We have a pellet stove to heat our basement. Of course, you need to fuel the stove with pellets. This year we purchased a couple of tons of pellets which, as of earlier today, were still sitting in our driveway. Not a good situation for the pellets, even though they are covered with a couple of layers of plastic. I know from past experience that the only way to keep the pellets dry is to keep them in something that keeps the water outside, and plastic wrap doesn’t do that.
So, I moved 1 ton of the pellets from the driveway to the basement today. Luckily, a wheelbarrow made the process as straightforward as it could be without a pallet-jack and an unobstructed path to push a ton of pellets through. So I’ve got the pallet about 3/4 moved to the basement when I have the following exchange with the daughter:
daughter: Dad, I picked up the spilled pellets for you.
Me: OK, thanks you.
daughter: How many bags of pellets are there?
Me: 100 bags.
daughter: 100 bags! Holy moly, that’s a lotta friggin’ bags!
Perhaps you had to be there, but hearing that last statement from the mouth of a 3-year old struck me as pretty friggin’ amusing.