Name that House

**ThistleDown** · 18th November 08, 01:50 PM

Originally Posted by beloitpiper

Damn, I forgot the aspiration! Ah well, I'm still learning.

Thanks BP and Slohairt. I'm looking at restoring a former hen house in Inverness-shire and, since it is now known only as "the hen house", thought I could either keep that name or translate it to the Gaelic. Probably, in the end, it will stay as it is. Sort of appropriate for a falconer, isn't it

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The Wizard offered a couple of pics of his former guest house in Victoria on Vancouver Island. The following is my place, ThistleDown, on the BC mainland.

**sydnie7** · 18th November 08, 04:18 PM

ThistleDown, are you looking to adopt? I'm a good cook, and Bob is handy to have around. . .

That is just a lovely house!

One of my sisters and her husband moved into the Santa Ynez Valley (long known for Solvang and later, unfortunately, Michael Jackson's "NeverLand") as first-year teachers. They rented a small place with the mailing address "The Little Ranch House, 40 Acre Farm, Solvang CA" or something to that effect. Not sure if it's still there or if the wind has finally blown it down

That would have been in late 1970s. . .

And another sister and her husband built in the Sierra foothills east of Chico CA, named their place Windridge although it has a street number and name for USPS. Was looking for a pic of their view over Central Valley, but best I can come up with is the flock of wild turkeys that wander through the front yard several times a day

**Smayniac** · 18th November 08, 04:30 PM

The village of Carmel-by-the-Sea on the Monterey Peninsula in California has long had names instead of addresses. Many of the houses on Seventeen Mile Drive do as well.

Bob

**ThistleDown** · 18th November 08, 06:13 PM

Thanks, Sydnie7, we love it, too. I think I'd rather have your sister's turkeys than our own visiting wildlife, though. Black bears make a bigger mess, I suspect.

**sydnie7** · 18th November 08, 08:13 PM

Originally Posted by ThistleDown

Thanks, Sydnie7, we love it, too. I think I'd rather have your sister's turkeys than our own visiting wildlife, though. Black bears make a bigger mess, I suspect.

No shortage of those nuisances. But bro-in-law insists on feeding the smaller wildlife (foxes, feral cats, etc.) so I just laugh when he complains about the bears. This was just a little fellow but Jim has had them rip the door off the shed where birdseed was stored. . . no, I didn't pixelate his face to protect his ID, just my level of wildlife photography