[TheForge] Hard to split

[PlumDon at aol.com]

In a message dated 3/3/2008 6:45:25 PM Eastern  Standard Time, 
osan at netlabs.net writes:

> Maybe it is elm.  

About 25 years ago the last of our neighborhood elms finally succumbed  to 
the Dutch Elm Disease. I was able to pick up three nice boles about two feet  
across from the road crews. I didn't have a truck at the time and really  
struggled getting them into and out of my car trunk. Took three trips...they  were 
big and  the trunk was small. But they would make great anvil stumps.  I was 
really tickled to get them. I set them aside to dry and age. One Saturday  about 
six months later my 14 year old son came in from the back yard sweating  like 
a pig. "Hey, Dad", he says, "I finally got those three old stumps of wood  
split up into little pieces for you. Boy were they tough!" 

I was  really stumbling for words but finally was ablt to get out how much I  
appreciated it and that they would burn great this coming winter. So it goes. 
 




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