Monday, February 18, 2008

Fancy news for real


Recently, my favorite client of all time and old friend down South in Washington called on me to come there and do some remedial decorative work in her little mansion in that city - the thought of a house repair that required cutting into a very elaborately developed mural in her home had us all bothered, but not much. After all, it gives us a fine chance to get together and run around and see the museums and have mild adventures motoring about the Nation's Capital.
You have to admit, a lush, lyrical, moody or misty decorative finish, or a full-blown mural, that results from the happy interaction between the patronesse or patron and the artist is a joy to live with, especially when the alternative is "eggshell white" out of the can.
Isn't it time for you to graduate from that "dorm room" look and dress up your crib, pad, pied a terre, flat, mansion or petit palaise with artwork or decorative treatments by Edward Huse?
Treat yourself today, send a plane ticket and a big check, and see your ordinary drywall turn into a unique and special setting for you and your family and friends.
Line forms to the right.

Saturday, February 16, 2008

Fancy News - A Barn Raising!




"Barn Raising" - it sounds bucolic, old-timey, and fun. And it was - even if at the end it seemed more proper to call the event a canopy deployement rather than a barn raising since there was little timber framing, and none aloft, where the high arched components did however create a fine looking barrel vault that amazingly creates quite the "basilica/barn" effect. The aerodynamics of this kind of canopied service structure are so far more important a variable than it's weight, that it is more like a glider than a barn, so I hereby coin a new phrase analogous to "barn raising" and to be used in the same way: "barn mooring", which refers to the permanent assembly and fixed location of any inflated, canopy type, air-pressure-dependent, or otherwise aero-static barn or outbuilding, in deference to it's innate preference for flight.
Very interesting it was indeed to see it happen over the last few snowy weeks. This new cow barn has a lot of what is beautiful about a barn, even though it is so odd to see that kind of a big bubble structure in a pastoral setting - like a giant Bibelót lying in a field sleeping off a night of clubbing.
The work has all happened in cold weather. In particular, Chip told me that it was a bear just to sink the holes for the wooden beams that sit deep in the ground to anchor the structure. It has been a comparatively mild Winter, yet on any given day it has been as cold as it needs to be outside if you are working with your hands.
Above is a picture of the activity surrounding the creation of that new cow barn at Lisa's new W.A.W.W.E Farm Store the other day, that I took with the Sony digital DSLR A100k camera. I am still learning to use this image capture device, (but it is an easy study).
This barn will serve as a festive, convenient, and easy to maintain cow barn for Lisa's exquisite milk cows - for the famous Jersey Girls of Chester, Vermont, as a matter of fact.
The milk from these cows is like something you thought you had to take a time machine to find anymore.