About half a day of sunshine maybe twice a week is all we're seeing these days. Yesterday was one of those sunny half days, and warm too.
Poppy said, what do you want to do...finish blowing those leaves, or split and stack the rest of that wood up near the garden. Let's do the wood, I said!
First, have you ever tried to split a Sweetgum log? It will beat you to death! Even the heavy steel wedge made only a small split in the log.
Our half day of sunshine was used up on this one log. One log!! Well, we did split one other short piece...just to say we got two of the pieces split and moved to the back porch.
Poppy had warned me that splitting this Sweetgum would not be as quick and easy as the maple we split and moved a week or so ago.
I can remember mama talking about chewing gum from the Sweetgum tree when she was a child.
From an article in "Wood Magazine"...
In the old days youngsters throughout the rural South went to the woods, not the grocery store, for their chewing gum. There they sought a tree with unusual star-shaped leaves, and bark resembling alligator skin. From it they pried off, then popped into their mouths, yellowish brown balls of a fragrant, resinous substance with a licorice-like taste. This treat was the sap of the native Sweetgum tree (Liquidambar Styraciflua).
Thank you for coming along on my boring wood chopping post.
Love,
Henny
Poppy said, what do you want to do...finish blowing those leaves, or split and stack the rest of that wood up near the garden. Let's do the wood, I said!
First, have you ever tried to split a Sweetgum log? It will beat you to death! Even the heavy steel wedge made only a small split in the log.
Poppy swung that heavy sledgehammer over and over and over...
and finally the wedge broke free, but the log was far from being split.
He hammered the wedge into the side of the log. The grain of a Sweet gum goes in all directions.
then finally!!
Our half day of sunshine was used up on this one log. One log!! Well, we did split one other short piece...just to say we got two of the pieces split and moved to the back porch.
Poppy had warned me that splitting this Sweetgum would not be as quick and easy as the maple we split and moved a week or so ago.
I can remember mama talking about chewing gum from the Sweetgum tree when she was a child.
From an article in "Wood Magazine"...
In the old days youngsters throughout the rural South went to the woods, not the grocery store, for their chewing gum. There they sought a tree with unusual star-shaped leaves, and bark resembling alligator skin. From it they pried off, then popped into their mouths, yellowish brown balls of a fragrant, resinous substance with a licorice-like taste. This treat was the sap of the native Sweetgum tree (Liquidambar Styraciflua).
Just for the record...
I helped!
Thank you for coming along on my boring wood chopping post.
Love,
Henny
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