Lets Get Physical From Planetaria Obscura - August 2016 Issue
Physical, I want to get physical - lemme here your building talk. Your building talk. I’m halfway there! I still don’t love what I DO in the building, the shows or lack thereof, but I’ve finally built my stage. Why is that important? Well for one, I may have to take it on the road. If we do sell our farm in 10 years due to creeping senility, I can reconstruct this somewhere else. I don’t want another one in some garage some where. I want THIS ONE in some garage somewhere. It took me many many years to get this one. I think I could dismantle most of it and move it. Sort of like when people retire and downsize. My parents left it all behind and bought totally new furniture. My wife’s parents brought the same furniture to their new retirement home and set up sort of the same rooms in a new house. I actually prefer that approach. I’ve become somewhat obsessed with PORTABLE, after spending 30 years here thinking, feet first, only way I’m coming out of here is feet first. Actually, everywhere you go is feet first I finally decided (unless you have a really big nose), and those feet were made for walking! And that might be just what they’ll do. Maybe not. Gotta live one day at a time. But planning for 65, or 70, or 80 years of age, you begin to envision that time when the next owner says, well after we knock all that down, we’ll plant tomatoes back here. Like I should have done maybe. But by then, if I left, and its not decided but it might happen, by then I would have set it all up in some other garage or barn. Because it was permanent but portable. Don’t build anything you cant put wheels on. Or grow tomatoes in.
Physical, I want to get physical - lemme here your building talk. Your building talk. I’m halfway there! I still don’t love what I DO in the building, the shows or lack thereof, but I’ve finally built my stage. Why is that important? Well for one, I may have to take it on the road. If we do sell our farm in 10 years due to creeping senility, I can reconstruct this somewhere else. I don’t want another one in some garage some where. I want THIS ONE in some garage somewhere. It took me many many years to get this one. I think I could dismantle most of it and move it. Sort of like when people retire and downsize. My parents left it all behind and bought totally new furniture. My wife’s parents brought the same furniture to their new retirement home and set up sort of the same rooms in a new house. I actually prefer that approach. I’ve become somewhat obsessed with PORTABLE, after spending 30 years here thinking, feet first, only way I’m coming out of here is feet first. Actually, everywhere you go is feet first I finally decided (unless you have a really big nose), and those feet were made for walking! And that might be just what they’ll do. Maybe not. Gotta live one day at a time. But planning for 65, or 70, or 80 years of age, you begin to envision that time when the next owner says, well after we knock all that down, we’ll plant tomatoes back here. Like I should have done maybe. But by then, if I left, and its not decided but it might happen, by then I would have set it all up in some other garage or barn. Because it was permanent but portable. Don’t build anything you cant put wheels on. Or grow tomatoes in.
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