Good post! it should settle a new war before it gets started. Since woodworking is and wood carving is my FCF trade as well as my trade at public rendezvous I now have a period appropriate finishing material, a fifty pound sack of grits. I can eat them and use them for woodworking, cleaning my hands and maybe even line the fire pit with them when the ground gets too saturated with water to light a fire.
All I need now is some of dat der vegemite and I can make my own root beer which is a lot better than that canned stuff.
I remember when i worked at Old World Wisconsin as a Costumed Interpreter at the Schulz Farm exhibit. It seems that that farm portrayed something in history that we have lost in this era, frugality. My understanding of the word is the act of making things work together and using what you have to survive. In the 1850s on a German Immigrant farm most of anything was home made and some of it came from a by product of something else.
Onward In Gods Service
Randall A Hermanson
Pioneer Commander
FCF 1998
OP#1 Woodstock Il
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In a message dated 1/4/00 6:20:35 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:> So, in other words, grits is a chemical cocktail while vegetate is all
> natural
> ingredients.Actually its like this, you see when you are doing woodworking or auto body
repair you need this stuff called sandpaper. Well, the sandpaper is made out
of grits and there are many different kinds of grits, There is 40 grit, 100
grit, 250 grit, and 600 grits with 40 grit being the roughest. Now I have
noticed that this grit is attached to the paper by this green sticky
substance of which I can only presume is vegimite. So, I have decided that if
I wanted to remove the grit from the paper, I would have to use Root Beer as
it has an acidic and corrosive property to it that just dissolves the
vegimite. This is what I would have on hand if I ever needed to do any of
this. And to clean up with, the grit is usually put into a hand cleaner that
can dissolve motor oil pretty quickly. Some call it Pumice, or volcano
rocks, but it is grit nonetheless.Iron Mike
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