In a message dated 7/11/2007 8:42:07 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes: You fellas would have had a ball taking apart our old garage, too bad you were too far away. Happily we found a man to take it down and he is going to rebuild it in another place.Good! One jerk wanted to take it down and pile the lumber for US to burn and charge us $1500.00. This man took it down for the having of it. It was clearly built of used materials from several different eras and probably different sources. I'm quite sure that part of it was the original barn as it had whitewash on the back wall. The beams upstairs were put together with those wooden pegs instead of nails. The BIG find though, for me, was my gggrandfather's wooden chest full of his woodworking tools, along with all the other woodworking tools in the old chest of drawers that he probably built himself, AND his thick plank workbench. I still have those things. Congratulations, that's wwwonderful. Ruth PS: Anyone know what happened to my favorite woodworker, '"The Woodwright," who used to be on PBS on Sunday morning? Sounds good to me, but I never heard of him. Only one I know is Norm Abrams who seems able to hang around with whoever the host of the decade is. He knows which side HIS bread is buttered on. Ralph ************************************** Get a sneak peak of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour -- To terminate puerile preservation prattling among pals and the uncoffee-ed, or to change your settings, go to: <http://listserv.icors.org/archives/bullamanka-pinheads.html>