by Richard L. Thornton, Architect & City Planner
Early type log house
I was not given copies of the photos of the log houses near Van Buren Furnace in Shenandoah County that I discussed yesterday, but this morning, I found a photo of a similar style log house from another isolated valley in Shenandoah County, Virginia. These houses originally had very few, if any windows. Those on the side of the house were cut through the logs in the 20th century. The two on the lower level, would have originally been double wood shutters, not glass windows.
The original reason for having few windows were the incessant raids by Native American allies of the French. They attacked Virginia’s indigenous peoples too, not just whites and African-Americans. Also, these pioneers had very little cash with which to buy windows. Because of the difficulty of transporting windows from the carpenter shops near Williamsburg and Jamestown, they were extremely expensive.
Weird COVID dreams
I apologize for the many typos in the previous article. They have been corrected. Actually, a few minutes after posting the article, I fell asleep in my computer chair and slept till noon. I awoke at the climax of a sweet dream that turned into a nightmare. Whenever I get a touch of COVID, I have weird dreams. Sure enough. I used one of those COVID test kits from the CDC and tested positive. However, I got a good night’s sleep and feel okay this morning.
One of the many dirty little secrets from the Pandemic is that the first cases of COVID and the first deaths in the United States occurred here in the Nacoochee Valley. The US Army Rangers have a camp here. They brought COVID back home from the Wuhan Games and it spread like wild fire among the fall tourist crowd at Alpine Helen, GA.
I had already experienced Types A, C and D COVID before there was a vaccine available. So, I catch the latest version of COVID from time to time, but it passes very quickly.
Yesterday’s COVID dream
It started out nice enough. Susan Karlson and I were popping popcorn atop my bed in my former house in Jasper, GA. That’s the house that I was evicted from on Christmas Eve 2009. Yes, it is weird to use an electric popcorn popper on top of a bed . . . but it was nice to be with Susan again, even if it was in a dream. We did like to watch Scandinavian movies about history or romance in the bedroom, while munching on popcorn . . . of course, popped in the kitchen, not on the bed. LOL
Suddenly, I spilled an entire gallon of hot popcorn within my under-trousers. That is technically impossible, but all things are possible with COVID. The pain seemed real enough. I began jumping up and down on the bed, like it was a trampoline. Seconds later, I woke up to find myself, jumping up and down in front of the computer, with both dogs barking at me. Enough said . . . LOL
The Americas Revealed 
Hahaha. Glad you are better, after a sleep, even a dreamful sleep.
My medical texts from 1985 say coronavirus is common and responsible for about 15-20 percent of common colds. This was, of course before medical technology and geoengineering made a big deal of coronavirus to satify Big Pharma’s need for a treatment or cure. My sources are now telling me the treatments are worse than the disease. Dreams are still free and without complications, except to awaken your dogs.
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And now I have listened to and watched Debbie Gibson’s video/song/dance on your post. Now I understand why your dogs were barking. That woman has so much energy that I had to wonder if she was lip-syncing the words.
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