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ANNOUNCEMENT and EXPLANATION

A Turning Point for Papa Ted's Place

I know that you - my loyal friends - have been wondering whatever happened to "Papa Ted's Place?" I am still here, though it would not appear so. It has been a confluence of heavy-handed things.

I had a tough time finishing 2010. Houses of the Month just stopped coming in. It was becoming ever more evident that just about everything truly significant about the little houses had been said. Oh, yes - little points of minutia will turn up here and there for years to come, but the main story has been told. This charming era has been set down for those who care .. and even some who will come to care. People always have and always will have fascination for miniaturized emulations of the world. This is how they did it in the first half of the 20th Century. But i just basically ran out of stuff to say.

Then Eternity called my number. Earlier this year a diagnosis of Non Small Cell Lung cancer, stage IV. Since then, that battle has become a full-time job. There is real hope, but it keeps me busier than I have ever been - with tasks i have never hated more.

I can't really get excited about material things anymore. Nothing in this life is really ours at all. But i still have a goodly stock of doors and windows for those who need them. I will try to post any amazing photos of Christmases past that come in. Exceptional putzes, Letters from Folks and things like that.

And, actually, I am looking for ethical, responsible people to help me dispose of my collections of vintage toy trains and Christmas lights and Christmas houses. Ornaments. I am here all alone and none of my family cares at all about such things. I need help.

And I need your prayers. Hope has come up for me in the form of a new clinical gene-targeted vaccine that shows great promise, but there are insurances and bureaucrats to fight. It's very expensive. So prayers by all means! I am a believer in that. Keep them coming!

Love to you all,
-Ted