#Wood Preservative

[prep4tomoro]

Preserve Wooden Tools and Utensils for a Lifetime with Oil:

The most time-honored way to protect wood from rot and decay, over time, has always involved oil. Use animal fats, beeswax, linseed oil, mineral oil, tung oil, Danish oil, even used motor oil (with precautions/exceptions) to preserve wooden hunting tools, hand tools and kitchen utensils. Wood requires a preservative that can harden to prevent water penetration. Use Food-Safe Oils for Wooden Kitchen Utensils. When the tool/utensil is first made or acquired, rub it with oil every day for a week, once every week for a month, then once a month for a year. https://www.5six7.com/survival/P4T/P4T_Blog-WhentheFoodRunsOut.htm#oiling-tools

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[sesamenom]

AU where Aredhel founded Gondolin and Eol nabbed Turgon (and little idril)

(click for quality)

[housecow]

nerdiest thing about me is that i have a hand lens on me at all times so i can look at rocks veryyy closely

[vandaliatraveler]

Part 2: After the Rain - Life in an Appalachian Temperate Forest.

From top: Wild ginger (Asarum canadense), also known as Canadian snakeroot; Philadelphia fleabane (Erigeron philadelphicus), a lovely spring aster deserving of a more dignified name; white wood violet (Viola sororia albiflora), a white variation of the common blue violet; woodland phlox (Phlox divaricata), also called wild blue phlox; creeping phlox (Phlox stolonifera), a mountain native and the most delicate and beautiful of Appalachia’s many wonderful phlox species; and Allegheny blackberry (Rubus allegheniensis).

[maximalismmaiinnature]

We found the loveliest little meadow this morning 🥹

Sound on for nature noises 💚

[megpricephotography]

Flynn likes to be involved with everything I do. If he sees me crouch down to look at something &/or pick it up, he likes to come & inspect it as well. In case it's interesting. Or edible. Or both.

In this case, I'd found a fossil. According to Flynn this falls in the "Not Interesting" category but he gave it a polite sniff all the same. Like I politely praise him when he finds & shows me puddles & molehills. We humour each other.

Such a teeny tiny fossil! It's one of the smallest I've found. Probably at least 420 million years old, which is just completely wild.

[hedgehog-moss]

I recently heard about a 400-year-old tree in a nearby village, which made me want to estimate the age of the big lime tree behind my house. I measured the circumference at my height then divided by Pi to get the diametre then multiplied by the growth factor for this species—and I learnt that my lime tree is about 255-260 years-old! It was born in the 1760s... I also went and measured some of my beech trees and the oldest ones are ~190 years-old, which makes sense as it’s the age of the house. I’m not sure why this lime tree is so much older than all the other trees on this land, but it makes me want to give it a little plaque, maybe one that says “I was 25 years-old during the French revolution.”

[peanut-with-wifi-access]

I've always liked the idea that the clans carve to preserve their history, while the tribe paints

So what about the kittypets?

They sing.

They see their twolegs going around the home, making rythmic noises while they work, so the cats copy.

Kittypets sing about their pasts, about life. They sing to each other and to strangers. They sing about everything. They sing about nothing. Some songs have words, others are just noise. Some songs are long, some are short. Some have been passed down for ages, others made up on the spot.

The clans hear them. They hear those songs, echoing from the twoleg place. Some are tempted to join in, but are prevented. Warned.

Do not follow the song of siren.

@skyclan-funny-name-squad (@.ing u cuz fae kp au stuff I think you'd like but is too long for an ask)

[koshigurajumy]

Jumy-M Yakisugi / 焼杉の家

[crimson-dianxia]

commission for @faintlyglow :))

[kodachrome-net]

Winter scene, Forest Glen Woods, Chicago, January 6, 2024

[beatsforbrothels]

Billy Woods - Smith + Cross

[dougielombax]

Heck I’ll make a list of Irish inventions now just to prove my point!

In no particular order.

Feel free to reblog.

Behold:

1. Whiskey. Let’s get the obvious stuff out of the way. The Scottish got it from us. Shut up. Anyway.

2. The Ogham script.

3. Hurling. One of the oldest sports in the world.

4. Gaelic football.

5. Penitential manuals (it’s an early Christian thing!)

6. Modern chemistry! (Founded by Robert Boyle- also Boyle’s Law)

7. Milk of magnesia.

8. Modern meat curing techniques. (Bacon rashers)

9. Column stills.

10. IV therapy (invented by William Brooke O'Shaughnessy)

11. Kyanizing process for wood preservation.

12. Croquet.

13. Induction coils.

14. The field of seismology.

15. The Kelvin scale.

16. The binaural stethoscope.

17. The first transatlantic telegraph cable.

18. Boycotting. In its modern form.

19. Steam turbines.

20. Cream crackers (YES!!!!!!)

21. The first modern submarine.

22. Ginger ale.

23. Reflector sights.

24. Radiotherapy.

25. Nickel-zinc batteries.

26. Duty free airport stores.

27. Seasoning for crisps.

28. Portable defibrillators.

I can recall that much.

Just saying.

I’m sure there are more things. These are just the ones I can recall.

[direwolfrules]

You see, now I’m hyper-fixated on G1 Monster High and Ever After High, mostly Ever After High, so now I want to start a rewrite AU thing of my own and use the disappearance of Hexiciah Steam’s team as a catalyst for the crossover. Like, the Evil Queen returning is Act 2 or 3 of the crossover, secret final boss type thing. Act 1 focuses on the missing steampunk dilf. I’d also reorder or cut somethings entirely from both series.

Like, the Catacombs under Monster High are a eldritch nightmare realm constructed by an ancient monster race known as the Builders. They’re near impossible to map out due to their impossible size, full of impossible illusions and tech, just random weirdness. Well, what if the impossible stuff that monster kind doesn’t understand or can’t make sense out of is the result of magic not native to monster kind? What if the Builders used some Ever After and Wonderland magic in their creations in addition to monster magic and tech? What if it spanned several realms?

And like, we’d get the ghouls investigating because Ghoulia finally made progress on her research into what happened to Professor Steam and discovered that the last report of this mad scientist was he was going to go down into the Catacombs with his team to finally prove his Builders theory correct. Cleo is extra interested and invested because the name of one of the listed team members? Her long missing mom. Also Lagoona actually comes along on an adventure for once.

On the Ever After side let’s let Darling be the one to be doing research on magical locations for a school project and figure out where the lost entrance to the Labyrinth is. Idk, some of the girls go with. Definitely Blondie for her Mirrorcast, which means Dexter’s going too because camera man. Cedar goes because of all the fantastic art that’s said to be within the Labyrinth and also “I cannot tell a lie, so if we do find the Labyrinth my word will be proof that this isn’t us pulling a hoax-us-pocus”. Apple and Raven cause we need them, they’re the main characters (and Apple and Darling need to develop together so the Dragon Games payoff is like, a payoff). I also need Briar to come because I love her and this is my self-indulgent rewrite AU thing. Also I can totally picture her telling Lagoona that Gil’s family ain’t shit, love is love, make out with that boy in front of their house while flipping them the bird. Ramona and Cerise because I want a “Werewolf? No, wolfwere” interaction and also for this whole thing to end with Ramona getting Clawdeen’s number. Enemies to lovers arc, annoying little sisters in full force, all that.

I also would want Cupid to come because I just want them all to look at her like “Cupid, you have some explaining to do”.

Idk, I could have it that later when the Evil Queen escapes via something in the Catacombs/Labyrinth it’s revealed that she manipulated things by causing the exact right people to find the exact right documentation at the exact right time. Casting spells from her mirror prison like the villainous queen she literally is.

[vandaliatraveler]

“Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.”

- Ellis Peters

Photos from a hike this evening in Elizabeth’s Woods at Toms Run Preserve. From top: Azure bluet (Houstonia caerulea); a diminutive spring peeper (Pseudacris crucifer) hiding in the leaf litter; rue anemone (Thalictrum thalictroides); blackhaw viburnum (Viburnum prunifolium); lavender variation of dwarf larkspur (Delphinium tricorne); golden ragwort (Packera aurea); Jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum); blue cohosh (Caulophyllum thalictroides); and a very shy Eastern box turtle (Terrapene carolina carolina).

[soup-scope]

hey y’all i’m pretty sure imp!Kody is dead 💀💀

i saw some people say he was alive and i rewatched the imperium (all the bits with kody/freelancer/gavin) to see if he really did die or not

yeah he’s dead. that’s the reason gavin didn’t kill lasko after he suffocated freelancer because he was still haunted by kody’s death

👍👍