Reply #8: I love working with wood.

[kristopher]

And I like to harvest my own trees. It isn't too hard to find some excellent wood from sources that would otherwise be wasted. Trees that have to be removed for disease, or that are damaging a sidewalk.
You can contact the people who cut them down and give them a little money for delivering it to a saw mill (yellow pages). Have them slice it and dry it, then take it home and stack it in a nice dry place.
Walnut, cherry oak. All kinds of very beautiful wood that would otherwise have been ground into rough mulch for easy disposal.

I love the smell.