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Saturday, January 27, 2007

The Project

Madame and Monsieur UD are off to Boonsboro, Maryland, in search of a guy there who builds Japanese teahouses. They may want one of these, or they may want (UD has only just learned this phrase) a meditation hut. They're not sure.

What they are sure of is that they want to build, high on the hill behind their house, a place to read and write and think and look at the view.

If the thing actually does get built, meditation will be spotty for awhile as indignant desert birds and other angry wildlife skulks about.
Posted at: 1/27/2007 10:16:00 AM