Sentences with phrase «get firewood»

One of the issues that encouraged me to begin the business is that in Africa girls are sent to get firewood and 68 per cent of rapes occur when they are collecting wood - so there are multiple benefits.

The Green Belt Movement (GBM) was founded by Professor Wangari Maathai in 1977 under the auspices of the National Council of Women of Kenya (NCWK) to respond to the needs of rural Kenyan women who reported that their streams were drying up, their food supply was less secure, and they had to walk further and further to get firewood for fuel and fencing.

Collect food in the forest and chop down trees to get firewood and building materials.

For instance if you kill 30 burning zombies you'll get firewood which can be used to combine with a shotgun to get a flame augmented shotgun.

Project two: A buddy of mine has been after me to come get some firewood from him, so one half - hour later, I have half a bed full of firewood stacked in the back.

It may entail introducing solar cookers that reduce the need to go great distances to get firewood.

I made these place cards from logs that hubby had cut when he was getting the firewood ready for the season.

Would like to know what other symptoms might be from a black widow bite as my boyfriend was getting firewood last night and we have seen black widows in the wood pile?

Some people actually have both a wood stove and a secondary heating method (particularly those who are moving around a lot) for times when getting firewood isn't an option.

My kind hubby, Jonathan, grabbed these pinecones for me several weeks ago while he was getting firewood.

We've got some firewood and we're getting the house toasty and cozy while we decorate our home.

Not exact matches

As James expected the camping party to get back to the useful business of chopping firewood and cooking supper once he had «assuaged the dispute» by his pragmatic observations, so the application of process thinking in reference to the canonical wars now ravaging American higher education should be the means by which faculty might be led back from endless idle arguments to their real and proper work of designing good courses and teaching them well.

But best of all, while there are plenty of savoury dishes to fill you up and get you cooking like this wild chanterelle, caraway and buffalo cheese tart (which would be divine to make ahead and take with you to devour while putting up tents and gathering firewood, no?)

Firewood we are ridiculously behind on, but that's not really my thing until we get to the splitting and stacking stage, which we're not at yet.

After you've gotten home, done all the grocery shopping, have lots of dry firewood in case the power goes out, and remembered to winterize outside first.

We gather firewood, get the fire going and start cooking.

And the arduous work of excavating and plastering the fossil was not the end of the saga, Martill recalls: «Building plaster's got clay in it and takes ages to dry, so we looked for firewood — which is not easy to find in a desert — dug a trench on either side of the bone and lit fires to encourage it to dry.»

«Everybody comes down with their four - wheel - drive trucks, and if they want some firewood they get their winch and they pull a tree out of the ground.

I turned to writing, and when I wasn't writing, I was repairing and maintaining a passive - solar house in the country: shoveling snow, hauling tons of firewood up a steep hill, planting a vegetable garden that didn't get enough sun, and fulfilling various back - to - nature clichés.

i feel better after getting in firewood for the year.

So Joe and I are busy splitting and stacking firewood and I'm scrambling to get a whole bunch of outside projects done before the weather turns.

We've been (rather unhappily) wrapped up in a cold snap that was only supposed to last a couple of weeks... We've been busy gathering chopping, splitting and stacking firewood for winter and I've been scrambling to get as much done outside as I can!

I'd say if you're planning on getting a cabin, definitely come prepared with charcoal for the grill, firewood, and of course, smores essentials.

-LCB-... -RCB- a woman who was collecting firewood got ambushed by two men, who then beat her for trying to resist.

Teaching gets Thomas home early enough to work for several hours in his yard and tend to other chores — such as chopping firewood.

When little susie, (a millennial child) never understood why crazy great Grandma hoarded all that: Canned / jarred food, rubber bands, news papers, firewood and any clothes or shoes she could get hold of, all in her old root cellar?

Fidget is really curious about the outdoors and once, when I was away, got out accidentally when Joe was bringing in firewood.

Getting more options than firewood, dung, child labor and kerosene is critical to advancement in the world's poorest places.

The two billion people on the planet who lack a light bulb or scrabble for firewood for cooking or heat (sometimes getting into knife fights in the process) need affordable, convenient energy sources now — whether from a solar panel or biogas, or from a conventional power plant or propane tank.

Firewood generally needs to be chopped into smaller pieces than those that you will get from the wood merchant.

«I've got the fire pit in the back of the car and we have firewood.

Their insurance company covered the damage and they got a lot of free firewood.»

There, bicycles are an empowering means of transportation for many people, helping them to get to school, to work and to medical facilities, and allowing them to more easily carry everything from water and firewood to livestock.

When the day of the photo shoot came I got a call that newspaper, kindling and firewood was needed.

Add a cute basket to hold your firewood and you've got the perfect winter decor to last all season long!

Try an oversized leather basket to house anything from books and magazines to firewood — get organized and chic at the same time.