Lol I'm just kidding, of course there's no other wood carvers on this forum. But on the offchance that there is, any of you ever encounter this issue of sorts before?

I'm sitting in my room and I hear a noise. Like clicks. I figured it was mice. But it didn't stop at noise made and it sounded too obvious. It pissed me off, and I looked around and listened until I found it.

One of my carving blocks of wood clicks.

One could wager that it was either shifting, or there's a REALLY FUCKING LOUD bug inside of it. But turning it around, or upside down doesn't stop it from clicking. Bugs tend to orient themselves with gravity and trees don't have a habit of turning themselves upside down either.

So. Any guesses here old chums?

Is it those bugs that eat wood?  The one like lice?

Is it those bugs that eat wood?  The one like lice?

Na. If it was a bug, it'd be a burrower beetle. But bugs aren't fucking loud like that. I've split open logs before and literally had them explode with bugs from the inside. The kind that eat wood.

I didn't hear a peep from logs like that before I split them. If it was a bug, this thing would have to be a big mother fucker.

ITS THE FUCKING DEVIL

ITS THE FUCKING DEVIL

Fuck it. After I'm done carving up my first block I'm going to go to work on the block that makes noise. I want to see if anything's in there.

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It's alive, burn it.

Of course it's alive. It's fucking wood.

It WAS alive.

Asshole.

Actually, long past the cutting down of a tree wood cells retain water and stay alive for quite some time. But I wasn't the fellow who cut the tree down. The blocks were given to me.

Whoa, that's brutal.
I'm gonna go make vegans feel bad about using wood stoves now.

Wanna make them feel even worse? It's been discovered that certain plants have short memory spans.

Have you recently brought it in?

Could be that it's expanding now that it's warming up

Doubt it but I don't know

It's been sitting on my shelf for about a month. I mean I know my house is poorly insulated and today's the first day we've had under -20, but fuck.