When Pegeen and I moved to the Blue Ridge some 25 years ago, one of the delights of our house was the wood-burning fireplace. As I suspect you know, one of the chief joys of winter is the kindling of ...
Back just before Christmas, some of my grandchildren saw me splitting logs with an axe, and next thing you know, Santa brought me a small wood splitter—suggested to him, he said, by three of my ...