August 7, 2004
Naming One's Abode
Rankin' Rob has an interesting post up on house names. My mother was big on naming our places. The farm was called, I think, Timberlake. Our river cottage in Bluffton was Vagabond Villa. The big river house on Wilmington Island was called Liberty Hall for the simple reason there was a wrought-iron plaque of that name on the fence when my parents bought it. I think it may have originally been army barracks or something. That would be back when you couldn't give away riverfront property because of the mosquitoes, so the Army squatted along the banks. Malathion changed all that.
Rob's place is the Kat Farm (don't ask - I was hoping for the Khat Farm). My place is, familiarly, the Velocihovel. More properly it is called Crawl Space (yes, Rob, home is a place).
Got a name for your place? Well, don't tell me. My comments are screwed up. Go tell Rob, because that's where I'll be doing some squatting of my own.