When I was a kid I remember my grandfather took a trip to Mexico with a flatbed trailer, from central Illinois, and bought an entire load of walnut boards of various dimensions but a lot of them. For a few years he kept most of them stored in our garage, took up an entire side of the garage. He said he bought all of it for $250. That was a lot of money back then but just imagine that same load of wood today, it would be IDK $100,000 or so?
He built lots of things out of those rough boards, including the grandfather clock in my living room. I actually remember "helping" him build that, it was his first - a prototype of many to come - and when he died he willed it to me.
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