Origin of a Word - Water Oak

Yesterday Ed spent quite awhile outside splitting wood. These are the logs from the dead branches he cut out of the trees a couple months ago. Today he was splitting them for firewood with a wedge and a sledgehammer. It was pretty fun to take a big swing at them and get a big split! Last night we brought some logs in for the fire. What a nice evening...football and a fire...or not. Edward has since learned that the Water Oak got its name because early firefighters used Water Oak logs to put out fires! They actually hold water in their wood so its pretty fireproof. The logs did hiss, simmer, smoke and literally drip water in our fireplace...but it never actually caught on fire!