[TheForge] Hard to split

[Jerry Frost]

So Don, is your son's name, by any chance . . . Murphy?

Frosty
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If it ain't forged
it ain't real.
Wrought iron is.
The FrostWorks

Meadow Lakes, AK.


From: <PlumDon at aol.com>


>
> 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.
>
>