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Can You Dig It?
Mar. 15th, 2022 03:52 pmWe got a small bit of rain today (and light snow in the higher mountains) as a weak cold system moved through, so I decided to go ahead and re-light the fire in the fireplace for a while. It's been several days since I let the fire die, so the coals were completely cold, and that meant I could go ahead and dig the ashes as well.
I'm glad we have all of these N95 masks around, because that meant that when I dug all of the ashes out of the fireplace, I could mask up and not inhale all of that fine ash, which was a hazard I hadn't considered in the pre-pandemic days.
I could have gone ahead and taken the bag of ashes out to the dumpster, but I waited until the garbage company came and dumped it. Putting the bag of ashes as the first thing in the dumpster generally means that the next load dumped doesn't have stuff get stuck, as the heaviest thing ends up being above everything else when they tip it, forcing everything out of the bin.
I'm glad we have all of these N95 masks around, because that meant that when I dug all of the ashes out of the fireplace, I could mask up and not inhale all of that fine ash, which was a hazard I hadn't considered in the pre-pandemic days.
I could have gone ahead and taken the bag of ashes out to the dumpster, but I waited until the garbage company came and dumped it. Putting the bag of ashes as the first thing in the dumpster generally means that the next load dumped doesn't have stuff get stuck, as the heaviest thing ends up being above everything else when they tip it, forcing everything out of the bin.
