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re: Looking at a stack of firewood and wondering what stories it could tell
Posted on 12/20/25 at 9:46 pm to Lowdermilk
Posted on 12/20/25 at 9:46 pm to Lowdermilk
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You were standing in front of a gas station when this epiphany hit you?????
Yes, looking at firewood.
This post was edited on 12/20/25 at 9:48 pm
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Posted on 12/20/25 at 10:33 pm to weagle1999
I’m thinking who cut it into firewood?
By hand? Power saw?
Rick cord? Full cord?
Seasoned?
Add.
I go hard in trees. We cut all sizes.
By hand? Power saw?
Rick cord? Full cord?
Seasoned?
Add.
I go hard in trees. We cut all sizes.
This post was edited on 12/20/25 at 10:37 pm
Posted on 12/20/25 at 10:56 pm to weagle1999
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What animals took refuge in the shade of those trees? Or climbed up the side?
What was going on in the world when those trees first sprouted with natures hope of lasting?
One piece has evidence of a long broken off limb, slightly healed over. What happened on the day that it broke? That event echoes forward through time for me to ponder it in a rack at a gas station.
And now the wood is all split, and the stories will soon become smoke and ash.
I like the cut of your jib. I often have similar thoughts. Like you find an old coin and wonder how many hands it's passed through, what it's bought and the cost to get it.
It's worthy of a good piece
Especially that last line
This post was edited on 12/20/25 at 10:59 pm
Posted on 12/20/25 at 11:04 pm to TexasTiger08
quote:y’all should cuddle
Where do you live? If I’m in the area, let’s have some gummies.
Posted on 12/20/25 at 11:14 pm to weagle1999
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And now the wood is all split, and the stories will soon become smoke and ash.
Indeed, a seed, nature decreed, grows slowly cross the century,
Fed by its roots, a witness mute, to love, to war, to treachery,
Its knowledge stored, in bark and core, withstanding storms, and ice and claw,
Tales it could tell, until it's felled, by man, with blade, or axe, or saw,
Its mem'ry hoard, now stacked by cord, its stories told in flame and flash,
To warm our bones, its wisdoms sown, upon the wind, in smoke, and ash
Posted on 12/21/25 at 2:25 am to weagle1999
How many weeds are involved?
Just kidding, I get moments like that too.
Just kidding, I get moments like that too.
Posted on 12/21/25 at 5:38 am to weagle1999
Woah baw Im 14 and this is deep
Posted on 12/21/25 at 6:45 am to weagle1999
quote:
Looking at a stack of firewood and wondering what stories it could tell
quote:
What animals took refuge in the shade of those trees? Or climbed up the side?
What was going on in the world when those trees first sprouted with natures hope of lasting?
Same could be said about a stack of two by sixes at Lowes.
Posted on 12/21/25 at 6:58 am to OK Roughneck
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Smoking a blunt is the only time I can deep think like that.
Posted on 12/21/25 at 7:10 am to SundayFunday
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I have a trilobite(?) fossil that’s 250 million years old
Posted on 12/21/25 at 7:25 am to Bama and Beer
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I have a trilobite(?) fossil that’s 250 million years old
Trilobites went extinct 300 million years ago.
Posted on 12/21/25 at 7:59 am to aTmTexas Dillo
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Trilobites went extinct 300 million years ago.
Okay, okay, so he has some guys art project.
Posted on 12/21/25 at 10:09 am to SundayFunday
Re the Trilobite:
No trees to cover hill sides, no grasses to cover ground in drier areas. Hellish runoff when rains happened.
Ugly creatures like Tullymonsters were evolving and scorpions were out there eating something.
Algae were at the bottom of the food chain, and chitinozoans and graptolites were in the water with him (or her).
Has anyone written about sexual dimorphism in trilobites?
No trees to cover hill sides, no grasses to cover ground in drier areas. Hellish runoff when rains happened.
Ugly creatures like Tullymonsters were evolving and scorpions were out there eating something.
Algae were at the bottom of the food chain, and chitinozoans and graptolites were in the water with him (or her).
Has anyone written about sexual dimorphism in trilobites?
Posted on 12/21/25 at 10:25 am to weagle1999
I will say, I have actually thought about this before OP. My family has a large amount of acreage in Mercer Co here in Kentucky. It's a few miles away from Perryville.
As any of you fellow Civil War buffs will know on here, there was a significant battle fought at Perryville in 1862. Braxton Bragg had brought Confederate forces into Kentucky to try and help sway the Commonwealth to the Confederacy. (We had seceded and had a Confederate government set up in Bowling Green, with the Union government remaining in Frankfort. The state legislature and the governor did not see eye to eye on the issue of secession at the time when everyone else in the South began seceding, not to mention Kentucky was almost immediately occupied by Union forces once the war broke out. But I digress...)
Anyway, Buell and Union forces tried to intercept Bragg at Perryville. At the end of the battle the CSA held the battlefield resulting in victory, but due to supply issues, had to leave, which pretty much resulted in the end of the Confederacy having a hold in Kentucky.
I say all that to say my dad has found various Civil War items on our property over the years. My favorite is a cannon ball that I used as a kid for weight lifting to stay in shape for baseball
I always wonder how those items got there, who left them, etc. We go down there in the fall every year and cut down firewood from the copious amount of trees on the property, and I do often think of the Civil War veterans who clearly passed through our property and left things behind and probably lost their lives a few miles away probably days after they dropped them.
As any of you fellow Civil War buffs will know on here, there was a significant battle fought at Perryville in 1862. Braxton Bragg had brought Confederate forces into Kentucky to try and help sway the Commonwealth to the Confederacy. (We had seceded and had a Confederate government set up in Bowling Green, with the Union government remaining in Frankfort. The state legislature and the governor did not see eye to eye on the issue of secession at the time when everyone else in the South began seceding, not to mention Kentucky was almost immediately occupied by Union forces once the war broke out. But I digress...)
Anyway, Buell and Union forces tried to intercept Bragg at Perryville. At the end of the battle the CSA held the battlefield resulting in victory, but due to supply issues, had to leave, which pretty much resulted in the end of the Confederacy having a hold in Kentucky.
I say all that to say my dad has found various Civil War items on our property over the years. My favorite is a cannon ball that I used as a kid for weight lifting to stay in shape for baseball
I always wonder how those items got there, who left them, etc. We go down there in the fall every year and cut down firewood from the copious amount of trees on the property, and I do often think of the Civil War veterans who clearly passed through our property and left things behind and probably lost their lives a few miles away probably days after they dropped them.Posted on 12/21/25 at 11:23 am to weagle1999
Shel Silverstein, that you?
Posted on 12/21/25 at 11:49 am to CapitalTiger
Who ate the Baby?????
Posted on 12/21/25 at 11:51 am to weagle1999
You’re overthinking it.
Get more meaningful interests. Storytelling over renewable resources is … you know.
Get more meaningful interests. Storytelling over renewable resources is … you know.
Posted on 12/21/25 at 11:55 am to weagle1999
One day you will come to the understanding that the classic 'The Giving Tree' is a cautionary tale about a self-centered a-hole "friend".
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