tent up

Here is a tent story.

The deal at the Pierce House is that if you use the same tent as the party following you, you can split the cost of the tent with them. The tent company leaves it up all week so that saves them time and money.

David did not want to use the usual tent that stays there all summer. It's too large, too long and is supported by poles that run down the center of the space. In short, it is ugly. That will never do for someone whose life has been about beautiful structures! So he found an alternative tent. This tent has a ridge pole (kind of like a barn) is wider than the usual one and no poles!!

Now to convince some stranger who was holding a party next weekend to sign off on this tent. He is a guy who travels a lot and is "out of the country" a lot and clearly not thinking about the tent he will be using. He didn't return phone calls, the tent company needed to make plans, the guy who runs the Pierce House was skeptical and wished David would just use the perfectly good tent that is usually there.

Months passed. Too many people seemed to be involved in what was actually a simple thing. And then the pieces all fell into place. So when the tent went up on Tuesday, we went over to see it.
Being inside this tent is a completely different experience than being in the other one. It feels spacious yet holding and makes you want to dance!

Somehow David could tell this by knowing the dimensions, making a drawing and seeing it in three dimensions  in his mind. What a difference it makes. How lucky we are to have an architect on board!