So yesterday, on the way to my parent's to visit, I see a "barn sale" sign. This house is about a 1/2 mile up the road from me, on my street. The house sits way back and you can't see it from the road, and they had the house up for sale a few years ago for 1.5million, so I figured the barn sale would be a good excuse to check out what was back there. :)
So after driving about a MILE (no kidding) down the driveway, I come to this house (very nice) with a few barns. I get out and take a look in the barn, the stuff for sale was all knickknacks and other junk, nothing of interest. But then I notice on the other side of the barn is WOOD, lots of it, rough cut lumber with a large wood working shop in the back. So I went in to take a look, none of the tools were for sale, but the amount of wood was amazing. Oak, Maple, Ash and some I am not sure what it was. So I go back outside and ask the lady running the barn sale if any of the wood was for sale, and she informed that it was for sale, that her husband had a saw mill there (pointing my attention to the other side of the property where there was another barn surrounded by huge downed trees), and that he sold the wood all of the time as a side job, and all of the wood in that barn had been air dried for over a year and was ready to go.
I live out in the country, and the nearest place I can get hardwood is Paxton lumber, 25 miles away. So this was a great find for me, and the prices are cheaper than the lumber store as well. :)