When I lived on the farm, my step-dad had a license for explosives.
No, he wasn’t a spy or a registered terrorist or anything like that. He had a well-drilling business, and a well-drilling license, which allowed you to purchase and own TNT.
As a teen, this was kinda cool, as I got to watch him blow up a couple of massive boulders that were in our way.
The first one was in our field, and was wasting a large bit of land. The guys that cleared the land decades before decided to just leave this rock alone. (Way too much effort to move it.)
The second one was up on our wooded hill, above the “shop/house” that we eventually moved into. We had to get our concrete cistern (for water) into the ground so that it wouldn’t freeze in the winter. Bamblooey, we blew that one up too, though I seem to remember that someone almost got blown up in the process.
Anyway, don’t play with TNT; it stings your bones.
- Daniel
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Wait… you’re supposed to have a license for explosives?
That would explain why my high school science teacher was so nervous about my junior year science project…
It involved the dangers of household chemicals and the things one could make from them… like semtex.
Then there was the volkswagen incident… I think that driveway is still partly glass.
More taxis!
Wowsa.
Taxi is done, and on the way.
I had an inground swimming pool that I ran on grocery store chemicals, as anything that says it is for a pool is instantly priced up 300% by retailers.
My pool ran on liquid chlorine bleach that I got at the grocery as well as flats of baking soda to adjust for Ph balance. Even muratic acid was cheaper by 1/3 in the paint department instead of ‘outdoor leisure’. I always felt the Authority were watching me as I left the grocery store with gallons of bleach and flats of baking soda. For those of you that own swimming pools, you can reduce your expenses considerably if you go around the ‘pool’ department. Dont take my word for it, search for grocery swimming pool chemicals http://www.poolsolutions.com/gd/grocery.html
As always, be very careful and be proud to save hundreds per seaon on pool stuff.
(The only item I would buy in the pool department was chlorine shock.)
Yeah, I have a pool, but I don’t have the focus or time to do the maintenance myself. But someday, I’m going to have to learn how to do it, I’m sure.