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Being most certain of the quality of oak wood, and of my ability to judge it, I tried to limit my purchases to oak, but sometimes, under duress—either needing the wood or responding to a seller’s plea that I buy the last of his load so that he could get back to the county (Culpeper or Rappahannock) before nightfall or before the predicted snowstorm arrived, I did occasionally buy what was described as a “Mixed” cord. A “Mixed” cord contained, according to the seller, usually some oak, hickory, cherry, locust, possibly ash, maple, and apple. Sometimes my purchase did have the types of woods listed by the seller. Other times it contained woods that did not fit my recollection of their qualities.
On moving to Rappahannock County, I found that hickory, ash, cherry, apple, locust, and other types of tress that grow there are like the same trees in Minnesota, as are the popular and black birch. However, somewhere and somehow between the wood cutting and the delivery in Georgetown, something happens to some of these woods. Oak, as a rule, I found, which left the country as oak arrived in Georgetown as oak, although its age might have changed along the way. Wood from dead falls sometimes lost age, and green oak took on age, sometimes arriving “cured.”
These changes although notewor
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