http://peterbealfurniture.com/blog Losing my Home and Studio Thu, 23 Jul 2009 04:06:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In working on www.SupportBeal I happened to visit REO America's website and was so touched to see the extent to which they help those less fortunate in their community: http://www.reo-america.com/meet-us.php?role=community-involvement. (click the "Community Involvment" item on the "Services" menu on the left side of the screen) I have yet to see any ... http://peterbealfurniture.com/blog/2009/01/25/homewrecking/ So I went over to put back up the "Don't flip..." sign that had blown over in last week's wind storm...got to the intersection and it was gone? Started down the road to talk to the M-Go-Blue barn owners about what had happened to the sign when I see the ... http://peterbealfurniture.com/blog/2008/04/02/putting-back-up-the-sign/ They burned the chicken house yesterday. There was no good reason for doing so... I just don't know what to say about this. I'm reminded of the Theoden's line from the film of The Two Towers, "What can men do against such wreckless hate?" But it's not hate so much as stupidity and ... http://peterbealfurniture.com/blog/2008/03/22/burning-the-chicken-house/ So, I don't know why I thought it was a good idea to start a blog since I am not like my sister who HAS/HAD the discipline and drive to make more or less daily entries and comments to her diary, something I was never able to do... But also, I ... http://peterbealfurniture.com/blog/2008/03/08/support-from-the-ups-dispatcher/ So I'm going down the highway, on my way to teach class and see a large truck in the drive at 1960. I know I have to go back and see what's happening or it'll be on my mind all through class. The truck is gone, I look in the ... http://peterbealfurniture.com/blog/2008/03/06/the-beatings-will-continue/ 05-20-2007 Driving Dad's Bus, which has the "Don't flip..." bumper sticker on it, was stopped at a light when a very respectable SUV, with two matching women in it, pulled aside. The window went down and she asked, "What's this 'don't flip 1960' all about?" "It's that piece of property that the company ... http://peterbealfurniture.com/blog/2007/05/27/waiting-at-the-stoplight/ Photo of the Beal taken by the grining youth in the previous group http://peterbealfurniture.com/blog/2007/05/12/out-back-winter-84/ Early 80's, working on Brooks kitchen, I believe. Still hardcore idealists... http://peterbealfurniture.com/blog/2007/05/01/associates/ Main working space on the interior at the time the picture below was taken... http://peterbealfurniture.com/blog/2006/12/28/lathework-in-the-early-80s/ Early days, before the roof was re-worked... Although the structural core of the barn is essentially unchanged and has many of it's (charming) flaws, the exterior appearance has evolved... Still, a barn on a concrete slab. Tree growing through the roof has died and been taken down. http://peterbealfurniture.com/blog/2006/12/28/when-a-tree-still-grew-out-of-the-roof/