How do I dry small chunks of wood for my meat smoker?

[Dana]

I thought it was the fresh or wilted leaves that were the problem?
I've used the wood as well, guess I should be dead.
Maybe I am and just don't know it, hmmm.......

Well, your Furby avitar has been under water for a while.

[bitternut]

Apples have cyanide too but its in the seeds. So do peaches, its in the seed inside the pit.

[SwampDonkey]

We eat a roasted seed of one type of peach, the Almond. Anyone ever crack a roasted almond pit this time of year?

[Furby]

I've eaten a fair amount of apple seeds/cores in my younger days.......... guess I AM dead after all.

[bitternut]

I always used eat the whole apple but the stem. Don't know if it caused any harm or not. We will never know.

As for almonds I happen to have an almond tree in my yard. It actually looks like a peach tree, has blossoms like a peach tree and bears fruit that look like small green peaches. They do not fill out like regular peaches and do not get any color. The pit looks exactly like a peach pit and inside is the almond which looks exactly the seeds inside peach pits. They are a favorite for the red squirrels though and I have to keep the population in check in order to get any for myself.

[SwampDonkey]

Peaches and Almond are of the genus Prunus as well.