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I don’t know. I’m just getting the ones I like that seem to fit my decor. I’m done shopping for fish and sea creatures now. I think if I get more then my shadowbox aquarium will look too full. I had to get the martians too, because of my sci fi fetish. I just got them today, and they’re pretty cool, but not as little as the other things.
nice bathroom my pod mate at work LOVES lighhouses. What are those aliens supposed to be?? No arms or legs??
I think they’re the aliens from the War of the Worlds book. Not the movies, the directors had some artistic licensing on those. The aliens were supposed to look like this.
Yeah. We researched it for a Century Homes award and got a plaque for the house with the date. The guy who built the house was a bricklayer from Germany. He couldn’t speak English, so his signature on paperwork was all a big X. He and his wife had about 10 daughters, and he built this house for his family between daughters number two and three. He played the violin. He was the prominent bricklayer in the town and built most of the churches and some of the store buildings here too.
We found the old outhouse area out back when we were digging in the garden. There was a lot of lyme and some pottery shards and such. No wonder our veggies do so well in the area — fertilizer!
We also know that where our garage is now was probably where the horse shed was.
We’ve redone the floor in the downstairs bathroom and discovered where the toilet used to be at one time, and where there was a shower stall by the marks in the floor. We also found some old newsprint embossed into the old varnish of some hardwood floors that were covered with carpeting we pulled up. The print was backwards but we could read a date of 1938, and see a shoe from a shoe store ad. That was cool.
We have a cistern in our basement made out of granite block. Sometimes there’s bats that fly around down there, so it’s pretty creepy, but interesting too. I just don’t go down there after dusk anymore… *shivers*. Too creepy.
I can probably think of more too…
Thanks!!! That is so cool!!! But, I never heard of bats in the basement. There must be a cave connected to that cistern 😯
Actually they get in through the wall next to the shower of our main bathroom on the first floor and crawl (or fall) down the wall into the crawl space for the plumbing. They can get into the basement from there. We call it the Bat Cave. 😆 It’s on the other side of the basement from the cistern. Sorry I was unclear about that. It’s hard to describe though. There are so many turns and little rooms. 😕
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