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In a message dated 2/3/02 12:49:44 AM, dvilter@... writes:

<< It started off talking about the "Book Matches" of
grain you describe in this post >>

Thanks! I never knew the name for it.

At our old house, pre-kids, we had a roommate with jumping boxers (dogs,
y'know) and so he and Keith put up a verticle-slat fence on frames, really
high. Cinder-block wall 6' tall, so they raised this wall up so it started
about three feet up and went up about nine or ten feet.

It didn't keep the jumpingest dog in.

But the story is that it was made of some weird odd wood the lumber yard had
wanted to get rid of--the last of a custom job. They were odd-shaped boards,
like 1x6, and each was made of a sliced 2x6, and they came stacked carefully,
and the guys put them up carefully. So with no other benefit to the world,
each two were "book matched"! All the way around the back yard, sets of
two mirror-matching boards.

Cheap thrills, but fun to look at, and as we had little kids they all
"discovered" it.

Sandra