100 euros worth of GREEN wood

so, i've heard we're living inna "lowcost-country" (actually, i hear it over and over and over again, but i really don't believe it...)

well, here's what 105euros bought us (delivered) today:

not much, izzit? it's SPOSED to be a cubic meter. but it doesn't look like it. but that's all the wood man could scrape together. when i put it thru my handy dandy conversion dealiebop, it tells me that a cubic meter is .27 cords. which makes more sense to me.

so, if my calculations are correct, i'm paying 388.88euros per CORD of GREENWOOD. and at today's exchange rate, that runs me approximately

583 US DOLLARS per CORD of GREENWOOD.

seems like such a small price to pay for such a LOWCOST COUNTRY, don't it???!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

but all is not lost - see that little pile on the right front row? nope. not that one - the one further to the right. yah. THAT one...

THAT's the dry seasoned wood we received. APPARENTLY, if we wanted to purchase seasoned wood, we would have had to place our order IN THE SPRING. cuz there is no dry wood left in the greater bratislava (lower carpathian) area. of course, we certainly would have thought about that had we KNOWN WE WERE MOVING HERE more than two months in advance.

anywazye, we stacked it all (the whooooooole lot of it) in front of the teeny tiny radiator n the garage (where the OTHER car that we can't afford to buy in this LOWCOST COUNTRY would normally be parked). and we hope that, w/ its help, inna month or so the greenwood would be (oh, that's funny) dried to a point that we can burn it w/out causing a complete smokehaus effect.

in which case, i'm just gonna buy me a side o' beef and and mebbe make some sausages and hang it all by the fireplace so i get SOME value out of it.