Burn'n stuff

Burn'n stuff
Originally uploaded by gaikokujinkyofusho.

Yeah, a less than droll topic but #1 having grown up with a father who had (has) a love affair with fireplaces and #2 having a family that grows saw timber I am often interested in lumber.

While it didn’t occur to me at the time I have since noticed that fire fuel here is hard to come by, people burn dried manure, bundles of grass, roots, and occasionally gas and regular wood so when I saw "regular firewood" for sale I thought I'd snap off a picture.

Here is some firewood for sale in one of the villages we passed through on our way back from the Panjshir province. Wood is usually bought by weight which is funny to me but I am sure there is a direct correlation between weight and burning time/intensity (think about burning pine logs vs. burning oak logs) and come to think of it, it could be the same in the US (I can't recall our family ever having bought firewood, my brother and I were taught [willingly at first] the ways of the chainsaw early on and harvested firewood from our property ever since).

While I can't tell here I swear some of the wood they sell are roots, they are so scraggly that they have to be (I haven’t seen trees that look that scraggly) which is kind of unsettling since that is tantamount to raping the (already poor) soil.