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First a disclaimer.  I'm no expert on the subject, just my understanding of the science at work. Oh, and I am an old fart... and tree do reveal secrets:-) Ah the color and figure of a piece of wood! It is enough to send the heart of a woodworker racing and his forehead pearling with sweat... And then you go in La la Land thinking about what you could do with such a piece. Why is that? This object of desire for a woodworker was never cheap!   Lots of labour and time between the tree standing and the boards ready to be worked on at your bench. Yet, to this day, many still hold the common piece of wood as being cheap! As in: Ah, it should not cost much to build that out of wood, why so much?? Because it is not made of termite barf (OSB, MDF) being solid wood and constructed solidly (No Allen keys required), it should outlast us all... would be one reason Even if using all "Free wood" there is a lot of time and experiences that goes behind building something out of "wood...

We have been going thru our combined Christmas decorations, and figured out that we are overdue for a big clean up.  So she gathered a bunch of stuff to donate to the school. Inspired she went to her mother to do similar :-) While she was gone, Rudy and I stayed behind to catch up on some work AKA Honey Do List I was hoping that the rain will stop long enough for my lumber in the truck to dry a bit before coming inside, but it does not look its going to stop soon. Another whammy system for this weekend, so... Well at least my wood has been washed... Look at that figure showing up. Ohhhhh.  First was to make some room in the garage to stack my wood somewhere on the floor. Thankfully we have company at home (the other set of grand parents to the Grand peanuts) With Steve help, it was quick work.. Start to piled it on a wood palette Took longer to find spacers of uniform thickness than to piled it... That wood was cut end of June 2018 and sliced cut end of Oct 2018. (4 months) It...

Remember those few logs I kept, last time we cut a few trees around my property? Well, we just came back from an old Airforce buddy and resawn these and a few pieces of firewood with his new toys :-) I know, sound like a crazy thing to do, 4 hours drive to go, then 4 to come back, but it's a good excuse as any to go check on an old friend. We are a small military and we tend to feel like family. So we tend to look after each other. The last time I had my friend Doug over, we loaded the two big logs I saved, into our truck. Doug and I loaded the two big logs then I added a few more pieces from  my firewood pile to play with and..  … to prevent the logs from moving around in the truck bed. They have been there for over a few weeks now, but we just got an opening in our retiree`s schedule for an overnighter at his place :-) Rudy is ready to go, he dragged my coat to the floor, sat on it  besides my loafers and his froggie He knows, I cant leave without him :-) Monday Jean we...