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Me Musing .
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today . . . July 20, 2009
I have been
busy the past few weeks working on more Walker genealogy and just
realized I had not written about the name I have given the barn
. . . Chinra-Minka.
Chinra (pronounced
shin-rah) is an ancestral name and Minka is what the old traditional
farmhouses in Japan were called. The roofline of the old red barn
soooooo reminds me of photos of the minkas I have seen, many of
which have been torn down, making way for so-called 'modernity'
and a few of which, thanks to dedicated people like Yoshihiro Takishita,
have been dismantled, moved and rebuilt, preserving this incredible
architectural form.
This is a great
photo from Takishita's fabulous book (Japanese
Country Style, putting new life into old houses) of the re-thatching
of one of the roofs. The people working on it look like 'spider
people'!!!!!!
Escrow closed
on the old red barn last Tuesday and Eb and I relaxed under the
plum tree, pleased as punch that by my purchase, we were able to
preserve a little bit of Aetna history.
Very
apropos, me thinks,
that the only tree on the barnlot
is a plum tree . . . in keeping with the Minka theme!
As we relaxed
there we kept looking across the backlot at the little cottage-house
next door (same owner) that was for sale, wishing there was some
way I could also buy it. We even laughed with friends about all
pooling our money and using it as a 'time-share/vacation home'!!!!!!
Everyone had thoughts of wanting to buy the little house, but no
one was making any serious attempt at it . . . until a few days
ago when, as we used to say back on the farm, "I
decided to go whole-hog"!!!!
I made an offer,
they countered, I countered back, they accepted and tonight it is
a done deal!
It just seems
like the two properties should stay together and now they will!
I love this
photo . . .
the Cottage-house and Chinra Minka barn
with Mt. Aetna in background . . . the same view
of the mountain as I had at my little house in old Aetna!
Front of the
Cottage-house
Backyard looking
toward mountains
Backyard looking
toward the barn's backlot and
extra garage/workshop
It's
good we spent that afternoon relaxing under the plum tree as we
will have lots of work ahead of us . . .
But,
as a friend said recently, 'everyone needs a project'!
Until
soon,
Che'usa
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