. I maybe getting old but I still wear it to about the middle of my back. Mom always had a hairbrush in the glove box along with her touch up makeup.
Do you have the exhaust vented well outside the building? Just remember carbon monoxide kills people every winter from generators.
I ran the exhaust out through the wall and up to the roof. There's one large muffler inside and another muffler outside. I have two screened openings with louvers, one on each end of the building, and another slider window on another wall. I forget to open the slider last night. Today I opened the window and that kept the temp down. I think I'll cut another hole in the wall and add an electric fan to help with the ventilation and cooling for the summer.
I have a hairbrush in my school back pack, home, work desk...but apparently not in my car (although I do now. I bought one yesterday on my afternoon break). My hair is pretty short. It stays about shoulder length because it won't grow any longer than that. Even as a kid I have always had shorter hair. It is fine and tangles at the drop of a hat. All my cousins have or had long thick beautiful hair... I got jipped somewhere along the way.If its windy outside, my hair is always in a braid or it would be one tangled mess too
I am also going to buy a comb to put in the bag as well
Practice makes perfect
. Besides, wasn't it a cooker you tried the first time or am I thinking wrong? Just remember to wipe your rims using vinegar to remove any oil before putting your lids on.
Canned anything is not good in a pressure cooker. There is no point, its allready been canned. Use everything fresh and raw.
A cooker, not canner? If a cooker that would have been the problem. When using canned veggies they would turn into a mush. Another possibility if using a canner would be that the veggies broke down into a mush making your stew too thick to have the heat penetrate thru all the way. You can use either fresh or frozen when canning. When I don't have a full canner from the garden produce, I will go ahead and blanch to have ready to go then throw in freezer. When I go to use, I defrost and then warm before canning. Only thing I have used in soups and stews from canned goods is tomatoes since those are water bathed. Those can be recanned into something else ok.
That was the first thing I thought about what kind of vents are we talking about. If a gas water or tee, then it could be worth checking. If they are just air vents then a leak would be your worst worry.
I'm going to upgrade my wood stove here. It's one of those cheap voglezangs that aren't airtight at all. It works, but has seams all over it that puff out smoke when lighting it and you can't close it off with all that ventilation.
I clean mine each spring. I also burn pine, which is fine as long as you clean the flue yearly. I got the brush but use a telescoping fiberglass rod that was intended for painting. It works great and I already had it.Since you guys are talking woodstoves.
Last fall was our first in this house. I have a wood stove insert in the basement and one up stairs. Whe had the chinmney sweep come clean the chimney and inspect everything. My wife was in the impression that you only had to clean every couple/few years. I told her heck no, were getting it done every year because 1 I don't want a chimney fire and 2 I don't want a build up making it a pain to clean. So your choise is the chimney sweep or we can buy the brush and rods.
We bought the brush and rods. The stupid thing is they had all of this on clearance last spring and she blew me off. :lame:
That sounds like the same stove that I put in the cabin. When I lit the first fire it wouldn't draw and filled the cabin with smoke. It was an EPA (government) approved stove. Like everything else the government does they made something that worked fine before in to something that wouldn't work now. Years ago, pre EPA, I had the same stove and it worked great. So I pulled the stove out and replaced the damper, cut out the cast tabs that prevented the damper from closing all the way, removed the tray inside the stove and threw away the fiberglass blanket that prevented the smoke from going up the chimney. Then I added some stove gasket material around the door making it airtight. This little stove works great now.
You scared me when you said pine. I guess if it is working for you that's all that matters.
I like it for getting the fire started. It's never my first choice as it burns too fast, but it is fine to burn as long as you're cleaning the flue each season.
I'd rather not burn pine either, but many people do. You burn what you have available. I burn Doug fir and larch and have a lot of pine for backup if needed.
I see. Using for kindling or whatever to get it going is no biggy.
All of my firewood, pine included, come from standing dead trees. These trees have been dead for years and are dry and ready to burn. We don't have any hard wood around here.
