On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:32:03 -0800, the infamous "Nonny"
scrawled the following:


"Swingman" wrote in message
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Nonny wrote:

"Swingman" wrote in message
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Nonny wrote:
In another thread, I mentioned the possible use of marble or
granite as an inlay for a table or desk. That reminded me
that I'd built some planters of marble and perhaps they'll
give you an idea or two for your own home.


Beautiful work ... your home looks like a magazine ad.

Thanks for the kind words. We loved the house, and had many
good memories of it.

Sorry about the past tense. We're reluctantly coming to grips
with the fact that the property taxes are just going to be too
high to retire in what we thought would be our last house, one
we designed, built ourselves, and most of the furniture in it.

In any event, your work is impressive and inspiring.

Merry Christmas to you and yours ...

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Again, thanks for the words. In fact, the house was totally
destroyed by a fire that began outside the shop, in an adjoining
garage. Within about a half hour, it was a smoldering ruin. We
had good insurance and I had many documentary photographs, since I
came from a profession that had to deal with insurance matters for
borrowers. We knew that while we would have the insurance proceeds
to rebuild the home, what were we going to put on the shelves or
hang on the walls. If you have a library with around 4000 books,
what books do you buy to replace the burned ones?

Oh, man! Did you have a list of titles or closeup photos of the
bookshelves, perchance? Thinking about it, I should do that for my
own book collection right now.


We felt that the most simple and emotionally favorable solution
would be to simply NOT rebuild, but to sell the lot. We'd never
lived in the SW, so Las Vegas was a good candidate. We literally.
. .literally. . . put every tangible thing we owned at the time
into half of a small U-haul trailer, hooked it to the new van (the
cars were burned in the garages) and pointed the nose west toward
the desert.

Suckage!


I enjoy writing, and now that I think about it, I think I'll write
a monograph about some of the insurance issues we faced with the
many things I'd built that were lost in the fire and how we worked
it out with State Farm. It just might help you or some of the
other good folk here in the newsgroup and r.w.w. if they get into
a similar bind, have a tornado or other insurable disaster.

When I worked as a wrench for a body shop, the nickname for State Farm
was Snake Farm. They weren't very well liked there. YMMV.

Yes, please write the monograph, Nonny.

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