One of the best things about living here is the 3 plus months of skiing we can enjoy locally. The NY Times published a very favorable article in the Feb 18, 2007 Travel section about our Nordic trail system. About half of the staff ski weekends, before work, after work. Some are MVSTA Ski Patrol [...]
Entries from February 2007
Bear Creek Lumber has a ski team. sort of.
February 22nd, 2007 · No Comments
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Lost River Construction
February 19th, 2007 · No Comments
On Friday 2/16, Hector (our webmaster) and I (salesman Merle) went and visited some jobsites of Lost River Construction. We took many photos of jobs under construction and some that where completed and being lived in. Stay tuned for a future web feature of Lost River Construction. Here is a photo of [...]
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March specials preview…
February 19th, 2007 · No Comments
To our faithful blog readers we bring a preview of the March specials, courtesy of your Webmaster. Remember that these specials will be honored from March 1st to March 31st.
SPECIALS MARCH 07
BOAT BUILDERS
MAHOGANY 4/4XR/W FAS ROUGHC KD $4.00 / BF
MAHOGANY 8/4XR/W FAS ROUGHC KD $4.00 / BF
PORT ORFORD 4X6 & 4X8 CLEAR ROUGH CUT PAD [...]
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“Yeah, but would you eat it for a dollar?”
February 16th, 2007 · No Comments
Ever since we began importing exotic species of lumber and reclaimed lumber to our Winthrop, Washington plant we have picked up interesting and never before seen critters, objects, substances, nests and high-viscus matter which to this day has us stumped as to origin, toxicity and flammability. Well, maybe not flammability, they yard guys will burn [...]
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End of year Inventory findings
February 8th, 2007 · No Comments
After consecutive days of tallying loads and loads of lumber I found we have quite a selection of lumber species. Mahogany, Teak, Ipe, Jatoba, all the White woods you can imagine and cedar and recalimed redwood and douglas fir. I saw vertical grain pieces so dense it was tough to get a GR/I (growth rings [...]
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My new work computer is super-poopy
February 5th, 2007 · No Comments
I am starting to work on a new Mac Pro G-5 with 2 x 3 GHZ Dual-Core Intel Xeon processors,
4GB 667 MHz – DDR@ FB DIMM chip set , and a pair of 700 GB hard drives. Did I forget to mention the 2 – 30 inch Cinema HD – LCD displays. Yes, two of [...]
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