Um-Hum, and about the same up here. Made one foray into the local Home Depot for some 2x4's when I fabricated the lift flats for the van transmission job and all I found was fast growth junk. The only thing that grew faster than the wood was it's cost per. One of my to do's is a new work bench for the basement and for that I will be using 2x 4's that I already have in stock. Just hope I have enough to do the job properly. The most ironic aspect of all this is that I have a rail line close by and on a regular basis i get to see flat deck after flat deck loaded with lifts of studs headed elsewhere; mostly to the states to Lowes and Menards and Home Depot because, as mentioned, domestic wood supplies have taken repeated hits from fires (Now I wonder if there is a connection between supply absence and an increase in the consumption of s'mores here?) so American vendors have turned to us for wood, only to have the mills complain that our wood is priced cheaper and we violate the trade laws. Can't begin to count how many times this all went to court. Trade tribunals keep throwing the suits out and the suits keep refiling them. Must be a lot of lawyers needing new roofs on their summer mansions in the Catskills or wherever.
Nick