u/BeaglishJane

FINAL UPDATE: Guys, I KNOW it isn’t going to make any money. I posted as a way to help my husband understand that, despite what the pruners said, he isn’t going to sell a multi-ton log to someone for a thousand dollars. MY plan was to keep some of it for projects and cut the rest for firewood. I spoke to a homesteader friend of mine who is going to bring out his mobile saw tomorrow and do just that. We get rid of a 50 foot half-rotted tree, he gets a bunch of firewood for this winter. 🤝

Disclaimer: I know next to nothing about processing trees or lumber.

We recently moved in and had a huge dead oak in the back. It was about 150ish years old. It obviously needed taken down due to the sprawling branches being supremely rotted. I’d like to use some of it personally, but other than that, I don’t know who would want it or how much we should ask for it, if anything. We’re in Ohio if that helps. Thanks!

Edit: I’ve shown my husband this thread, and you’ve helped me convince him he isn’t going to sell a multi-ton log on Facebook marketplace for thousands. I think we’re going to cut some so I can have wood for a couple of projects I want to do, and then use the rest for firewood. We have some folks who use wood for heating their home, so it will have a home eventually.

This is Honey Bunny. She’s almost 3 years old. I got her by way of a patient of mine. The patient’s sister was dating a guy who was a back yard breeder of pit bulls. The patient told me the boyfriend was going to kill/dump a runty pup he couldn’t sell. We ended up convincing the patient’s sister to sneak the dog out. I met up with them in a shady part of town for the handoff. She was TINY, like, shouldn’t have been away from mom. Thankfully, I had a big ole blockhead boy at home who immediately claimed her as his baby.

Humphrey was a rescue also. He had been a long-timer at the county shelter. I got him vaccinated, spayed, and out the door for $30. He was discounted. Nobody wanted an adult black and white pit bull. Joke’s on them, he was absolutely amazing.

A few months after I brought Honey home, Humphrey got sick. This was a man who was ALWAYS hungry. He had always been on the thicker side, but his appetite started slowing and he was rapidly losing weight. The vets couldn’t figure out what was wrong. His labs were fine, he had quite a bit of arthritis in his hips, so they thought maybe it was pain related. Within a month, he was emaciated looking. The vet finally said we needed to do an ultrasound. He was full of cancer. Likely from mast cell tumor. He had little bumps on him, but I thought they were just dog moles. Turns out, that was the cancer. He was gone within 2 weeks. We were all gutted. He was such a fantastically good boy.

After finding out mast cell was common in pit bulls, I did an embark DNA health test on Honey. Not only does she have a very high likelihood of developing mast cell tumors, she was REALLY REALLY inbred. She has a 57% inbreeding coefficient, which I guess is damn near Hapsburg levels.

Well, today I found one of those “moles” on Honey’s head. I’m calling the vet as soon as they open. I’m fucking terrified.

ETA: the last pic is my sweet Humfee boy.

Kansas City BBQ cup noodles, microwaved premade Italian meatballs, and an alani. I normally don’t eat like this, but I’ve been doing house renovations and ripping carpet out of my new (to me) house for the past week.

I’m in rural Ohio. Lots of hickory, pine, and oak trees on my property. They house lots of critters, but I haven’t seen one like this before. It didn’t bite or sting, just crawled around on my shoulder under my shirt. Tia!

Im going to give some back story: I just moved into a new house. The house was formerly owned by an elderly woman. During the purchasing process, she was a little weird but we thought it was because she was in her nineties and lived alone. She did have an absolute monster of a Doberman also. She apparently bred and showed them.

Things got even weirder when we took possession of the house because her family left almost everything in the house. I’m guessing the elderly woman went into long term care. We found dishes in the cupboards, her bedside commode, everything. It’s been hell trying to get the house ready and cleaned for us to move in. The neighbors said she and her husband (before he died) were a little eccentric and pretty paranoid. The neighbor who told us this lived beside them for 40+ years.

We’ve been cleaning out cupboards in the kitchen, and came across this bucket wedged in the very back of a closet where cleaning supplies were kept. I thought it might be something they used for putting out fires, like a bucket of sand, since they had SEVERAL fire extinguishers stored in there too. My daughter opened it, and it legit looks like charred bones. I always thought cremains were whitish, this looks straight up charred. Like it was done at home or something.

I’m pretty sure they’re dog bones, but I’m hoping to get a little more clarity, or maybe some direction of where to go from here. My daughter is freaked out, thinking they burned up a child and kept their bones (she’s pretty dramatic, but I get it in this situation)