People were always asking questions, wondering what is he up
to now? In my usual struggle to market the amazing talent of
this man I came across the HGTV web site. There was a place
on the site that said, “be on TV, click here”. The current casting
calls were for a few different shows, one of which was “What’s
With That House?”. The caption asked “do cars slow down and
stop in front of your house? Do heads turn? Are your neighbors
asking ‘what’s with that house’?” I had to answer yes to all of
those questions, we were the perfect candidate for that show. I
sent and email describing our house and what Harry had done
The forest had to go, Harry said it was too depressing so he to it. The next day I received a call, could I send pictures? Sure,
painted a mural on canvas, another N.C. Wyeth, Last of the Mo- I sent a few pictures via e-mail of the inside and outside. Again
hicans. The mural was easily attached to the wall with staples, I received a call, the voice on the other end said “I have good
we didn’t have to destroy the forest and being on canvas we news and I have bad news, the good news is they want to do the
could take this mural with us should we decide to move. It could show on your house, the bad news is they want to be there in
also be displayed at other places as the need arise. So now, three days.” Three days? We have two dogs and two cats and
instead of a dark cool forest making the small room smaller we Harry, there was so much to be done to be ready for a cam-
had three very serious dudes canoeing down the river in our era crew in three days, but it was an opportunity to give Harry
living room. some great publicity, we had to do it. We worked day and night,
I cleaned and Harry doing touch ups. Dogs’ claws make a mess
of a painted floor and hot water and soap certainly don’t do a
painted bathtub any favors. We did it though, the crew showed
up three days after that phone call at 8am. I’d had some sleep
but Harry had worked through the night finishing the touch ups.
For the last three days I had been worrying about being on TV.
Harry had been telling me the entire time, “don’t worry, just be
yourself”. Now that the crew was here, guess who was hav-
ing a problem being himself? They ended up being a really nice
group of regular people, the field producer, the camera man,
the sound man and the producer’s assistant. After the first few
minutes the jitters went away, the crew helped us relax and
The inside was complete, so now what? The outside, of course!
we had a fun day. Eight hours of filming ended up being a sev-
Harry has a passion for rocks. He goes rock hunting as often
en minute segment on the TV show. The show has aired four
a possible and has brought home a few tons, a couple hundred
times since we filmed in November of 2006. Every time it airs
pounds at a time. He started out side with his rocks; arrang-
our web site gets more attention, we get e-mails and Harry has
ing them and even giving some of his favorite rocks personality
actually had a few wall mural jobs from it. Although it can still be
by adding eyes. The rocks became the sentinels but the house
a struggle to find continuous work, the folks at LMNO produc-
was just a plain white-sided house not worthy of sentinels, so
tions and HGTV gave us invaluable advertising and helped us
the front of the house became Harry’s next project. Starting at
reach a market we may have otherwise not reached.
about 3pm on a Friday afternoon Harry set up his scaffolds and
Whether it’s inside or outside, automotive or canvas, wood or
started his prep, removing things from the siding and cleaning.
stone, Harry can turn whatever it is into whatever you want.
He started painting Saturday, after working through the night
He even etches glass and adds color with his airbrush. Trans-
on his prep. The transformation was complete around 3am
formations are his specialty. See more from Hairydidit at www.
Sunday morning. Floodlights and good weather helped.
hairydidit.com.
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