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[Tvoivozhd <tvoivozd AT infionline.net>]

Gene GeRue wrote:

> Yeah, I remember that old correspondence. You had me going for a dirt 
> floor. Then I found that it scratches pretty easy. Dax and Benny's 
> nails would give it a design that Chris would not accept.


tvoivozhd---poor Dax and Benny always get the blame.  I talked to Chris 
and she says it's actually your toenails that put an earth floor at 
risk.  We understand---with the passage of so many firkins of Bad Beer 
down past the tonsils, you haven't seen your toenails for a long, long time.

> At 09:19 PM 11/13/2004 -0800, you wrote:
>
> > Old correspondence with Anita Sands, our resident signs of the Zodiac 
> > forecast---but mostly on dirt floors and their (great) advantages.
> > *THE JOY OF A MUD FLOOR*
> >
> > Throw your mops away. This floor is MADE of DIRT so dirt doesn't 
> > HURT! This I learned from the Homesteaders list when a lister asked 
> > The resident Yoda, Master of the Universe, Tiv, a question.
> > Q: you obviously like earthen floors. Could you elaborate a little? 
> > Why do you like them better than other types of flooring?
> >
> > Tvoivozhd: The only cheaper floor is wall-to-wall carpet over 
> > polyethylene sheet over sand over polyethylene sheet vapor barrier. I 
> > hate unsanitary, uncleanable offgassing carpeting.
> >
> > My introduction to earth floors was in a friend's house in 
> > Jamshedpur, India. His brother built and ran the biggest steelmill in 
> > the British Empire---he could afford anything he wanted. What he 
> > wanted and what he got was a gorgeous, wide-walled adobe house with 
> > beautiful dirt floors, and filled with a couple hundred thousand 
> > dollars of furniture.
> >
> > I was fascinated by the appearance of the floor---the look and feel 
> > of Cordovan leather. Asked him what it was. He said dirt mixed with 
> > goat urine and several coats of linseed oil.applied as finish coat. 
> > It probably had some lime in it---he didn't know.