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I bet your house is amazing!

We love oak, too. There's a lot of it in the house. All the cabinets, bathrooms too, and floors. Even furniture. I have a beautiful hand made oak trestle table.

My dining area
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Dr. Tyler liked walnut and mahogany. Of course, she was prone to be a bit snobbish about things.
 
Lucky you! 🥰

On our honeymoon, we wandered into some kind of sales pitch for timeshares, I think. Each couple had their own high-pressure salesperson.

The guy we had kept acting like my husband's best friend and virtually ignoring me. He asked a lot of what I considered very personal questions. Think - how much do you make, how much did you pay for this vacation, what are your goals, etc.

I kept shutting him down by saying it was none of his business, we weren't going to talk about that, etc. He finally leaned into my husband and asked him if he could control me. I was pissed! My husband asked, in what way? The guy said, "Are you just gonna let her keep talking to me like that?"

Let me tell you, I was about to go nuclear on his ass!

My husband leaned back, folded his arms across his chest, and said, "I don't see why not. She's doing a really good job so far!"
😅🥰😅


Priceless!!! That kinda sales shit is such a shit job. They should stay in the drive-thrus askin' folks if'n they wantin' fries wit' dat.
 
A story about stick shifting, was the teaching of my daughter on my Honda Civic. Now this car was such an easy shift that you just had to learn to get it into first. So I took my daughter to a parking lot to practice the accelerator with release of the clutch to get into first without stalling.

She struggled and stalled the car often. Frustrated, she became angry and quit after a squirrel sat about 3 feet in front of the car taunting her!😂.
 
A story about stick shifting, was the teaching of my daughter on my Honda Civic. Now this car was such an easy shift that you just had to learn to get it into first. So I took my daughter to a parking lot to practice the accelerator with release of the clutch to get into first without stalling.

She struggled and stalled the car often. Frustrated, she became angry and quit after a squirrel sat about 3 feet in front of the car taunting her!😂.


She must have forgotten to remind the squirrel that his legs are too short to reach the pedals and that he can't see over the steering wheel.


Obnoxious rodents!!!! :mad:
 
Not to mention oak is solid. I have a preference for 1/4 sawn but not always the wallet.
We saw it here, so try to maximize quarter and rift sawn. But yes, in general it's expensive to buy.

I'm not sure I could even afford oak, of we didn't have the mill and access to the acres of hardwoods. To be honest, I never look at the retail price. We've even used it for trusses for buildings.

It can even make bird's-eye, like maple does. The effect is interesting, and it's super rare. We do have some set aside, from the only tree we've ever encountered.
 
All of us do i suspect one nephew does. Well i know he does. My dad let him drive his semi in a parking lot before he retired


Junior's mother - my second ex-wife - also drove a lot of sticks in her life. The car she gifted him when he arrived at driving age was her older one, so he had to learn it if he expected to drive it. Then he bought his SRT8 when he graduated college. That was a 6-speed. I think that he has had slushboxes since.
 
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