{"id":302,"date":"2013-06-15T11:03:46","date_gmt":"2013-06-15T11:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianpaonessa.com\/blog\/?p=302"},"modified":"2018-02-07T11:45:01","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T16:45:01","slug":"visit-to-hicksville-planing-mill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/brianpaonessa.com\/blog\/visit-to-hicksville-planing-mill\/","title":{"rendered":"Visit to Hicksville Planing Mill"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"hicksville<\/a>We first came across \u00a0Hicksville Planing Mill<\/strong> in March while looking for an alternative to overpriced scarps available at Woodcraft and this place looked like the most interesting option by a long shot. The first trip up there was so much fun that frankly, we forgot to snap a photo so we vowed to correct that mistake.<\/p>\n

I’m working on a little project for the Mutts and needed some Black Walnut; no better place then Hicksville to get it.<\/p>\n

OK, so back to the photos; I was not going to miss out on an opportunity to snap pictures of all the 4 story high stacks of lumber, no sir. I bought a camera phone, a camera, and a video camera.<\/p>\n

There was only one problem, I kind of got excited again and forgot to take pictures. Ya, I can’t believe it either. but it gets better, much better!<\/p>\n

See I was so excited that I forgot to take the car keys with me<\/strong>, yep left them in the ignition, I locked the car and went shopping. No lie, we were shopping for two hours before I realized that I didn’t have the keys.<\/p>\n

Feeling like a fool, having locked my keys, phone, etc in the car I headed back to the office to beg for help. The Mennonites being the most helpful people on the planet offered to let me use their “car kit” to break in. Unfortunately, car thief is not on my list of expertise and I hacked away at it making little progress until the owners’ son, probably the most polite twenty-something you’ve ever met came to help.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the Mennonites are not known for “grand theft auto” so he too made little progress.<\/p>\n

Finally, we got the idea to try and push the window buttons. Is it down to open? No maybe its up to open, hmm, let’s try down again, nope nothings working. Then Jess yells over hey you put the window down. See in our excitement we did not notice that we had actually got the passenger window down and were in the process of putting it back up when she yelled… whoops… I mean YAY we are in.<\/p>\n

I was so happy I grabbed my Mennonite partner in crime and gave him a big hug…<\/p>\n

Holy crap<\/strong> you should have seen his face, I’ve never seen someone so scared and freaked out at the same time. He turned shades of white and red and you could see his fight and flight response fighting over what to do next.<\/p>\n

It was a riot.<\/p>\n

Well now, having access to my wood hauling chariot and having just embarrassed the heck out of my guide it was time to pay and go…<\/p>\n

I left a big tip for him at the counter, hopefully, that will make up for the hug<\/em>, lol.<\/p>\n\n\t\t