Happy Birthday, Abe Lincoln, 200 years old! I've been thinking how to honor him and we watched a show on PBS last night with ol' Skip Gates talking about 16, and now I am thinking about Lincoln Logs which is stupid but related. Today I learned that the toy was invented by one of the children of the great architect of the previous century Frank Lloyd Wright! My mind wanders and wonders and I think if we cleared our land, could we put up a new house made of Lincoln logs--a real one? Here is something I got off their site, and I think it might be tight, but it is nice and maybe we could scale it down just a scosh. Queens needs more variety in housing styles--barns, silos, castles, half-built-into-the-earth homes, geodesic domes, all kinds of alternative housing ideas....And people going by might appreciate a Ponderosa style for a change. Ah, just one of my thoughtexperiments. I could just go to Home Depot and buy a log cabin-type shed and put it out back. I love our purple house too much to change, even if there is a possum living in our basement! But that's another story! Happy 200th, Abe.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Lincoln Logs
Happy Birthday, Abe Lincoln, 200 years old! I've been thinking how to honor him and we watched a show on PBS last night with ol' Skip Gates talking about 16, and now I am thinking about Lincoln Logs which is stupid but related. Today I learned that the toy was invented by one of the children of the great architect of the previous century Frank Lloyd Wright! My mind wanders and wonders and I think if we cleared our land, could we put up a new house made of Lincoln logs--a real one? Here is something I got off their site, and I think it might be tight, but it is nice and maybe we could scale it down just a scosh. Queens needs more variety in housing styles--barns, silos, castles, half-built-into-the-earth homes, geodesic domes, all kinds of alternative housing ideas....And people going by might appreciate a Ponderosa style for a change. Ah, just one of my thoughtexperiments. I could just go to Home Depot and buy a log cabin-type shed and put it out back. I love our purple house too much to change, even if there is a possum living in our basement! But that's another story! Happy 200th, Abe.
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Who says you couldn't paint the Lincoln logs house purple? I vote for green trim, a nice bright lime. There's a Victorian style house around the corner from me and I am bitterly disappointed that it's a dull blue with tan and some white trim. I want pink and purple and green with gold leaf accents. The Bay Ridgers would shit their pants.
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