Fire is the great equalizer.

Cork screw willow would be a really terrible choice wood to use if you were smoking a pig or cooking a  burger.  It's really not even a great wood for burning.  I thought that I might like to have someone carve a walking stick for me from the tree, but the wood isn't good for that kind of use either. What they are good for is growing fast, real fast, the providing shade over a large area.  They are also real good at crushing bones.

So, I had friends over for the ceremony burning the tree that almost killed me.  This was a gathering of some of my most frequent visitors of the 540 in the ATL, and probably the final gathering of people I will have.  I'm in Austin Tx right now looking for my new house, the line up seems promising.  I'm hoping that this time around I might get a little peace and quite in my new home.  I'd also love a great large workshop, in fact I'd like it to be a workshop with a house in the back yard.