Daniel Reddy of Reddy’s Hardwood Flooring in Addison, Ill., is not only a business owner and master wood floor craftsman, he's an avid fisherman. So when he needed an escape from the day-in, day-out grind of running a wood floor business this summer, he headed north to a remote spot in a isolated fish camp reachable only by boat in Ontario, Canada. One day, he went ashore on a half-acre island deep in the remote lake—a 45-minute boat ride from his already-remote camp—to make shore lunch. When he climbed off the boat in the wilderness, this is what he saw:
... inexplicably, a sole piece of red oak flooring.
"I couldn't believe it," he says. "I can only imagine it was for firewood."
For an even better sense of the remote location, Reddy sent us a pin of where it was:
Finding the reminder of work didn't disturb his fishing mojo, however, as can be seen in this pic from that trip (and for those wondering, that one is 47.75 inches long):
