What's Wrong With This Picture?

Nothing!  This is the way things should be during Forest Products Week.  We recently bought paint at a Sherwin-Williams store in Mt. Vernon, Illinois, and there was an entire box of WOODEN paint stirrers at the counter.  The fellows waiting on us said to take as many as we want.  Stop and think about the U.S. Forest Service, which runs the Smokey Bear campaign.  One of their educational mainstays through the years has been the Smokey Bear Ruler, which hundreds of thousands of kids have taken home to use.  They were made of wood until recent years, when a switch was made to plastic.  I don't know the reasoning that went into that switch, but it doesn't quite compute with me.  Does Georgia Pacific sell steel 2 x 4's? Or does the maker of Chinet hand out Tupperware?  We have been proudly stirring paint the last three weekends with genuine American grown wooden paint sticks! And you should, too. 

Now, let's go make some sawdust.