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If Santa Claus gives good people candy and toys in their stocking, and bad people coal in theirs, what do I have to do to get biochar in mine?

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Well, if his sled is all wood, I'd say burn it!

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Santa hears your prayers.. so if you are good, you will receive biochar. Writing a letter to the North Pole as a backup might not hurt, either. You could always pyrolize some wood yourself if you don’t feel like waiting.
 
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Well, Ms Pearl, you know that Mom's have an in with Santa... something to do with Misseltoe...
If you ask Mom nice maybe she will put a good word in with Santa.
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Ask for wooden toys

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Ask for wood as your toy.
Then make it into biochar.
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Curiously, a "lump of coal in your Christmas stocking" was originally a wish that you would would be kept warm in the coming year.

And then, I suppose, abundance ensued, and a cultural shift that this was a negative thing, uncool, a down vote, an insult.

If there was a bag of biochar in my Christmas stocking, I would know that someone worked their ass off to feed my garden and pay me a compliment. Pretty nice.
 
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If you were to time your Christmas fire correctly he would have to quench the fire to come down resulting in the incomplete burn after pyrolosis  leaving you with beautiful biochar.

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I have been totally amused by the responses to my silly question :D
Thank you for all the great comments!!
I have to admit, function stacking Santa wins in my book. Make HIM do the work for me! I love it :D

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If you've been really good, Santa will urinate on the biochar so that it's already inoculated.

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Dc Stewart wrote:If you've been really good, Santa will urinate on the biochar so that it's already inoculated.



HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Thank you!  I have not laughed out loud in quite a while.  I can just picture it.
Maybe his eight tiny reindeer, too!

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Susan Mené wrote:Maybe his eight tiny reindeer, too!


I think they'll be leaving their gifts for Pearl out in the backyard. :)

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Stephen B. Thomas wrote:
I think they'll be leaving their gifts for Pearl out in the backyard. :)


Works for me!! :D

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