, and we have lovely roses! For several years I house-sat in the country for the 1st 2 weeks of July each year. One year the resident dog (Blackie-I swear he lived to come up with mischief!) brought home a groundhog friend, only Mr. G had met with mayhem some time ago & resembled a furry basketball in appearance, and something VERY nasty in scent! Of course this was shortly before I was expecting guests for a picnic, so I grabbed the shovel & heaved Mr. G into the treerow. Blackie responded by bounding into the treerow & returning the foul carcass to me, all the while smiling (I swear!) and exclaiming What Fun! What now? I grabbed a large garbage bag & attempted to roll Mr G into it with the shovel while Blackie enjoyed trying to keep the carcass OUT of the bag! Finally I won the battle & the dog won a "time out" in his fenced area. Now I start to toss the bag in the back of my car until the smell hits me again & I say "In my CAR!? NO way!" Now what? In the end, I hold the bag out the open drivers window & drive slowly down the dirt road beyond the property where I pitched it down a ravine about a mile away! The dog had some fun, & Mr. G did not return!

I keep a list of the seed varieties I'm planning to WS and then estimate the # of containers/jugs of each seed type I think I'll WS. For example, I know after seeing the hummingbird more often this year I want to go heavy on Lobelia cardinalis/cardinal flower. I traded for seed to supplement what I harvested from my WS plants and have enough to WS 6-10 milk jugs. I've still got plenty of room to plant out lots more LC in a few beds so I'll go heavy with those. Last year I WS ten jugs of blackberry lily so I don't need to do those this year. I'll only do 1-2 jugs of Verbascum/mullein because the ones I WS last year will bloom in 2012. I've gotten very low germination from columbine the past two WS seasons and will sow those extra heavy this year. Apple & pear germinated 100% as did dogwood. I have more seeds and will WS them this year since I lost two mature dogwood trees to the October snowstorm. I'll WS as many jugs as I have turtlehead seeds. They were a hit with the bumblebees. I keep WS until I look at my pot ghetto and decide, "That's enough."

Down drafts are the basic concern that applies thus the , requirement to have your flue 18 to 24 inchs above the ridge of your building . Straight flue runs without restrictions or piping increment reductions are crucial . Every 90 degree elbow reduces flow by 5 percent . These restrictions can increase soot production . Cresote is another problem due to burning wood that is unseasoned or at less than optimium operating temperatures. Long flue lengths are commonly hit the hardest by these problems , especially when uninsulated....aka Ewalk .

When I first saw this I was on my iPhone and couldn't see any. Now on my PC I see several although my mature vision can't see 20. Nice shot. Thanks. tj