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Posted on 09/02/2004 2:18:28 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Eleventh Thread: Wedding Edition: The Hobbit Hole XI - No One Admitted Except on Wedding Business!
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Well, golly, girl! *When* you bring the jedis out to do the "tour DC thing" we'll go up to Longwood (put it on your someday list of things to do). The kids' gardens are nifty beyond words.
Hmmmm....we were talking about that at work this morning.
TheNewOldHouse has the washer/dryer hookups in the garage so I want to convert that part of the garage to a laundry room so I won't freeze muh butt off. Then all the "when I was growing up" stories started.
I want a heated laundry room....and a sunroom....and a woodstove...and a patio...
"New" computer finally works...
Doubled processor speed to 1GHz and moved up to a 56K modem. Maybe I'll be able to keep up with pix a little better.
What's new?
My basement isn't really unheated as in totally blocked from the rest of the house...but no heat vents down there, so it gets chilly. Hence my frozen laundry misadventure the day we came to Entmoot. ;-)
When I was growing up...we only had one rather inefficient woodstove (they still heat with wood, but it's a much better stove), and if you left a glass of water anywhere near a window, it'd freeze on the coldest days. And I remember at least once when the toilet froze over. Brrrr...
I appreciate what I gots, for sure!
I just don't do my folding down there. I can handle it otherwise...
Yes, agreed...unfortunately, I have reached the age where I like telling "when I was growing up stories." Just ask my kids (now grown, themselves). I've got a lot of 'em.
A sun room is a cheerful place in a cold climate...'course there's not that many days when the sun shines in those kind of climates, but still.
meant to ping you to #67
Well....maybe I'll get one that's wired so I can put some baseboard heat in there.
Yeah, and a fireplace, like in Rivendall, if there is a chimney.
Think I'll have to put in a chimney...or a stovepipe or something.
Long way of saying we'd have more to fear from some asteroid.
The last homely house...
Considering rereading the thing, now that I'm (only slightly) burned out on watching the movies a million times.
Well, all I have to say is............when does the movie come out!!!!!
Cool... did you ever get that USB card to work?
Well it does shine, it's just not warm! Actually the sun is dimmer in northern climes. Can get downright depressing, sometimes! That's why we're putting so many windows in our new addition. It faces mostly SouthEast, so it's gonna be real bright in the winter!
I think you should have small windows, though, the large ones just aren't safe.
My house faces SE, too, to catch the prevailing breezen, at this latitude.
That's the thing I hate the MOST about winter...NOT the cold, but the dark. I get home from work and the day is over, really. Makes you feel like you never get to really LIVE - go to work in the dark, come home in the dark, and if you don't get out at lunchtime...might as well be living in a cave.
Germany was even worse than here. It was so much warmer that it doesn't seem like it could be farther north, but it sure was dark in the winter!
The Teuton culture is dark, for sure, very dark, I reckon.
And also very pretty, Christmas is a very German thing, I think. Christmas is one of the prettiest things in all life.
Speaking as a 1/4 German.
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