Pressure treated two by fours are nearly non-existant down here. It is like trying to find toilet paper was last June.
I am glad I do not need any!
-Kevin
Living the dream.
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All the best to all.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
My comment about lumber prices was meant to be about lumber that is harvested, milled, and sold in the U.S. I know there are other reasons for the price increases when talking about lumber crossing the border with other countries. Sorry.
York1 John
Good morning, everyone. Our Indian Summer is continuing to at least next week, when it looks like temperatures will drop a little.
This weather is great for physical activity. The trail continues to be a great place to put on walking-running miles each day, without bundling up with coats and gloves.
After our family vacations, it's always an adjustment back to our normal. It was nice living with all the hubbub of kids, grandkids, and dogs, all existing in the same house. Lots of fun -- but also tiring. Plans are in the works for some major trips for us and our daughters' families; it's a good thing deposits are refundable.
Hope everyone has a good day.
SeeYou190 I brought back a good sized load from Home Depot today, and went into sticker shock! I went back and checked old receipts just to be sure. 30" Prehung door... today $148.00, 12/SEP/2020: $129.00 8 foot 2 by 4 stud... today $6.29, 18/SEP/2020: $4.09 3" Seam Tape... today: $8.79, 01/OCT/2020: $6.59 3/8" Trash Plywood... today: $26.89, 03/SEP/2020: $16.49 1 pound 10d Nails... today: $6.87, 09/SEP/2020: $5.27 What is going on with prices? Is this happening elsewhere? TOP OF THE PAGE! I am drinking unsweetened iced tea this evening. I know that is not to everyone's taste, but please feel free to join me. -Kevin
I brought back a good sized load from Home Depot today, and went into sticker shock!
I went back and checked old receipts just to be sure.
30" Prehung door... today $148.00, 12/SEP/2020: $129.00
8 foot 2 by 4 stud... today $6.29, 18/SEP/2020: $4.09
3" Seam Tape... today: $8.79, 01/OCT/2020: $6.59
3/8" Trash Plywood... today: $26.89, 03/SEP/2020: $16.49
1 pound 10d Nails... today: $6.87, 09/SEP/2020: $5.27
What is going on with prices? Is this happening elsewhere?
I am drinking unsweetened iced tea this evening. I know that is not to everyone's taste, but please feel free to join me.
Hurricane prep related? Low supply there because supply is high elsewhere.
Haven't chaecked the prices that closely here in GA.
As others have said, it's probably a temporary imbalance related to some macro thing that will adjust.
- Douglas
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.
GARRY
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SeeYou190 I am drinking unsweetened iced tea this evening. I know that is not to everyone's taste, but please feel free to join me. -Kevin
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
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Heartland Division CB&QJohn 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 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.
ROBERT PETRICKJanie, 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.
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.
I used to drink the stuff by the gallon.
ROBERT PETRICKI 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.)
SeeYou190Now... Sweet Tea... Yuck. I used to drink the stuff by the gallon.
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.
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.
SeeYou190 ROBERT PETRICK 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.) 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
ROBERT PETRICK 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.)
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.
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.
Mike
Good morning
Two posts in a row by Robert Petrick?
Unheard of, ....Your a Post Hog Robert! Welcome to the club
TF
Good afternoon
Unheard of!, ....Your a Post Hog Robert! Welcome to the club
PH
Track fiddler Good morning Two posts in a row by Robert Petrick? Unheard of, ....Your a Post Hog Robert! Welcome to the club TF
Ooh . . . do we get a big hat and learn the secret handshake?
ROBERT PETRICKI'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.
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.
ROBERT PETRICK Ooh . . . do we get a big hat and learn the secret handshake? Robert
Of course you always get a big warm handshake Robert 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
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
You should see the look on some of my current friends faces when I say it's a little Vinder today
Track fiddlerStill get a 4x8 sheet of half inch OSB for 8 bucks up here
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.
Eveing Diners
Flo, give the gang and I a 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.
I hate Rust
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
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.
Yuk
I must admit I'm not much of a snake fan anymore.
My Grandmother who raised me would throw up from the sight of a snake.
We used to catch them by the bucket loads down by the railroad tracks not far from where I lived.
That was then this is now. Although once fond of the slithery creatures, I don't care for them too much anymore.
I have become more of a fan of very heavy rectangular steel boxes riding on steel wheels more to my liking lately
Track fiddlerYuk I must admit I'm not much of a snake fan anymore.
It is not like Florida did not have enough monsters already. Panthers, Bears, Alligators, Rattlesnakes, etc.
These pythons are just too much. As are the iguanas.
Your state does have quite a lot of Monsters down there Kevin. Not to mention the Spiders and big bugs. We would probably have a lot of monsters up here in Minnesota too but by late fall-early winter they all freese! and die
Actually I know some of those raspy iguana lizards are quite affectionate pets.
I know this because I knew this girl that owned two and they were quite affectionate.
Each of her lizards knew their name and would come to her when she called them.
It was kinda cool.
She was kind of weird though and would feed them fruit out of her mouth
She was a fruitcake but I kinda liked her
Get this! Her name was Wanda
Pretty neat goings-on up there in Mackinac:
Speaking of supply and demand, I went to the John Deere dealer today, cash in hand, to buy an X590 with a 54" mower, a 57" snow blower, cab, weights and tire chains. First thing I noticed when I pulled in was that there were NO green tractors anywhere to be seen around the dealer.
Talked to the salesman and he says, good luck. We haven't had a new tractor in here since April. "Covid, you know?"
Huh?
Today I'm contacting another dealer next county over. Can it be that there are NO John Deere garden tractors to be had?
Well, it was a nice drive and the fall colors are just about to kick in.
Snakes: I can live with the garden-variety snakes we have on the property. One thing I can't figure are the folks that keep rather large reptiles in their homes.
Our neighbors have a pair of, in MY estimation, HUGE yellow constrictors (Paraguayan anacondas). OK so they like snakes, fine, but they just had a newborn baby girl. In my mind, big snakes and tiny babies just don't mix, I don't care HOW careful you are there's a chance that snake would swallow the baby like a chicken! No way, Jose!
I hope everyone is doing OK —
Cheers, Ed
Good morning everyone. Brunhilda, a large coffee and an order of cinnamon raisin toast please.
Mackinac Island is a really neat place. Main street on Mackinac Island is a state highway. The only one in the US where motorized vehicles are not allowed. If you ever have the opportunity to go, make sure to make a stop nearby at one of the best burger joints I've ever been to. Clyde's drive-in in St. Ignace. Incredible food. People happily wait in line for this place.
Their "Big C" burger is triple patty slice of heaven.
Have a good one guys!