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Way, way back in ….. 2019? Samith gave me a box of giant match-like fire starters.

Wait.

Never mind.

I already wrote this post when I bought the next box. Good grief. There are no new ideas.

Here’s that post: Fire Starter Safety. I wrote it in January of 2022, so it’s safe to say that a box of these lasts about 2 years.

Well, I ponied up the $14 bucks for new box and did the same thing – removing the match heads so I can sleep at night.

And, yes, I once again burned all the match heads at once. It was SUPER smokey, so I added a couple of sticks to try and activate the secondary-combustion action of the Fire Can.

The world ran out of eggs during the snowstorms, so when they came back, I went ahead and got what was available – 24 eggs. Good grief. How long is it going to take us to finish those? I usually like to make a fried egg on my cast iron skillet, but that thing might […]

This January is so weird – I just feel like it never got started and I just can’t get my legs under me. With the weather, we hadn’t had a ‘normal’ week of school until this week….. and then sickness hit the center like a ton of bricks. We’ve sent soooo many children home sick, […]

Lloyd and a bunch of people went in together to purchase a couple of thermal imaging cameras from an auction. There is just one problem….. I never want to stop playing with them, so how on earth can we share them? We didn’t really get to play with them until just this past week, and […]

Here’s a crazy thought: when you get smoke detectors, hang them up ON THE WALL in a logical place, and replace the batteries every time we change the clocks. Sounds like something most people do, yes? Well, not Lloyd and Lauren. A while back we bought smoke detectors that required batteries. Then, when some friends […]

Happy Birthday, Sam! I can’t remember if I wrote about the cold. (Checks past posts) I see that I didn’t. We’ve had a bit of a Polar Vortex going on over the past week and a half or so, with the high temperatures well under zero. At work it affected the heating system in half […]