There are worse things than wood to be up to here in.

Specially in a woodshed.

Incidentally, the particular log that inspired all this was a 24" sugar maple that has been laying out in the woods---I mean, AIR DRYING--since the great ice storm of 98 when I had to cut it down.
Past its prime. I did, in my crude way, mill some 30" boards, quarter-sawn, FREEHAND, out of it. I will probably make sign plaques or something like that out of them. They will take a lot of planing, though, which is something I enjoy doing.

When there's time.

W-O