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From: "Mary Tegel" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2009 4:43 PM
Subject: Re: [BP] Wet dry bullamanka party

Hey-- I am prodding for a Work party. Isn't there some deserving wreck
of a built thing at a lovely spot  where you all could meet halfway
and have a go at it? With your Tools. Play when it's too dark to work?
A bullamanka-hey-these-folks-know- what-they're-doing-O-Rama!

hands-on impresario
Tegel  Design +  Planning
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Hey, I've got just the thing right here in beautiful Victoria, the 
restoration of the fire damaged stair and semi-Gothic hall in Craigflower 
Farmhouse.    They even just got some grant money for the work!   Handsome 
honorariums all around.

John and Rudy can help me turn spindles and re-fit the mortise and tenon 
details of the banister made of Arbutus (Madrone) with dozens of heartwood 
blocks fitted side by side and core upward to make the unique railing.   Ken 
can write a murder mystery about it and create a ghost to help attract 
visitors to pay admission.   For the masons, the hall walls are a perfect 
task, well, sort of.   The original 1850's wallpaper was made to look like 
10" x 20" stone blocks, probably to give the folks recently arrived from 
Scotland a feeling that they were actually back in their substantial stone 
home there.   The paper was reproduced beautifully during the 1967 
restoration project, but half burnt away in February.   Any stone (not 
stoned) silk-screeners in the crowd?

Anyway, it would make a marvellous event to repair this little stair.   The 
property management seems awed by the task and afraid to not do it to the 
best quality work possible.   What a crew we might make, and having you guys 
there would resolve the local credibility issue (Definition of an Expert = 
Someone from more than 25 miles away carrying a box of slides.).

And to top it off, the historic 1856 Four Mile Pub is just down the road, 
followed by 1857 Six Mile Pub and then the 1860's 17 Mile Pub.   They all 
serve Amanka along with the daily specials.

As ee cummings said, "Let's make yes!"


cp in bc
(actually not kidding)

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