Racks, Stacks And Cribs

While the end of last week was spent processing wood chunks into small enough pieces to be considered kindling, we have moved on to the next step. Now have a crib full of kindling pieces along with the green garden cart, our tan pull behind cart and several tubs filled to the brim. My garage/holding area/kiln is filled with kindling as we heat up the coils in the floor, run fans for circulation and crank up the dehumidifiers to dry the kindling before we can begin the next process of bundling.

For those of you who are old enough to remember, there used to be a commercial that played on TV for years. There was a housewife who needed a powerful cleaner tackle the task of her house duties. The scrub bucket was sitting by her feet, a mop right next to her, she twisted the top off of the bottle she was aiming at the screen and took a deep whiff of the cleaner before delivering her line. With near jubilation she remarks, “smells just like a Carolina Pine forest!”. The line doesn’t truly fit our non-pine area of the country, but the sentiment is right on.

That single line of dialog has stuck with me for years and even decades. I use it when I walk into the woods after a period of being away. I declare it, sometimes loudly so all the cows can hear, after the barn has been de-mucked, lime sprinkled and a new fresh layer of wood chips added to the loafing area. I speak it out loud in the house after the floor still is drying after being mopped, it doesn’t matter if I am the only one home or not or for that matter if I used a pine, lemon, orange of bleach smelling cleaner. And now I speak it out loud every time I walk through the garage. Any time there are good odors from wood products, that dialog comes forth.

The smell of wood drying is pleasant and very strong right now with all the fiber in the garage at this time. Although visitors remark about the garage smelling good with only the regular pallets of firewood bundles in our inventory, I was nose-blind to the subtle odor until we got this influx of drying kindling. I’m going to enjoy the smells while I can for soon the garage will be back down to only our regular weekly inventory levels.

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