Build a garage!

[Frank S]

My great Grandfather on my dads side was I believe 3/4 Comanche and as I understand it quite an accomplished wood worker.
How all that came about I have no idea, not about him being 3/4 Comanche that part is easy his Father was half German half Comanche his mother was full blood Comanche. Not germane here but there was Cherokee blood on my mother's side as well, but anyway the house my grandmother lived in had a unique jigsaw puzzle style parquet or rather patchwork, end grain wood floor made entirely from local tree harvest such as scrub ceder mesquite live oak Pecan black walnut and post oak. I remember when I was very small I used to play for hours on end trying to follow the pathway lines made into the floor My Grandmother used to tell stories of when she was a small child she and her father would scour the woods and hills for any freshly dead not yet fallen trees to cut down and drag home. She said that her father and uncle would spend days or weeks sawing up the logs into pieces about 4 Inches long or as she said it about as long as both her young hands were wide.
Now remember I was very young when I here her stories just as she was very young when she witnessed the pieces of the floor being made You also need to know that these stories and many others started taking place over 55 years ago and continued until I turned 15 when she passed away at the age of 94. The last time I was at that house was sometime in 1977 or possibly 78 when my dad' oldest half sister passed away the floor although over 100 years old still seemed solid. To this day I don't know what substance was used under the floor I can only speculate that since the entire structure of the house was flag stone sand stone and granite chips save for the beams supporting the roof were wood, that the foundation and underlay of the floor might have been rammed Earth and stone
Although not a picture from my Grandmother's house her floor looked similar to this but with a much wider variety of colors