In a message dated 4/22/2000 6:57:55 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
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<< Now ladies and genmen, I ain't no ARK-E-TECK and I ain't never built
 much of nothin' but I can sure tell you an 8 foot long porch ain't a
 porch, IT'S A STOOP, least that's what we call 'em up heah.

 There's a house in Chester, VT that my gramma always used to say had
 a Queen Anne front and a Mary Jane back, meaning that the fancy
 detail only was on the front part of the house and it was plain with
 no scroll work on the back.  Our house has fancier trim downstairs
 than up and the upstairs trim is painted while the downstairs is
 varnish or something.  The wood down here is oak and is suspect the
 upstairs is pine or similar.  Ruth
  >>


Ruth,

As usual, you are 100 per cent right.  That's the way they did things in the
Olden Days, before the Advent of Dryvit or the Heartbreak of Psoriasis.

Ralph