Welcome to the Saddle club thread!
Do you ride? Have horses?
Did they have your saddle finished when you went to town?
Sorry that it took so long to reply. Don't get on here too often. There's probably been about a thousand posts since you asked the question.
I used to have horses but we moved into town and had to give up. We had a nice place. When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a place on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what I was hoping to give my lad, the strongest place in all of Louisiana.