The Woods

When my father drove, I was sitting on the passenger side, we were on my way to Grandpa about 25 minutes east of Dubuque. The first thing we had to do when we got there was to wear our coat and then grab our bow from behind and close my door gently. Through the field, there were weeds and high grasses under my boots, outdoors, when we got off we reached barbed wire. Then we walked through the mountain of pine trees and we walked 30 yards into the forest until the position of my tree.

Fire is troublesome. It started in a cluttered forest. Problems in the forest. Many people manage their own forest here. They determine the size of the forest by type, width, health condition, and future growth. People under a tree usually need 4 years of rotation. Choose a tree. Cut them out and sell them, and get stable and uniform revenue. Take out the weed tree. Sometimes seeds need to come out. Our maple syrup producer pulls out all the tree of nuts. They do not want the squirrel to dig a pipe of many miles on the maple tree faucet. Sometimes seeds can get sick. In the managed forest, they come out, and here they become firewood, or siding or flooring for wood poisoning. The trees are cut down, felled down, some vacation is taken for the benefit of the forest, in most cases it is cut down, split, stacked, aged, moved and stacked

Our friends on the mountain brought trees to us. We are very lucky because Merv does not care about cutting, splitting and stacking wood. He likes to plant trees and protect them. The final stage of the tree is not attractive to him. Our tree is dry and beautiful in the barn. Of course, it is not very beautiful. The bark is dry, cracked and falling. Insects inhabiting trees will follow and leave behind their own degradation traces. We brought beautiful old cracked trees to the mud room of the house. By the time the bark comes out, the insect may complete its descent process, but it is not so. It is more chaotic. We only bring one or two parts to the kitchen to make or throw a fire. In any case, the confusion will be more chaotic, ash of the fireplace, ash of the window, fine ashes gathered at the top of the carpentry.

When making wooden furniture, there are often several wood chips. Because it is made of wood. It is really a problem if you routinely inhale the wood chips at the level where the sawmill workers are exposed. Furniture that may still contain wood chips must be labeled. Since mercury can cause birth defects, all fish containing high levels of mercury (tuna, swordfish, marlin, squid, tilapia etc.) are covered by Prop 65. You should not eat a lot of fish during pregnancy, but most of us should be more concerned about mercury poisoning, everyone can get it from too many fish