To: ralfph who wrote (4997 ) 8/26/2003 2:10:16 AM From: marcos Read Replies (1) | Respond to We'll be fine here, pretty organised, got lots of fuel-free ground on all sides but one, and for that i've made good preparation ..... it's not the end of the world to lose your house, according to a friend, he lost his in the early seventies, just came home one day and it was gone, nobody even noticed, you couldn't see it from any other house and around here in those days when you saw smoke outside fire season you just assumed it was somebody clearing land .... it was an old farmhouse, balloon construction, total process from first flame to flat level coals was likely no more than half an hour ...... anyway he's always said that this freed up his life, he built another house with the insurance money, worked overseas for years, managed to get rid of his first wife and meet a better one, generally felt more free ..... this could be a defense mechanism at work, because he had lots of great stuff from all over the world in the old house, and they had been burnt out with literally nothing but the clothes they were wearing, but he maintains he'd have it no other way [well, what choice does he have]In 1908, the Model T was born. 19 years and 15 million Model T's later, Ford Motor Company was a giant industrial complex 'ford.com - too bad they don't give a timeline of models here, what i don't know about cars would fill volumes, i just assumed that model A would come before model T [well duh, shoudn't it, lol] ... it's 32 fords the local guy restored, that's right, with all those models, roadsters and all .... my fantasy pickup would be a '48 ford, a guy i worked with once had one, i could have bought it and didn't, aargh .... dodge powerwagons, there were many in the woods thirty and forty years ago, they were the first four wheel drives used, an outfit called Malloch and Moseley had two or three at least ..... rode like they had no springs, because, well, they didn't, lol
