4BEGINNING AT THE MOMENT OF APPLY AND DESIGNING FROM THERE

Many things difficult to design prove easy to perform.

—Samuel Johnson

A STORY TO GET STARTED:BUILDING WITHOUT DESIGN, FROM CON

My father and I added a storage room onto the basement of our home at the request of my mother. We figured that we could do it even though we had never done anything like it before. In my home town of Circleville, there weren’t any restrictions for projects like this. So we had Shirl Fox drop by with his backhoe and dig a hole next to the house where we thought the room ought to be. The Dalton Brothers brought a load of cement and dropped it in the bottom of the hole for a floor. We asked Johnson Ruby to stop by and show us how to lay the cinderblock (he instructed ...

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