more bamboo

Today I learned that the poplar-backed bamboo up in Phoenix is not snap-together. It's tongue-and-groove, which you need wood glue for. The people at the store really thought they had snap-together, but we went up to actually look at it, and our eyeballs reported differently. I suppose it must be fairly disconcerting to have your customers drive all the way up from Tucson and in less than two minutes reclassify part of your flooring display.

When we got back to town, we gave the three-month-old, pine-backed, snap-together bamboo a sniff at the natural building supplies place and concluded that it very likely would make the whole house smell like pine. To avoid the pine smell, it looks like we'll be using the tongue-and-groove bamboo, so now I need to start sniffing glue. I'll get right on that.