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  Jeremy Patterson
 
(America's answer to Pete Mills)
Moving houses - and other buildings
 - by road transport
 
   
  Click here to find out more from his website As seen on Channel 5 earlier this year.  
  The Company move about 360 structures per year!
To see a video of the moving of a 3 storey office block -
click here.
The move above is the historic Murillo building in Iowa which was due for demolition to make room for
Corporate Headquarters.  Cost of the move - £650,000
 
       
  Patterson is not unique, check out this video of 1928.
Check the move of a 9000 ton church down the street. The resting place was accurate to half an inch -
 
click here.   Horses were used to tow the church!
Patterson doesn't tackle skyscrapers on the move.
Check out this video of the moving of the Petronas
Twin Towers in Malaysia -
click here.
Other buildings and structures are also mentioned.
 
       
                M,PLs RITE on TABS & GIV 2 PPL             Massage - but is it video or animation?  
 

1.     no1 b4 me. srsly.
2.     dnt wrshp pix/idols
3.     no omg's
4.     no wrk on w/end
        (sat 4 now; sun l8r)
5.     pos ok - ur m&d r cool
6.     dnt kill ppl
7.     :-X only w/m8
8.     dnt steal
9.     dnt lie re: bf
10.   dnt ogle ur bf's m8
       0r ox. or dnkey. myob.

If God had texted the Ten Commandments to Moses!

 
       
  UNUSUAL landscapes  
   
            Stone Crocodile                  Stone Elephant                  Stone Reptile                              Stone Cat  
     
 


What would you do - now be honest?
Construction workers in
Vienna fled when a naked blonde woman charged at them shouting  “Who wants me?” The   startled labourers were working on a building site near the Austrian capital’s railway station when the portly woman appeared. “We like to chat up the girls as they walk past – it’s tradition” said one. “But this woman was too much   to handle and we hid until the police got here. No one liked to think what would happen if she caught one of us”    
 

 
     
  CRACKED POTS - An ancient chinese fable  
 
A
n elderly Chinese woman had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a pole which she carried across her neck.  One of the pots had a crack in it while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water.  At the end of the long walks from the stream to the house, the cracked pot arrived only half full.  For a full two years this went on daily, with the woman bringing home only one and a half pots of water..  Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments. 

But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection, and miserable that it could only do half of what it had been made to do.  After two years of what it perceived to be bitter failure, it spoke to the woman one day by the stream.  'I am ashamed of myself, because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your house.'

The old woman smiled, 'Did you notice that there are flowers on your side of the path, but not on the other pot's side?  That's because I have always known about your flaw, so I planted flower seeds on your side of the path, and every day while we walk back, you water them.  For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate the table.  Without you being just the way you are, there would not be this beauty to grace the house.'

Each of us has our own unique flaw. But it's the cracks and flaws we each have that make our lives together so very interesting and rewarding.  You've just got to take each person for what they are and look for the  good in them.
 
 
     

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