Sorry for the late response but I am loving all the character in the wood of your calls...I like ideal of reusing old wood along with history of where it came from and what it was used for...to me it makes it more personalble...
It was to say the least a very memorable hunt for me. I live west of Houston. We see our share of weird things. It is a whole different ball game to be in an Amish community, something I have never done. All the yards are perfect, shrubs were perfect, paint on the house conservative and perfect. There was no junk laying around. The people were extremely outgoing and pleasant. The weird part is to see a cab over New Holland tractor hauling butt down the gravel road, with a bass boat on the back. I swear he was doing 50 miles per hour, kicking up a dust cloud. My host laughed at my dumbfounded look and explained. The Amish can use electricity if they create it themselves in form of direct current. So there milking barns are run by electricity created by the PTO driven generator. Apparently this guy was headed to the lake 20 miles away and was ready to get there fast. When we went to the restaurant in town, the parking lot looked like a used tractor shop. We had one of the very few trucks in the parking lot. I want to go back.
