Word: shedding
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...vennes. "They're dream companions, really sweet and good-natured," he says. "I've seen retired people down on their tummies swatting horseflies off their animals, they become so fond of them." They're not the only ones. When it came time to part ways, Stevenson shed a tear for his "elegant" little Modestine. http://ane-et-rando.com; http://anegenti.free.fr
...most relevant experience was laying concrete paths. As Myers puts it, he was "bored of doing nothing." But these days his hands are full. Once a figure is sold, he'll make another by pouring concrete into one of the fiberglass molds in his Aladdin's cave of a shed. People will also bring in broken statues. "This one here is unrepairable," he says, lifting the head off a gnome that was recently retrieved from a garden. "He's been knocked around-knocked around with a sledge hammer. Buggered...
...involved," he says, standing amid bric-a-brac and sheet music piled for sorting, but "I'll have more down time." That means he'll finally be able to complete his hobby, connecting and tuning the unused pipes that make the theater's storerooms look like a plumber's shed. Then, with luck, the organ will live as long as the Son keeps riding...
...There's hardly an exhibit in the Beck Museum-housed in a hangar and shed beside his home at Mareeba, 60 km west of Cairns-that the retired farmer doesn't have a story about: from the recoilless cannon built for a Russian czar to the empty 250-kg chemical bomb from Australia's World War II stockpile, to the Vietnam-era Centurion tank...
...parting with the junk that's affecting her; more the realization that they're about to leave their home of 10 years, a three-bedroom, open-plan house that Zig built himself in his spare time, with a little help from family and friends. "We lived in the shed for a year," says Jennifer, who'll miss the Sydney bluegum floorboards-secret-nailed-most of all. "But the new owners have promised not to carpet over them." She's sad, but looking ahead. "This," she says, "is our sea change...