John,  I sure hope you kept ALL of Dad's notes and drawings.  What a book
they will make someday, if only to share with family.

What prompted the note concerning bicycle riding, were you a bit reckless
in your youth?
 LOL,  Ruth




At 9:49 AM -0400 7/12/07, John Leeke wrote:
>Leland writes:
> >>I wish I had been documenting all the wonderful notes and drawings
>I have seen while pulling apart old buildings.  What a great book it
>would be.<<
>
>One of the best work techniques I learned from my dad was how to use a
>clipboard. After he passed away in '89 I was clearing out three file
>cabinets filled with his lifetime of work and documentation--notes,
>drawings and project papers on everything he had made, and a lot of what
>he thought or dreampt, since 1915. One item was a single sheet of
>yellowed paper dated May 16, 1959, half in his handwriting, half in
>mine. It recorded a project I had forgotten about, but now think of as
>my first formal piece of work, done, according to the date, when I was
>nine. It was the replacement of a broken picket on the neighbor's fence.
>My dad has outlined the project with these headings: "Date, Customer,
>Work, Materials, Labor, Drawing, Costs." Most of the notes are in my
>handwriting: "ponderosa pine select out knots, oil prime two coats paint
>[with paint color dabbed on the paper, one in my dad's thumb-print one
>in mine], nails from Vint, 1 1/4 hr at bench, 1/2 hr paint, 1 hr at
>fence, 1/2 hr more paint, a full scale sketch of the gothic arch at the
>top of the picket..."
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Ruth Barton
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