Sentences with phrase «own firewood»

I live in the mountains where I drop trees, cut them into rounds, and use a gas - powered splitter to chop them into firewood.

Jarden founder Martin Franklin has built the company through acquisitions, making it one of the largest diversified consumer products makers in the United States, selling everything from firewood to condoms.

The approximately 645 square - foot terrace offers plenty of room to stockpile that firewood.

This luxury property features panoramic views of the village and surrounding Alps and enough indoor firewood storage to ensure not having to leave the house for quite some time.

And, this past January, the company donated firewood to homes in New Brunswick's Acadian peninsula that were left without power for weeks after a severe ice storm.

Others were bludgeoned to death with whatever he could find — in one case a piece of firewood.

6 houses, three cars, stocks, bonds, annuity, various real estate notes and some old furniture that the boomers would consider quality but millennials would think «firewood».

To use an abstract example, Savannah, Georgia does not have many businesses specializing in firewood.

If you condemn entirely and utterly without ensuring recognition ise given for praise worthy material then you are as bad as their mythical sky - daddy which has a very warped sense of «justice» in condemning to death otherwise good people for gathering firewood on the wrong day of the week.

1.5 billion Muslims reject Jesus as their savior and they make for great firewood in hell.

If you are employed to supply firewood to a Buddhist monastery and the monastery required you to chant «Amitabha» while loading firewood into the monastery courtyard, but you being a devout evangelical christian refuses to chant.

And because of that the monastery terminated your contract to supply firewood.

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.

We could ignore the whole season and pleasantly go about our daily routines, stacking firewood out by the garage and kneading dough in the kitchen.

One day in 1970, so the story goes, the women of the village spontaneously began to hug the local trees, their precious source of firewood, stopping New Delhi corporations from logging the forests for foreign export.

Among those attending is Lucrecia Valencia, 40, who lost her husband and son, as well has her right arm and left leg, when they were going out to collect firewood near their home.

The shortage of firewood is not a function of obvious injustices in ownership and distribution.

For example, just as those preoccupied with «justice» have paid little attention to the subsistence farmer, so also they have paid little attention to the world's most urgent energy crisis — the shortage of firewood.

They have been too little concerned with the simple technological changes needed for more efficient use of firewood as a fuel for cooking.

Paul did NOT expect to be bitten by a snake as he was gathering firewood.

Again, with like sarcasm, he ridicules the entire faith and vogue of idols: one cuts a tree for firewood, using it for heating and for cooking; but still a sizable piece remains, until as an afterthought it is given to a craftsman who, with a deal of labor, shapes it into a pretense of human form — and then men bow down to it and say, «Deliver me, for thou art my god!»

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

Though the scene hardly varies — it's one end of the aluminum - sided house, with two rectangular windows over two garage doors — signs of changing seasons are visible: A barbecue grill appears in one photo; a big stack of firewood in another.

just to verify from one who lives in Montana this week I split firewood, had to miss deer crossing the road, collected eggs from my chickens, chopped wood, ate chicken fried steak, rented movies from 1960, drove my truck, but sadly my horse died this summer so I am one person who lives in Montana who does not have a horse.

Start seasoning that firewood now.

Whether it is the sprawl of deserts or the loss of tropical forests as the world's poor cut trees for firewood and clear land for agriculture, or the ineluctable warming of the planet as vehicles and factories deposit millions of tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, «economic pressures lie behind them all» (Tolba 1991, p. 10).

In both Mauritania and the mountainous areas of Rwanda, the demand for firewood is ten times the sustainable yield of remaining forests.

Luther recalled that his mother used to go out, like many others to gather the firewood for the house from the surrounding forests.

When they arrived at Taravihitra, firewood was fastened to the posts to burn them.

Further, larger Inga tree branches can be used for firewood — an aspect that tackles another important issue linked to deforestation.

Unlike some competitors, its locations feature a firewood - burning pit that they cook pork, chicken and ribs on.

Now living on the other side of the world in New Zealand, this bread brings me back to crisp, sunny, winter Sundays when lunch was a feast and dessert a well - deserved pick - me - up after a morning filled with winter chores; stacking firewood and clearing the paths of snow.

Relish the scent of crackling firewood?

Firewood Well, obviously.

In 1994 land use and income derivation was primarily focused on animal production and collecting activities (e.g. firewood and fruits).

The introduction of trees to form agroforestry systems provided sources of firewood, timber, fruits and shade, but also helped in erosion control, protecting water courses through the stabilization of the soil and as wind breaks, regulating the velocity of the winds.

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?)

In 1794, Jefferson had his slaves plant 900 peach trees, which also made excellent firewood from the dead wood pruned each winter.

The alternative is a bivouac in the open on astorm - blasted mountaintop without the benefit of firewood.

Wilson, who is both editor and publisher, stirs in fiction, book reviews and classified ads with articles on all aspects of boatbuilding, including such spellbinders as «When the Keel Drops Off» and «How I Almost Used My Kayak As Firewood.»

The women you do see in the market are often carrying heavy loads of firewood.

I peeled potatoes, washed dishes, gathered firewood, and generally ran and fetched — and found time to hunt a few squirrels, too.

Women are confined to their compounds, expected to handle the traditional household duties of cooking, cleaning, and child - raising, plus waiting in line for water, firewood, and food rations.

He is softened by his clothes, too: a literal lack of armor, no sword at his side, his only steel an axe for firewood.

This bark all came from our firewood stash and fire - starting pile, which is right where it will go when we're done with them.

But then, the next day rolls around and the kids are more than happy to ride into the woods on the trailer of the tractor while we haul more firewood up to be cut and stacked, and before we know it, a whole morning has gone by and so much has been done.

Each time I mentioned it to Steve, I saw the slightly panicked look in his eyes that said, «a swing would be great, I'd love to make a swing, but how about I cut that firewood I need to so that we don't all freeze this winter?»

«She told us stories of selling pencils on the street and how her family had to chop up their piano to sell as firewood,» her daughter said.

I use most of the tree for firewood to heat the house or boil sap and then we either chip what's left to use in the gardens and around the fruit trees or we burn it to help the soil along.

I quickly take advantage of having no children in my radius to run the chainsaw in a duel effort to gather firewood and reclaim that pasture from the hands of Mother Nature.