Boxes for 2017

For the last 5+ years I have been in Young Women's, I have made boxes for the Laurel's who are graduating.  We invite YW leaders and parents to write letters to go in the boxes.

Several months ago, a tree fell down in our neighborhood  They have 3 young women in their home and the oldest is a junior.

We went and got two logs from the tree with the hopes of using those for that family's boxes.

I tried with three different saw mills in the Salt Lake area to see if they would mill the wood for me.  Each one of them stood me up and I guess they did not want to do my "small" job.

Found a man in Nephi who was willing to cut my logs for me.

Saturday morning while Scott was at the State Convention, I went to Nephi and got the three logs milled to 4/4 boards.  The tree is a Siberian Elm.  Beautiful color and grain.  How I have to store the wood, sticker it and put some clamps on it and let it dry for a year.

It will be fun making a box with the wood from the tree in her own yard.  Woo hoo!!!!