[Some customers, such as Bill and Jan Wright of Woodstock, use a wood stove to defray their winter heating oil bill.] I wish it were lower, ... We're retired.

The reality is we're all looking at the price per gallon of gasoline and heating oil, and even cord wood, and we're seeing prices that are volatile, and I don't think anybody can accurately predict what we'll be paying for these commodities in two weeks, let alone two months.

Wood is dirty and nasty. I didn't want to mess with it in the house.

We are so lucky that the damage was so confined. With the wood shop and its sawdust, which is so incendiary, and the fire under the bleachers it could have been far worse.

Some people have a specific plan when they start out. I like to put a piece of wood on the lathe and have an idea of what I think I want, but design something as I go along.

Not too many people have tried marbling on wood. You turn the cover, and there is marble paper.