Above, Dee's card for her dad, John Means, is in the mail with Father's Day upcoming. It was a typical greeting card from her, hand-made, this time using a flower and border she cut from an expired wallpaper book that has been saved and bears many missing pieces, due to Dee's imagination and old-fashioned craftsmanship. To Dee this is not worthy of note in the widely broadacast SRN. But it is, to me.She comes by this recycling skill rightly.
Just speaking of her paternal influence, not to mention her mother's which is profound, John Means once built a barn just from recycled billboards from an old job he held. His employment involved erecting billboard signs; ironically, for the same Waukesha WI -headquartered company that at about the same time also employed another billboard hanger, our surrogate dad, Waukeshan Uncle Lee, / See http://raccoonnews.blogspot.com/2009/03/kind-mans-boots-to-fill.html / though John Means was in Pleasant Valley Maryland then, as he always has been. The discards of his choice were given to John for piling up for an eventual barn.
This barn has been romanticized on these pages before, / See http://raccoonnews.blogspot.com/2008/10/poppys-barn.html / Like Dee, who does not herald her creativity, so John Means does not see anything perticularly noteworthy about his utilitarian barn. The front sides of the billboards bearing the advertising face inside and were left, understandably, natural. The outside of the barn has the traditional red color with white trim. Some of the effects, such as the faux windows, add to the pastoral affect, yet affectation is a word unknown to John Means, a two-fisted big man who might leave a rare impression on a deserving jaw, gentle as he is.
WE JOIN THE OTHERS IN WISHING JOHN MEANS,
Everybody should
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