Wood-Pile Woes

Even though the price of oil is in free-fall these days, a cord of wood remains significantly more expensive than last year.  A temporary solution (while we work on weatherproofing our venerable house) is cutting our own wood from "out back."  With the limited size of our work force (Whidbey and I), this isn't the most time-effective solution possible, but it does help a little bit.

So at this point, most of our cord wood is bought and delivered.  Either way, harvested or delivered, a fair amount of stacking is involved in getting this wood out of the way and seasoned.  The new wood shed (this summer's project) is a wonderful addition, but apparently I'm still getting the hang of stacking.  Despite growing up with the annual wood-stacking chores and practicing the cross-hatching necessary to provide stability to the ends of the stack, my talents in this department seem to be still under development; my wood pile fell over.  Fortunately, it happened when no small people were around, but it's always a bit frustrating to be sent back to "Go" without collecting $200.  I guess more practice isn't such a bad thing.