A gift hint for urban sketchers - you can give people a drawing of their house, even if they live on the other side of the country. You don't have to be there, because Google Streetview almost certainly has been. I was actually at my sister's red-brick house in Kingston this fall, but didn't think to take a picture. So, the all-seeing eye of Google to the rescue...
The other little house is The Viking cabin at Hollyburn, in the hey-day of its pink phase, long before Google. The cabin, we are told, was painted pink by a former owner as a protest against some restriction placed on his architectural ambitions by the municipality. When we acquired it last summer, it was an inglorious brown, and on - or mostly fallen off - its last legs. Fortunately a few old photos and a bit of imagination let me restore it, at least in the drawing for Kelly. The real cabin we had to disassemble, salvaging non-rotten logs, hauling painted parts down the trail and to the landfill, and burning the unusable clean wood. Next summer, we'll build a very similar replacement. But not pink. Purple maybe? Chartreuse? Or perhaps just natural unpainted wood...
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