Nah, no one ever does that. Especially not on a simple building like this.

Those stories and characters have been living in my head for the past 30 years or so, changing and evolving and eventually connecting with each other so that it started making sense. And also over the years I've been reading the stories from the Old Testament on and off, as you do... no specific Bible study, just an odd reading... and once you get used to the style of the language and learn a few things about old traditions, you no longer get lost in them and start understanding what the stories are actually telling you. Some of them are tragic, some are funny, some are erotic even (like the Song of Solomon), and of course there are a lot of fantastic visions and dreams. And all of it is there for you, open to interpretation, and once you get used to reading the actual text instead of reading the interpretations and indoctrinations of that text, you start seeing things in it that you never thought possible... not in the Bible! But yes, in the Bible... So that then merged with the fantasy world in my head and sent my characters on a quest of discovery and a fight against the undead, because obviously we had to have the undead. I chose Late Roman period as the backdrop, because let's face it, the Roman Legion was the coolest thing under the Sun... The main character is a Legionnaire, sent on a very special mission to an archipelago on the other side of the Great Ocean, so far away from his native Imperial Mainland that even the Legion does not have a presence there, and so he has to uphold the Imperial Law all on his own. Which can't be easy. He'll have to make friends and alliances, he'll be joining the Order of Ezekiel which stands against the undead, he'll have to learn about the local Faith and customs and have his strict Roman moral values challenged... and besides, he is a Nephilim. So yeah, plenty to talk about.

I am on the second book now. I've done a rough plan for all the stories and events that I currently have in my head - they fill 11 books... But there will be more, these things tend to multiply when I'm sleeping at night. The story is almost writing itself, the characters imposing their will on the events, and I'm only the scribe, more or less... But it's great fun to do.

I didn't treat or stain my wood fence/Torii Gate/or raised garden beds = this past year they all turned colors from their beautiful wood color to gray. It really irks me, I should have stained them = wished I had.

Yeah, but now we're talking about wood completely subjected to the elements; getting rained on plus sunshine. That will definitely turn it grey. The inside of the garage, or shed as you call it, is covered from rain and sun and will not turn grey. That's why the ten-year-old insides of the original walls are still yellow

Well they sure still look gorgeous, that is why I asked if you preserved them. I really wish I had done something with mine, hate the gray.

Nice gate!

There might be a way. If you sand it down a bit you may get the lighter tone back and then of course treat the wood in your preferred way.

This is fascinating!!! When I was midway in the pregnancy with my younger son I (was originally carrying twins) and started to miscarry. The doctor put me on strict bedrest. Well, of course I was praying through it; and picked up the Bible and started reading it from the Old Testament. You are absolutely right, there are (and yes on Song of Solomon; I was surprised by that too = it was almost instructional!) so many aspects of it that are never touched on in Sunday School classes growing up.

Your story line sounds really interesting!

Thanks, mALX! The Bible is certainly not a children's book, and I suppose if it is to be presented to children, it needs softening around the corners, so to speak. The more reason to read it as an adult, corners and all.

My book is not about the Bible as such, but the Faith has a presence in it. And obviously, it is some other fictional Faith, it just happens to be based on similar scriptures, sort of like the Roman gods were very much like the Greek gods even though the two systems evolved independently. I am not even saying we are on Earth... It is some other fictional world that may resemble ours in some ways... convergence is a common phenomenon in the Universe, it appears.