MitchelC
MGF, Master Grumble Framer
My luck was with me..
This past Sunday I made minor repairs of my cabin on Goose Creek. I then left to go back home. I was only a few miles from home when I recognized a very good customer removing the last planks off his fence with only a few fence posts remaining. I parked in his driveway and chatted with him. I asked him why he was taking down his fence. He said it will be replace with a "white" fence. I was interested in his old fence planks and asked him what he was going to do with 'em. He asked me if I wanted them. I said "sure, how much do you want for them?" He said " For you, TWO cases of beer... one case for all the fence planks and one case for the delivery! We walked to his back yard where all the planks were neatly stacked on a large trailer. He had almost a thousand 3/4" thick, 5 1/2" wide and 6 feet long old cypress fence boards in excellent condition. He told me he sold his business and retired a couple of months ago. His wife went visit her family relations in West Virginia. He said she always talked about having a "white picket fence". Tomorrow, a fence company will be putting up the white fence, which will take two days. His wife will come back home on the day of their 50th anniversary... two days after the fence is completed. She will be shocked. The cypress boards are now in my storage shed. lol ☺
This past Sunday I made minor repairs of my cabin on Goose Creek. I then left to go back home. I was only a few miles from home when I recognized a very good customer removing the last planks off his fence with only a few fence posts remaining. I parked in his driveway and chatted with him. I asked him why he was taking down his fence. He said it will be replace with a "white" fence. I was interested in his old fence planks and asked him what he was going to do with 'em. He asked me if I wanted them. I said "sure, how much do you want for them?" He said " For you, TWO cases of beer... one case for all the fence planks and one case for the delivery! We walked to his back yard where all the planks were neatly stacked on a large trailer. He had almost a thousand 3/4" thick, 5 1/2" wide and 6 feet long old cypress fence boards in excellent condition. He told me he sold his business and retired a couple of months ago. His wife went visit her family relations in West Virginia. He said she always talked about having a "white picket fence". Tomorrow, a fence company will be putting up the white fence, which will take two days. His wife will come back home on the day of their 50th anniversary... two days after the fence is completed. She will be shocked. The cypress boards are now in my storage shed. lol ☺