fantastical

fantastical:def., may connote unrestrained extravagance in conception or merely ingenuity of decorative invention.

i would assert that here; the shoe fits.

i stumbled across this article today. the cockamamy 

house first caught my eye and then i read about the man, mr. smith,and the family behind the house and that's what really left an impression. he died from a fall off a high balcony during the perpetual construction. the house still has sculptures he built, left behind, undisturbed.  

he hauled every bit of that wood himself in a horse trailer. those aren't small timbers. 

that brought back a memory of a place in utah with the inspired name, 'hole in the rock'.  i was moving a friend

to seattle from texas and we were in no hurry to get there.

we stopped and took the two dollar tour.  a man named albert

spent 12 years dynamiting a 14 room home into the rock.

like mr. smith, he died during and from the everlasting 

building of his home. it was a couple of decades ago, but

i still remember a creepy doll collection and that 

albert was an amateur taxidermist.  there was a stuffed

donkey standing next to me during one of the longer 

recitations from the tour guide.  it's bottom had this 

little oval leather patch over it with a slit.  

maybe that's how they filled it with 'stuffing'?

fire damaged timbers mr. smith gathered and hauled to 

the house site with a horse trailer.

a sculpture left in the house by mr. smith.