EPISODE 290 IMAGINATION REQUIRED…MY NEXT WOODEN QUILTS…DO NOT KNOW WHEN

alan skeoch

March 2021

INTERESTED ?  MAYBE ?

There seems to be interest in the Wooden Quilts so here are a couple of our idea pictures.  Projects not even started.

For those bored

by the subject you know what to do.  Delete or Do not open.  Easy.

This old house, Northwest of Ospringe, Ontario, is a project I look forward to working on.  The house will be difficult due to the

artistic brick work which I may ignore.  Look closely at the house.  Perhaps you can explain why there is a doorway to nowhere

on the second floor.

Ray  Clough owned a nearby farm.   I hired him to re-roof our farm house.  He did such a good job

that he asked if he could live there.  He was not joking.  Now he is gone and we have lost another rural

eccentric.   How did he manage to hammer sheets of green aluminum roofing in place while winter winds

were blowing I will never understand.  He must have had help but the only person I ever saw on the job

was RAY.  I devoted an earlier Episode to him.  My Cousin Helen and her

husband Bill live nearby.  Knew Ray.  As dod my friend Rooter (Robert Root) .  Maybe they 

even know why there is  door on he second floor of the old farm house above … a door that leads nowhere. 

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Below the farm house is my truck loaded with Black Cherry logs en route to John and Eleanor Calder’s saw mill.  Eventually some of the milled

lumber became our dining room table.

BEFORE AND AFTER

HERE Marjorie is holding two images.   AFTER AND BEFORE.   As close a replication I could assemble using 1” (One Inch) as my

base number.  One inch…the clue.

Yellow moon was once part of a rope bed, Roof and  verandah cover were once a piece of horizontal barn siding.  Barn was lath from a

wrecked 19th century home.  Smoke was a piece of aromatic cedar as are the fields.  Backboard was ancient 18” slab of white pine

distressed by time.   The model is a former general store and post office in a small village north of Orangevile, Ontario…Hockley Valley.

And Below is another project.  In this case a farm on the road north to Collingwood.   It was suddenly abandoned

due to a family dispute I was told.  Everything left in the buildings although vandalized when we got permission

from a neighbour to walk through the farm.  When I do this picture I hope to capture the gap toothed barn siding

which really tells the story.  Perhaps the even the farm post box, aslant as in the photo.  Too sad for anyone

to want in their house so maybe I will make it cheery by putting full siding on the barn.  When?  We’ll see.

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