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Show Tn. "' .. '( -j-f y -- j n p- i p ! iniiwyn-iiil)tl- yi Wednesday, November 4, Emery County Progress 'czrrri Cabin in a home - a Seely original By Elizabeth Hanson News Writer Racing the stork has Montell Seely car- pentering overtime these days. Wife Kathryn delivered an ultimatum. She is not bringing the new baby home to the trailer and the new house better be ready soon enough so they can move in within a week. The baby is due in mid November and she does not want the family to move during her absence. She would never be able to find anything, she claims. Montell finds himself in a situation similar to that of his grandfather, Justus Wellington Seely. In October 1877, grandfather lost the race with the stork when his wife gave birth to a daughter in Cottonwood Canyon enroute to their new cabin near Orangeville. The story is immortalized in the Castle Valley Pageant which Montell wrote. He intends to win his race, although much unfinished work will remain. At least he will have the kitchen-famil- y room, bedrooms and baths ready for occupancy. He started to build the home on the knoll overlooking the historic Seely farm three years ago. Dick Wells helped with he framing, but Montell has been doing all the work alone since then. He says about half of the house is salvaged materials and using used materials demands slow, painstaking toil to fit and refurbish. Well probably never be finished if I do all the novel things we have planned. It is not a plush house, it is more like a bam or a fort. I like the pioneer look and I need places to shelter the many pioneer tools and artifacts I have, he said. A step through the side door proves his Montell Seely A rug , that is More than something to walk on Roseann Davis Rugs are more than something to walk on in Adeline Starrs home in Huntington. They represent an attitude toward life The warp can be broken if you shake them, so you try not to ever shake them, Adeline warns. So how do you clean them? Just like you clean that propels her she exthrough a multitude of a carpet, have These and hobbies, projects plains. interests. Nearly 40 years ago a visiting builders wife offered to teach Adeline to hook rugs using a hump - back crochet hook, carpet warp and strips of fabric. Oh I could never learn to do that! she said. Oh yes you can if you want to, She her recently took craft to a leadership conference at USU for the Extension Service. She demonstrated the art and offered to teach it to the women, but children to use as prayer rugs. People often ask how long it takes to make a rug. She tells them, When you work on them day and night I do, hand quilting, ceramics, - braided rugs, crocheting and a monumental autobishe has ography written. I guess Im kind of I hyperactive, to have just point. The door itself is made of thick, wide slabs. The walls are pine logs and door and walls are set under massive beams, 23 feet long, which he salvaged from Joes Valley construction. But the log cabin within the home has to be the most unique feature of the home. Montell salvaged siding from the Merald Rasmussen cabin and built a two sided cabin. The window is to have curtains with old - fashioned tiebacks. Pioneer objects are hanging from the exterior. A glance inside reveals a lively carpeted, sheet rocked room just right for 10 LeAnn. A carbide chandelier picked year-ol- d up from the dump is being refinished and hung. LeAnn begs to have the new baby in her room. The new arrival will be the seventh child. The sixth, Monette, lost her life in an accident at six months of age. Down the hall are a bedroom for Mark, 7, a spacious utility room, and a master bedroomdressing and bath combination. The windows are placed low so one may revel in the view while in bed. The parlor will remain unfinished for a while because it is not needed. The kitchen and family room offer sufficient living space for a big family. A heat efficient fireplace will be faced with white limestone. The hardwood floors will be laid to permit square dancing and socials. The flooring was salvaged from the old Orangeville schoolhouse. A deck is to be built outside the west door. It will allow more space for the square dancing and parties the Seelys enjoy. The kitchen features an attractive striped carpet and is large enough to use massive furnishing to advantage. All new and modem are the sinks, cabinets and stove along the south wall except the antique cupboard to the right. The cupboard was given to Montell when he was 18 years old. It features a simulated wood grain a pioneer artist did. One has to look twice to distinguish the old time cupboard because they blend well. Dominating a share of space is the hardwood counter island. What work to remove the linoleum and layers of glue. The counter came from the family store as do the storage counter and candy case now fashioned into a china closet. Montell had to remodel the candy case to make it usable for home use. He took off the railing and channels and mounted them in front instead of back, replacing the back with a plywood. Kathryn may put her prized, china behind the sliding doors where they are protected, yet visibly ornamental. The old cheese case near the side entrance appears ideal for a music center. A place to store tapes, stereos, records and whatever needed. Near it, stairs lead to the loft where the three girls Karla, Valerie, and Fawn will have their bedrooms until dad can make room in the basement. A lowered ceiling over the kitchen and parlor permit space for the loft, but the family room is cathedral style. A vaulted ceiling features exposed beams. Plans are to have a wagon wheel chandelier in the family room. The main floor offers 2200 square feet, plenty of triple paned windows and a gas furnace. A gas furnace is also necessary to heat the basement; except for the dugout. The dugout comprises two thirds of the total area. It has concrete ceiling, walls and floor as protection against fire. If the economy goes completely to pot, and we have to live on meager supplies, we can move into the dugout and get along. We will heat with a coal stove, use light from a kerosene lantern and live pioneer style. says Montell. Once a planting mill functioned on the creek in a nearby field, a waterwheel to generate electricity could be an alternative energy supply. The family has not yet decided how to finish the exterior of the home. That can wait a while, they are just concentrating on beating the stork. Money have grown in relative importance. result Ive been alive, property tax burden. The Foundation study also shows that there has been a definite shifting of capacity away from eastern states to western states. Between 1975 and 1979, the New England States lost four percentage points and the Mideast States declined by eight points in relative tax wealth. At the same from ycta weight out Very much alive. Pumpkin can be container percale, learn experience, Adeline comments. The tightly woven percale was too hard Use as containers, pumpkins autumn push the needle through, so she has to Sunset suggests Magazine. Hollow out pumpkin to use three wool. i , t different ways: fill with water to hold cut It Adeline Starr been branches; temporary shampooed she several times, points at the rugs at her feet. Besides, wool says, Get away dirt, nylon says, come on in dirt and stay. Wool doesnt bum either. The 30 year old rug in front of her fire place has caught a few sparks which smoulder and go out causing hardly any damage. Where does she get the wool in an age of synthetics? Oh, I have a lot of old coats and they can be bought at DI. But shes careful not to buy a coat for the price she could buy a new rug. I have always been interested in making -- something from me, or I couldnt learn that. But Adeline says you can do anything if you want to bad enough. If you keep telling yourself you cant, pretty soon you or as as for a decorative holder for potted plants. plants; sold, but Adeline says, By the time Ive use pot sources, while the eastern states are energy deficient. This is causing some shifting of industry and population from the east to the west. It has also raised the natural resource tax base of the western states. This is' the especially true in the time, potential tax capacity case of such oil - rich Southwestern States states as Texas, rose by nine per- Oklahoma, Alaska, centage points, and and Wyoming. rss&jrticcd with the "Save With the FcSts November When fewer calories are ingested than the body needs for energy, the body will use stored fat for energy and weight will be lost. When there is a balance between intake and consumption, weight remains the same. A safe weight loss is about two pounds a week. You Know" EVEREADY used. If a person consumes more calories than are utilized, there is a gain in weight of about one pound for each 3,500 excess calories consumed. C00 COSTS ASSOCIATED BOUNTIFUL BONUSES amount of calories in abundant energy of number of calories says. the nations economy. For the most part, the western states have in- Weight she taken Two major factors in this tax wealth shift, these the sales tax and the prices in the west and income tax, but is well the growing imbelow average in its portance of energy in have At least some things to show of points. a As changes, Utah is according to the study, somewhat above are the rising real average in its use of estate and home Weight control in-- o I have volves balancing the the 11) the Far West States tax increased by six (Continued from Page unemployment something to do. has an just remembering displays from used She points at the various colors and patterns in a rug tatting, the Tweed is best, she notes. I always figured if you have an old coat, you use the big pieces for an afghan and whats left over for rugs to walk on. You can use even the smallest scraps and they dont have to be sewed into long strips she explains. She sometimes dyes the fabric to suit her taste. The fabric is cut in three - fourth inch bias strips then threaded on the needle in folds through the center of the strip. Carpet warp is then stitched through each fold to make a strip of tightly folded fabric which is worked into an oval rug with raw edges facing top and bottom. If the top of the rug is a little uneven, Adeline just clips it to a smooth surface. She bevels the edge and adds fringe to keep them from becoming stumbling blocks. However, the warp is protected by about three - eighths inch fabric on top and bottom. sell it. The maxim, you is can do anything to mind over brought and. over as Adeline You know, you since part of me I couldnt rug. become her own. Ive decided if I want to do something Ill keep at it until I learn, she says. She made her first rug from finished one its such a it doesnt which coat was used most rejected it, take very long at all. where and who had could The be worn it before it its rugs saying beyond became a part of the like woman replied. Adeline did learn. She has made many and rugs philosophy 1981 11 A Of) BATTERIES nH aWW CiAOtApaa ittva ALPHA Hog KLEENEX I AmotMJ Wtv KERI C!Ort AScanM 3.19 SELSUN BLUE AuoflM EormUM AWN Polaroid 2.59 TIME ONE Pa ZERO STEP 33 99 Fm MURINE & MURINE PLUS POLAROID rottdanato, FILM & 13.19 cant. She finds it hard to teach people in large groups, but those who really want to make the rugs usually come to her individually to learn. The craft is gradually becoming a lost art. because seldom modern Largely rugs used are on carpeted floors. Also, the carpet warp is hard to find and Adeline knows only one source for the hump - back needle, a store in Provo. These are mostly heirlooms, she says, noting little practical need for the rugs at her feet. She has nothing. Anyone can go to the store and buy a kit, but anytime you can take something and say this has thought she might possibilities, you have make small ones for each of her grand- done something. 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