Saturday, December 19, 2009

Moving House

There I was, in Dallas, quietly standing outside a restaurant, reflecting on the state of the world and a magazine deadline when all of a sudden a house went by - on a flatbed. There it was, moving down a side street in Oak Cliff. You don't get that in England. Amazing country, Texas.

Anyway, a pleasant couple captured the thing on their smart I Phones and emailed me the shot. They were from Holland, I think, and wanted to know who I was and where I was from. So I rambled on about guns and England - much consternation in the Dutch camp.

Cheers,

LSP

4 comments:

  1. We had friends in NJ who had their house moved like that. Amazing what can be done.

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  2. It is! Never seen it before on a side street...

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  3. It is quite common here to see a house traveling down the highway. Prefab homes are actually quite an ingenious idea. The house on the farm is a prefab, the basement was poured, the house delivered and just like that, a home! Well not quite that simple but pretty much in a nutshell!

    I still prefer the old fashioned way of watching a house go up, not just dropped off! Technology... positive or negative? Such a debatable topic!

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  4. Thanks for stopping by Darlin - good old technology... I enjoy it well enough - modern guns, computers etc. Surely they're all good enough in themselves provided they're directed to a proper end - which is at something of a premium in our confusing times!

    God bless.

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