How good is your laundry detergent?

There's not much nicer than the lovely heat from a wood-burning stove on a cold winter day, right? To this end, Russ has decided to take the oldest 2 kids this week and go wood cutting on Smith's Mesa. The wood that's available to cut are some trees that were burned in a fire a few years back. As the fire moved through quickly, the trees were really only burned on the outside, and they still make great firewood. Plus, they're free (which is one of our favorite words in the whole world.) The only real problem is how filthy handling this wood makes a worker. Check out these photos of Aubrey and Russ after a morning hauling wood. It makes me cringe just to look at them. I'm sure glad I don't have to do the laundry by hand.