From The Firewood Pile To The Louvre

Well, maybe not the Louvre -- yet -- but you can find this bright red fire hydrant made from a log at Gary Kott’s Creative Warehouse -- I’m looking at it right now -- it’s perched atop a cabinet next to my desk in my office -- little does the log know that a few years ago it was this close to being tossed into the fireplace along with its blazing wood mates -- there was something about this log’s shape -- short -- squat -- hmm -- maybe if I added a popcorn bowl to the top --  vent caps to the sides and front -- a chain and wood blocks -- several coats of apple red spray paint -- voila -- a fire hydrant -- just what that drab cabinet in my office needed -- until the phone rings one day and it’s the Louvre calling…