Tearing Down the House Party!!
These are the stats: 96 beers, 12 pounds of hamburger, 8 meatless patties, 9 tomatoes, 2 blocks of cheese, 24 buns, 30 best friends, 1 videographer, 1 band, and 2 dance performances. The whole house is coming down in one day. Siding, roof, and floors. We’ll salvage what we can. The rest: We’re gonna burn it.
So goes the list I took down verbatim from a phone conversation I had with my Asheville potter son Josh this past Friday night. I was going to be working all weekend doing respite foster care, so would miss the “fun and a little bit of dirty work.” But my husband, Joe, who bought Josh a sledge hammer for Christmas, headed out for the three hour drive to Josh’s two acres to be a crew leader. The old house on the property wasn’t worth saving. A new house will eventually take its place.
Since his days as a little boy with his teddy bear ninja army, to his love for the Red Sox and the big clay dig in the fall of 2005, my son, Josh Copus, aka Josh Circus, has been keeping stats. Since the “After Fool’s Day Parade Party” where Josh took to the street wearing a suit that made him look like the Riddler, to the Drury Fest, which involved him in a gorilla suit and 90 people tubing down a river, Josh has been producing events.
I sent two cameras with Joe. I hope he can capture a small part of this bigger than life occasion.
Watch a video clip HERE!
March 25th, 2007 9:35 am
Well it sounds like good food and good times while tearing the place down. Good for him for being smart enough to get a little help from his friends! I like his way of doing things.
March 25th, 2007 10:26 am
beer, food, friend, and destuction, sounds like fun…I mean really who could ask for more….sounds like you have it all there!
Michele sent me
March 25th, 2007 10:33 am
ahh to DEMO a whole house, what a thrill.
I am sorry I missed the party.
music: Burning down the house!
happy for your son, he has a good mom.
March 25th, 2007 11:47 am
I love new beginnings and your post was so sadly sweet. It is with mixed joy as we watch our sweet little ones turn into sweet big ones.
March 25th, 2007 1:32 pm
Sounds like an event little and big boys will enjoy to the fullest extent! Look forward to seeing the pics.
Susan
March 25th, 2007 3:00 pm
We had the same kind of fun on a smaller scale when we destroyed the fence around our patio…I love sledgehammers. That kind of work can be dangerous but not as dangerous as yardwork. You should go see
March 25th, 2007 5:39 pm
What a fantastic project! I too hope your Joe is taking lots and lots of pictures of this “happening”….This really is like an Art Project, isn’t it? I look forward to seeing the results, Colleen…and it’s too bad you could not join them all!
March 25th, 2007 5:40 pm
What’s a good way to get it known that you have a blog?
March 25th, 2007 7:43 pm
Leigh, one good way to meet other bloggers is to go to micheleagnew.com. On the weekends she hosts a meet and greet. You visit the blogger before your comment and the next blogger visits you.
March 25th, 2007 7:50 pm
Wow. Tearing down the house, huh? (why do I suddenly have The Talking Heads in my head?) Impressive.
Thanks for visiting West of Mars, Colleen. I hope you can find time to read in all that chaos! And no, Susan (doesn’t) got fried fries. But I’ve got too many books; does that count?
Thanks for the chuckle at my name. Usually, it winds up embarrassing me.
March 25th, 2007 8:15 pm
That reminds me of a party I went to as a teen… it took place in a condemned house. Talk about liberating!
Michele sent me,
Mike
March 26th, 2007 9:32 am
~~ A friend of mine bought a house very similar to josh’s, up in a little town in Missouri ~~ It was being auctioned off, and her father talked her into going to the auction, “Just to see some things” — within 10 minutes of the auction, her father somehow got her to make the bid on the house…something to the tune of $1,000. She didn’t even know she’d bought the place, ’till she looked at her father an’ asked, “Did I just buy something?” The building eventually caught fire and all she has left is the nagging question of why the $$%}! her father let he buy the place at all…
March 26th, 2007 10:31 am
i received a bulletin from josh about this on my myspace site. i hope to be able to see the video- i bet it will be a hoot!
and i haven’t ever heard of “solvent green”…what is it about?
March 26th, 2007 11:28 am
It’s an old Charlton Heston Science fiction movie. Food is scarce and they eat this stuff called Solvent Green. At the end of the movie you find out that Solvent Green is people. They are killing people and feeding people with people. I told you it was a gruesome premise!
Joe took the video. I saw some of it last night, but it will take a while to process.
March 26th, 2007 3:18 pm
It must have been fun! I’ve never demolished a house.
March 26th, 2007 6:23 pm
I know it has to come down but in a way it’s a sad event. The memories or spirit of a family may still reside in some way in those timbers…or maybe they were just looking on!
March 26th, 2007 11:11 pm
So did they get the job done? Deconstruction seems to be the perfect way to release all those pent up tensions, work out the kinks. Someone hand me a sledgehammer!
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