On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 01:36:08 GMT, Kevin Craig wrote:

Yep, 20 ends -- several hundred dollars' worth of fine lumber had been
cut into neat 18" firewood lengths. As we sat in my mother's living
room for a visit, I heard the clank of a maul repeatedly hitting a
splitting wedge. I cringed at each blow, and I think I have developed a
tic in my eye.

So share the misery - saunter over to the neighbor, sigh, and say
"Shame that you're getting 100 dollars worth of heat out of a tree
that would have got you 500 bucks for lumber wood..." and walk away.

No reason for you to be the only miserable one.