— Mike Shaffer from The Small House Works
Burl's House
Burl was 33 years old when he watched
a new community being built in Clarksville and he couldn’t wait to save
enough money to buy a home there. By the time he was 63 he was able to
realize his life-long dream but three days after he moved in a terrible
thing happened. Coming home on Friday the 13th he ran into the kitchen
and kissed his wife or 43 years only to discover he was in the wrong house.
Burl realized then that all the houses on the street where he lived looked
the same. With the embarrassing incident constantly on his mind and to
prevent it from happening again Burl painted his entire house red.
Katrina's House
Katrina tries not to wish she
had a different name because her name is the same as the name given the
hurricane that destroyed her house and her neighborhood in 2005. She
had always loved her name since it was given her in honor of her great
grandmother Katrina Anne. While Katrina’s father rebuilt their house,
Katrina went to stay with her uncle Mathew who owns a jewelry store.
On her birthday, Uncle Mathew surprised her with a beautiful black onyx
necklace because black onyx is known to protect its owner from misfortune.
When Katrina moved back to New Orleans the next year she found that her
father had built a beautiful new home on four strong posts and finished
the outside with crystals made from black onyx.
