Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/01/21

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Subject: [Leica] leica added a spare room to my house!
From: kcarney1 at cox.net (Ken Carney)
Date: Mon Jan 21 16:34:15 2008

Mine is being converted into a room for my wife to grow plants during the
winter, to be ready for spring.  It's kind of sad, really.  No, not
really...

Ken

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+kcarney1=cox.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-
> bounces+kcarney1=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Kyle Cassidy
> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 6:52 AM
> To: lug@leica-users.org
> Subject: [Leica] leica added a spare room to my house!
> 
> 
> i "used" my darkroom for the last time on friday evening when a young
> woman from south carolina who'd answered one of those "darkroom free to
> good home" ads i've been putting up forever, drove up to cart off the rest
> of my equipment; a 4x5 enlarger and related junk which had been gathering
> dust since 2001. i realized that i hadn't been IN that room since 2003 at
> least. what lives of excess some of us lead to have whole wings of our
> homes shut down and dissused like the sealed off rooms of some great
> gothic pile in Dark Shadows ... but as i stood there, asking her about her
> 4x5 as her boyfriend dusted off the enlarger and started the laborious
> process of dragging it up the stairs, i saw things in the darkroom that
> i'd long since thought lost or destroyed, a jacket i'd been looking for
> for months, paintings and framed prints i'd forgotten about -- and now,
> all this space! like a secret room discovered! and not only that, it
> contains a forgotten stereo!
> 
> i've heard that manhattenites often dream that they've found a new room
> hidden in their small apartments, behind a cupboard or behind a loose tile
> in the wash room and here! here we have a spare room, free with the
> purchase of a leica d300 -- what a deal!
> 
> kyle
> 
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Replies: Reply from philippe.amard at tele2.fr (Philippe AMARD) ([Leica] leica added a spare room to my house!)
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In reply to: Message from kcassidy at asc.upenn.edu (Kyle Cassidy) ([Leica] leica added a spare room to my house!)