The GNC Project

Time for definitions here I think.

You might think that GNC is General Nutrition Company and you see them in every Mall between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, but you’d be wrong!

The GNC project really stands for the “Great Northern Casita”

Now you’re asking what is a Casita?

Webster's Dictionary tells us that a casita is:

ca⋅si⋅ta

/kəˈsitə; Sp. kɑˈsitɑ/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [kuh-see-tuh; Sp. kah-see-tah] Show IPA

–noun, plural -tas /-təz; Sp. -tɑs/ Show Spelled

1.
a small crude dwelling forming part of a shantytown inhabited by Mexican laborers in the southwestern U.S.

2.
a luxurious bungalow serving as private guest accommodations at a resort hotel, esp. in the southwestern U.S. or Mexico.

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Origin:
1920–25; < AmerSp, Sp, equiv. to cas(a) house, home (< L) + -ita dim. suffix

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If you look up images of casitas in Google you’ll come up with:

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If you had a nice motor home, and beautiful spot to park it on in the summer time, that was much like a private campground, with full hookups, a garage, storage, private dock, boat, and boatlift, that would be real living wouldn’t it? So far the only thing missing from this dream would be a Casita with a pool, a bar and a relaxing deck to enjoy the summer month on overlooking the lake.

A vision of that missing casita might be something like this:

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Funny how this vision seriously resembles the shed we have at out lake place!

But our shed has a deck that is badly in need of repair, and there is certainly no porch over our deck or an enclosed hot tub on one side of our shed.