Everyone knows about shortages of toilet paper and paper towels. In South Florida, there are still long empty shelves in grocery stores where in the paper product aisle. But have heard about a shortage of firewood?
That might be a local issue. But here in Palm Beach County, firewood disappeared around the first of the year from all the places where it’s usually readily available. Ace Hardware always has firewood, same with Publix, Home Depot, Lowe’s. Nobody buys firewood in the summer here so the stock of wood never changes for months–summer is about eight months long here. But it all disappeared after our second or third “cool spell,” temps in upper 40s, 50s. Maybe it’s because we’ve had more cooler weather this winter. Hard to believe that covid would affect firewood supplies, but then again more people are staying home…and some are burning wood in fireplaces, stoves, and…like us…in outdoor fire pits.
We kept looking for weeks. We even looked when we were in Orlando visiting Megan. So think there. No wood, at least not in the Publix. So how did I get that wood in the pic above?
Synchronicity, of course. I accidentally clicked the Offer Up app and what did I see but a pic of a huge pile of firewood. In particular, it was cherry wood and was advertised for using in barbecues and it was expensive. I wrote the seller and found out that he also sold regular firewood. We agreed on a quantity and a price and the next morning I met him at an intersection in the nearby rural community of Loxahatchee. Not sure why we met there, but we did and we transferred the firewood from his pickup to my SUV.
End of story. Synchronicity leads me to firewood. Probably the fact that both Trish and I were focussed on finding firewood and talking about how it had disappeared that created the circumstances that “accidentally” led me to a source of firewood.
