Passersby...

[Old Hippie]

This morning I spent a couple of hours helping our university grounds crew get rid of some large wood left from felling beetle-killed pines. I'll dispose of the wood, one piece at a time, all winter.

Anyway it's sunny, it was about 30C, and I was literally running with sweat. A citizen came by on his morning walk and told me I needed a partner to help me load wood. I gathered from his dress that he meant the comment in the abstract.

I told him what my father used to say: "There are two kinds of people who don't mind hard work. Those who do it, because they know that's how things get done. And those who don't, because they can watch the rest of us do it all day long."

Then we had a nice little conversation about organic gardening, and I went back to hoisting 40-kg chunks of pine into the truck after a little rest.

(Point? You wanted a point? )

:ootd:

[Tartan Shortbread Jock]

Every story has a point!, the point in this story.
You helped the University crew, that's a good citizen.
Good on you, kind wishes.

[Bugbear]

I believe in compost; good for you.

[george7]

This sounds a lot like a word problem to an American... (as this American does the conversions from metric to standard in his head)

[Old Hippie]

Good on you, kind wishes.

Thanks, Jock! Good to see you sitting up and taking nourishment.

I believe in compost; good for you.

Compost is good. So are mycorrhizae, nematodes, beneficial insects, and worms. We're maybe TOO successful with the worms -- the birds look at the gardens and see "All You Can Eat Buffet" signs.

This sounds a lot like a word problem to an American... (as this American does the conversions from metric to standard in his head)

I'm bilingual. It was about 85 degrees, and I was tossing 80-90 pound rounds of wood around. FWIW, most Canadians I know still think in terms of miles and pounds. We have this funny thing where we never mention distance, only time: "I live a half-hour out of town."

We buy cars that get "litres per 100 Km" (a measure of consumption for a standard distance) but everybody talks about "miles per gallon" (a measure of distance for a standard amount of fuel).

To confuse things even more, when a Canadian talks about "miles per gallon" they're talking Imperial Gallons instead of Wine (US) Gallons. An Imperial gallon is 5 quarts, so a car that gets 40 mpg in the US will get 50 mpg in Canada.

[george7]

To confuse things even more, when a Canadian talks about "miles per gallon" they're talking Imperial Gallons instead of Wine (US) Gallons. An Imperial gallon is 5 quarts, so a car that gets 40 mpg in the US will get 50 mpg in Canada.

Probably more than that... the powers at will have tweaked the gas. My 45mpg Toyota that I bought gets 38mpg with the formula of gas they sell in Florida. It was fun driving across the country last summer seeing how much differently my engine runs on different fuels and at different altitudes.