We sure are keeping busy here at Crossroads Recycled Lumber. The details of our new yard, Pacific Northwest Timbers, are developing, and Marc & family will be spending the month of January up in Port Townsend house-sitting and getting the new office in order. All very exciting!

Last week we had a quick and hard snow. Monday through Wednesday I couldn’t make it up the hill to work and got a few snowdays for a break. Thursday I was pleased to make some connections at the San Joaquin Valley Regional Green Jobs Summit held in Fresno and put on by the Latino Environmental Advocacy Program. The event was very well attended by people of diverse ages and backgrounds. I was very happy to see an event of this calibur in our own community. For more info read here: http://sjvleap.wordpress.com/

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Wire-Brushed 1X6 Ponderosa Pine Ship-Lap

The Summer of 2009 has treated us well here at Crossroads Recycled Lumber. With our planer-matcher up and running Crossroads can now mill our own tongue and groove, ship-lap, paneling patterns, as well as surface 8″X16″ timbers, all with the same machine. We’re very excited about this addition that greatly increases Crossroads’ capabilities!

In our inaugural Crossroads Newsletter this month, we’d like to share with you a bit about our Western Yellow Pine (also called “Knotty Pine”) out of Tracy, California. Western Yellow Pine is not to be confused with Southern Yellow Pine, which is a much harder, denser East Coast wood.

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Hello valued customers and friends! I’m writing today with exciting news! We are about to open Crossroads new sister company; Pacific Northwest Timbers in Port Townsend, Washington! The new yard will be on Seton Road in Port Townsend, right down the road from Edensaw Woods. More news to come on this later, the business paperwork has just been submitted.

Crossroads’ first-ever Newsletter is about to be launched!  I’ve been working on this baby for around a month now, trying to get all the details just right.  Looking at other examples of newsletters, Crossroads’ is going to be a little different.  Many newsletters I see are full of different articles on various topics.  But Crossroads’ is going to be simple, with the basic goal of reminding our subscribers about what we do and letting them know what’s in our VAST inventory, by featuring a different product or process each month or so.

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At last Marc Mandel is going to enter the discussion on saving the planet with a wider potential audience, the world wide web. He’s been running Crossroads Recycled Lumber for many years and has a unique and varied open minded outlook on this earth where we live and how we have to save it so we can continue to live here.

Kick around and read. At the very least you’ll learn something. Read more about Marc’s blog here…