> -----Original Message-----
> From: BP - "lapsit exillas"
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Ralph
> Walter
> Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 10:21 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Help! Murder! Police!
>
>
> My esteemed colleagues on the Board, who tend to be suburban soccer mom
> gardeners/Martha Stewart types and the retired Telephone Company Bean
> Counters  want the cheesy shades, even after I made the supremely foolish
> pitch for awnings on the grounds that they're historic and will reduce
> heating loads/cooling costs.

No substantive help here, but surely somewhere in the Martha Stewart line at
Kmart are lovely linen canvas awnings in today's oh so colors.

The fact you find yourself trying to convince them to install the historic
treatment on their historic restoration is most telling.  Sigh.
____________________________________________________
Dan Becker,  Exec. Dir.,          "Help me, Mr. Wizard!  I don't
Raleigh Historic                        want to be here anymore!"
Districts Commission                             - Tooter the Turtle
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