Good morning …
John York 1 … I just read the article you linked and I read your post. I’m wondering about that. If lumber mills are closed, that affects supply not demand.
I do need some 2x4’s for a little project. So, I guess I’m stuck paying a high price.
Regarding model trains, I’m nearly done making two more stock cars. Also, have new decoders installed in my Intermountain GN F7’s.
Everybody: … Have a good day.
[:|] Are you kidding me!?
I don’t know if sweet tea is the Number 1 thing I miss most about the South, but it is certainly in the Top 5. (I think fried chicken might be No 1.)
Janie, please bring me a tall glass of sweet ice tea, and please don’t tell me that there’s sugar on the table. And maybe you should bring my friend Kevin one as well. I think he might need an intervention of some sort.
Robert
I think what they’re saying is that the mills and construction both slowed. But, the low interest rates caused construction demand to ramp up more than expected, and the mills were not able to up production supply that quickly.
Before I get into trouble with this, I’m talking about U.S. lumber, which includes Southern Yellow Pine for a lot of our pressure-treated uses.
There are other reasons why imported lumber prices have risen.
Several years ago I went through a taste-transformation of unknown cause.
I started to dislike sweets, and bitter foods became desireable.
I stopped drinking sweet tea and sodas. I switched to black coffee. Beer became delicious. I also began eating brussel sprouts and grapefruit.
I stopped eating ice cream, cookies, and candy.
This was not an intentional change, just how things went.
Now… Sweet Tea… Yuck. [+o(]
I used to drink the stuff by the gallon.
-Kevin
My wife, coming from New Orleans, is a sweet-tea-alholic. When we moved north, she could not find true sweet tea, and she usually mixed about 400 sugar packets into a glass of tea.
Even though I lived in the south, I never drank tea or coffee with sugar. But then, I also drank coffee with chicory without the sugar or milk. Today, I can’t stomach the stuff.
One of my favorite things to do when I am traveling Up North, is to eat in a “Southern Style Cooking” restaurant to see what they have.
It is usually OK, but nothing really matches what you can find in Alabama, Georgia, or the Carolinas.
We have lost most of our “real” down-home southern restaurants in this part of Florida.
There was a place in LaBelle, Florida called Flora & Ella’s that had been there 60+ years. It has been gone for more than a decade now. That was some good eating!
We still have Michelbob’s in Naples, but that is all I know of within reasonable driving distance.
-Kevin
I’ve been drinking black coffee since I was about 14. I distinctly remember the first time I did was to impress Christine (the cute blonde with freckles on her nose who lived down the street). Really.
I don’t know if this will get moderated, but one of my nephews calls Brussels sprouts ‘monkey balls’.
I prefer grapefruit juice to orange.
Beer? Meh . . . I can take it or leave it.
Robert
There is only one place in Wyoming to get chicken that is minimally passable: Dash Inn in Buffalo. There is a pretty significant mountain range between here and there, and the pass is closed in winter, but it is worth driving the long way around.
Robert
Whenever I travel down south I swear sweet tea is the only thing I drink. I love it. One of my grandmas was from Oklahoma and was how I was introduced to sweet tea. God that sounds good right now.
Good morning
Two posts in a row by Robert Petrick?
Unheard of, …Your a Post Hog Robert! Welcome to the club[Y][;)]
TF
Good afternoon
Two posts in a row by Robert Petrick?
Unheard of!, …Your a Post Hog Robert! Welcome to the club[Y][;)]
PH
Ooh . . . do we get a big hat and learn the secret handshake? [C):-)]
Robert
When I was fourteen there was a really cute girl on the next street over named Pamela.
I overheard her on the school bus one day telling her friend that she was impressed by this guy named Leo who could walk on his hands.
I spent weeks trying to learn how to walk on my hands too. Never did. Never talked to her.
-Kevin
Of course you always get a big warm handshake Robert[Y] but nothing too secret about it.
And you do get the big hat if you live down south to keep the sun off you. But if you live up here in the Northland you get a Big webbed steel bag of hybrid slow-burning hot coals to keep you warm up here real soon eh?
P.S. I could only sense that cute blond with the freckles on her nose was really something back in your day[:)]
Memories[Y]
[;)]TF
Prices gone up in contruction materials = Hurricanes.
Still get a 4x8 sheet of half inch OSB for 8 bucks up here
But my Finlander friends say it’s not a bit Vinder up here and I guess I would have to say the same
I remember some of my up by the border Finlander friends would say “It’s a little Vinder today eh”! When it was Windy that day[(-D][(-D][(-D]
You should see the look on some of my current friends faces when I say it’s a little Vinder today[(-D][(-D][(-D]
TF
OSB has always been expensive down here. I am puzzled why when I go to Home Depot in Georgia OSB is always a few bucks cheaper, and half the price at Menard’s in Indiana.
Maybe the cost of shipping it down here effects the price.
Maybe.
-Kevin
Eveing Diners
Flo, give the gang and I a [B] please and Dirk and Robbie a dog treat.
Down in the dump today
1. Had to hire a new Heat and Air company to get our furances going. I have used them at work and they are honest but not cheap like our old guy.
2. Dirk is limping again! I see a nother never ending Vet visit bill coming my way.
3. Need around $250.00 in car repairs.
I am guessing in the next week I will have spent $600.00 or more on furances (if I am lucky) Dirk and car repair.
Later, Ken and Dirk says my paw hurts Daddy.
Kevin
Supply and demand
Where they can’t keep up with shipping, the price goes higher trying to keep up with shipping it there because of multiple shipments
If someone could count it would probably help
And I can’t believe those lumberyards down there don’t keep a stockpile of the stuff on hand because of hurricanes And they know the next one is just around the corner. OSB doesn’t go bad kept in a dry environment
[;)]TF
The Miami Herald reported today that the longest python ever captured in Florida was brought in yesterday, 19 feet 11 inches!
If I ever saw one of these I might just keel over dead.
-Kevin