It's Amazing

The color changes and settling that your CSS wood goes thru during the year. I've got about 4 cords of mixed ash, maple, box elder and some red oak...........with this crazy hot summer the wood has shrunk down a bit and has changed from the creamy fresh split color to sun-baked white and is now turning darker grey. Save for the red oak which is still that rusty color. I've never looked at my wood that way before.............not being sexual either!

Y'all have turned me into a bigger nut than my neighbors already think I am

It's okay to be a bit nutty. Just don't get fruity.

Ha, that's funny!

I've noticed the folks up the road slow down and scope my place out when they come by. They like to see what the old man is up to. When I was younger it was crazy now I'm the eccentric dude with all the piles of firewood.

You will know when you have made it when people come by and ask if you are selling firewood...

LOL. Check! You can't see my house from the road, but a guy I had over to buy a biodiesel tank from me asked me if I was in business selling wood.... And I'm not even into my first winter yet. I don't really know how much I'll burn.. But I KNOW I don't have 3 years worth yet.

Yep. Had that happen.... Wood that seasoned takes a whole new color.

Stacks in the back and in shed are new. Stacks in the racks are 2 summers old. Anything that is lighter was left in the Barn last summer and Winter. The Sun plays a big part on the bleaching.

I know that bleached gray wood doesn't always mean the wood is all the way seasoned . . . but I do have to admit . . . I always love the look of that gray wood as it just looks "right."

Me too! I was just looking at my wood stacks and comparing the difference between the ones that have been there for 2-3 summers vs. the newer stuff. I was thinking that gray wood is going to come in real handy in a few months.