Sunday, March 2, 2014

wood stacked

A friend of a friend came and cut up the giant tree limb that fell in the last ice storm. (We're having another one right now. Three weeks from spring.) He wouldn't let me pay him anything, even when I pointed out that chain saws don't run on air.



Next year he'll come back and split it for me, and it will keep me warm for a couple of weeks at least. Maybe even a month. It's burr oak, which I'm sure doesn't produce the heat that white oak does, but it's still oak.

But the stack is considerably smaller than the brush pile (which he is going to haul away.)


I am fortunate in my friends, as well as my near misses.

6 comments:

  1. What a nice guy!

    I love that shot of the stacked wood, something so orderly and pretty about it. And yay for warm fires in the future!

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    1. I have almost as many pictures of wood as I do of rocks. I never tire of them. (Also, they stay pretty still, unlike birds and animals.)

      Mary Anne in Kentucky

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  2. We still haven't cleared away the maple tree that come down in our December ice storm. Of course, we still have lots of snow too, which makes it a little hard to get to I suppose.

    At least when you have a wood stove it doesn't go to waste!

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    1. If the maple was blocking half your driveway you'd have found a way!

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  3. Wow.. indeed you are. Of course I believe that good people attract like minded others.

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