>>I put in the mahogany ....to avoid maintenance for the next forty 
years.<<

Tableau:
The forlorn tradesman is on his knee holding a stick of wood that is 
half sound and half rotten, as the Sun beats down on his brow, the 
tradesman is sweating blood and worried sick. The boss, semi-god 
Imhotep, stands tall above the tradesman, raises his hand to shade the 
Sun from the tradesman's brow, and is about to speak...

Imhotep entones, "No magic in word mahogany."

End of Day Stories:
There may be wood called "mahogany" that is more durable than other 
woods, but in the last two years I have seen four cases of mahogany used 
for porch parts in the 1970s and 80s, that has rotted out. In two of the 
cases I put the wood in there myself. In all cases the mahogany was 
sopping wet. There were other pieces of the same mahogany that were dry 
and sound. The wet rotten wood was in the shade, the dry sound wood was 
in the sun.

Moral of Stories:
The old rule does still apply: Keep it Dry.

Analysis:
  Keep:  keep on keeping on (with the ongoing maintenance).
  Dry:  as in "not wet."

Extremes of the situation:
Leeke didn't keep his wood dry and it lasted 33 years.
Tut kept his wood dry and it lasted 3300 years.

New Rule (with incentive):
Keep it Dry, get 100 times the durability.

Chain of Authority:
Aton > Tut > Imhotep > Leeke

Dreams in the Night:
Tradesman wakes before dawn...cuts down the tree that shades the 
porch...Sun rises and warms the tradesman as he makes porch parts from 
the tree...but the Sun glints in his eye blinding him as struggles to 
fit the part into porch...a tall stranger comes by to watch his work and 
stands so his shoulders shade the sun from his eye...the part fits 
perfectly...the stranger becomes a friend...the friend offers the 
tradesman a lucrative project on the other side of town.

Reality:
Wife speaks, "Get out there and fix that porch, or you'll be sleeping on 
it!"

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