This tree was only two houses away, and I had had my eye on it since it started dying a couple of falls ago. It was a nice white oak that had a 11-foot-long veneer-grade log in it and two lower-grade ...

Jan. 26—"Don't cut the logs too long — they're just little guys," Nancy Kalal advised me. She was giving instructions on how to prepare for the arrival of her "little guys," Bright and Star, 13-month ...