And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
People used to comment on the wonderful smell of my shop. We ran maybe 10,000 feet of white pine and 30,000 feet of SPF every year, and I couldn't smell any of it unless the temperature or humidity changed or unless we got a unit of something sour or an unusual mix in one of the SPF units, maybe a little Ponderosa Pine or a North species spruce. Occasionally a little linseed oil, if something was going to sit in the shop for a couple of weeks in the summer we'd coat the end cuts to keep them from checking. I miss that shop and handling the lumber.
and just a whiff of varnish & other finishes
ReplyDeletePeople used to comment on the wonderful smell of my shop. We ran maybe 10,000 feet of white pine and 30,000 feet of SPF every year, and I couldn't smell any of it unless the temperature or humidity changed or unless we got a unit of something sour or an unusual mix in one of the SPF units, maybe a little Ponderosa Pine or a North species spruce. Occasionally a little linseed oil, if something was going to sit in the shop for a couple of weeks in the summer we'd coat the end cuts to keep them from checking. I miss that shop and handling the lumber.
ReplyDeleteOne of my prayers was please O LORD let me not get sensitized to any wood species.
DeleteYou can smell my wood from there…better lay off the old spice. Heh
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