Hello Bob:
One of the fondest recent memories I have is the weekend my then finance took off to visit you and your shop. The image of your barn with the wood downstairs, the great workspace in the middle, and all the great things you made on the third floor is stuck in my memory. Sheer jealousy. I could use a few hours of sipping wine and sitting in the midst of some great lumber.

As I’m sure you expect, the tables and chairs far exceeded our expectations. The furniture gets a lot of use. Here’s why. since you dropped of the furniture Diane and I have done “the best work of our lives” and had two healthy, wonderful, young boys. They are now four and two.

Being at work all day I miss breakfast and lunch but I know Diane and the boys eat their meals at the table each day. And we sit at that table every night as a family and eat dinner. On top of it we have shared many special occasions with our families by putting both extensions on the big table and butting up the small table at one of the ends. Plenty of room. Just as we planned!

The furniture is holding up great. As you might expect with two young boys, the furniture is starting to record our family history. The first records being small indents on the edge, not visible to the eye, only to the touch of an anal person such as myself, where the boys’ wooden high chairs occasionally bumped it. Other than that our tables and chairs look as good as the day you dropped them off. So, we love our furniture! We still think about that bedroom furniture, but right now it’s all about the boys.

There are a lot of decisions to be made when building a new house. Having you build the table we eat dinner at as a family every night was one of the smartest decisions we made.