Chris Finley of Finley’s Wood Floors in Jonesboro, Ark., recalls one wood flooring job that had an unusual visitor. His company had done a lot of work for a contractor who does restorations of old historic structures, such as courthouses, and on this job they were hired to put antique heart pine into an old schoolhouse in Earle, Ark. The job site had minimal modern conveniences, and there were still holes in the subfloor around the perimeter of the structure. Finley and his crew sanded the floor and put the first coat on, and when they came back the next day, there were little squiggly marks all over the floor. “Well, the blame game started until we noticed a strange sight on the far side of the room that was noticeably stuck and struggling,” Finley recalls. “It was a king snake that was trying to get warm from the cool nights and found that opening; he must have struggled all night. I went and picked him up. We tried to clean him off and turned him loose.”
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Chris Finley of Finley’s Wood Floors in Jonesboro, Ark., recalls one wood flooring job that had an unusual visitor. His company had done a lot of work for a contractor who does restorations of old historic structures, such as courthouses, and on this job they were hired to put antique heart pine into an old schoolhouse in Earle, Ark. The job site had minimal modern conveniences, and there were still holes in the subfloor around the perimeter of the structure. Finley and his crew sanded the floor and put the first coat on, and when they came back the next day, there were little squiggly marks all over the floor. “Well, the blame game started until we noticed a strange sight on the far side of the room that was noticeably stuck and struggling,” Finley recalls. “It was a king snake that was trying to get warm from the cool nights and found that opening; he must have struggled all night. I went and picked him up. We tried to clean him off and turned him loose.”
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