Poles reconstructed houses of the first Egyptians

PAP -- Science and Scholarship in Poland ^ | Wednesday, February 4, 2015 | J. Karmowski

[Jamestown1630]

Maybe the open door and windows were a kind of air-conditioning.

JT

[Popman]

When I read the title in the header, I thought it was talking about “poles” and the not “Polish”...

[bgill]

Some people put Christmas lights in them for the holidays.

Much longer trend than just lately. I remember seeing them since I was little and I’m not admitting how long that’s been. My grandfather started one but didn’t drink so dumped that idea. However, he had all sorts of whirly gigs made out of plastic jugs and other homemade yard art.

[Jamestown1630]

I like yards full of gee-gaws.

I think the important color for bottle trees was blue glass - blue was considered very good luck, and many of the slaves and later African Americans painted the doors to their houses blue.

There’s a whole thread on the GardenWeb forum, on how to find blue bottles:

http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/load/junk/msg0112175112905.html

I just like the sun shining through them, and the sound they possibly make when the wind blows. In a previous apartment, I kept an empty wine bottle in front of the kitchen window, and it would wail when the wind was just right. (A free ‘Aeolian Harp’ ;-)

-JT

[Forward the Light Brigade]

Even the Pharaohs lived in Adobe houses—Palaces yes, but still mud brick-—Stone was reserved for tombs and temples. They were not slaves in our sense of the word—Labor was sort of like a tax done for a set time—and they got perks for their efforts—Like Meat every day! All the beer you could drink, and a pizza like flat breat with cheese and onions. Workers got free health care and the real kicker-—one always good-—Eternal life in the life-to-come.

[SunkenCiv]

Same here!

[colorado tanker]

Pretty nice digs for 5,000 years ago.