Half Timber Town.....

This morning I didn't get to mini, because we were out doing other things.  This afternoon, I got some of the foundation stonework done....At least put in place. I finished the main building and am about half way around on the base.  That takes a lot of time....Two pieces for each stone and all individually cut and fit.

As I worked, I started thinking about how much I like half timber buildings.  Maybe I lived in one in a former lifetime.

Then I thought about all of the ones that I have.  Parts of the fairy tale castle make it a "sort of" half timber. That building has a lot of different architecture patch worked together.  But there is definitely a lot of stone work and some half timber.  So I say it's in.

Then I walked around and looked. 

The most recent one is the Crooked Cottage, which I bought, but I intend to do some work on it, so I guess it could be included.  I decided yesterday, that it will be an embroiderer's cottage.  I have drawings of a workshop from a little later time than some of the other cottages, but I think that they must have had pros doing lace making and embroidery a little earlier than the drawing.  It is from the 17th century.  After all, QE1 probably needed a LOT of people to do all of the elaborate costumes that she wore.

The next one is Tessie's hat shop...The outside qualifies...If I seriously wanted to do it as part of a street of shops, only the inside would have to be altered.

Oh!  And I guess I would have to replace the motorcycle with a horse.

Otherwise, it qualifies.

Then there is the Witches Warehouse.  This one calls for a bit of suspension of belief, if you don't believe in witches. 

Personally, I live with one every day, so I have to believe that it qualifies.  Maybe on the outskirts of town...I a forest somewhere.

This is the only one that is realllllly questionable.  Do you suppose that anybody back then thought of putting wheels on a house and dragging it around behind a team of very strong horses?

And anyway, The Clockwork Caravan doesn't move.  It's on a stone foundation just like the rest of them.  It has a turret(We just won't tell anybody that there is a nuclear powered shower inside.).

The roof pavilion would be an excellent place to view the jousting. 

OK...So it is a bit questionable.  Hey!  This is my town.  If Zar wants to live on the street, I say he can do it.

I am now thinking that we need an inn, a market place, maybe a blacksmith's shop...This could grow into something bigger than our house if I let it.....Maybe I should just stop thinking now....Yup. No more thinking today.

See you tomorrow.