Knocking together a couple of utilitarian things for the shop, so I grabbed a couple of pine boards from the blue borg when picking up some other stuff we needed for the house. It was Sunday, so my normal lumberyard was closed, and I didn't feel like ripping or resawing, so it was nice to have something pretty much the size I needed. (Some 1/2" thick stuff)
It wasn't until I was crosscutting things to length that I noticed the sticker on the end of the board:
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Nothing against New Zealand, but I just kind of found it ridiculous that softwood lumber made it's way over 9000 miles (Wolfram Alpha gives me a 9125 as the crow flies) to an area were it certainly isn't difficult to obtain something similar. I'm sure there's plenty of economy of scale things going on, it just made me chuckle and face-palm.