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"Holy crow, this is a Nesbitt’s bottle cap! Do you kno old this is?" Clark exclaiosh, I loved Nesbitt’s!" Caroline chiot so hard to find, but I re it when I was a kid!"
"What’s a Nesbitt’s?" I asked again
"Did you ever have the Honey Lemonade?"
"Oh, it’s a lemonade company? Like Country Time?" I asked
"No! I could never find it!" Caroline replied
The hallas getting very closed in, and I walked over to stand next to the Legless Knight’s legs
"You can order it online," Clark continued
"Must be a California thing, huh?" I asked, but nobody answered
Eventually I was able to pry them away from their bottle cap and the dumbwaiter, which I immediately divested of dolls Because who the hell needed that i inside the walls of an old house? Which is now ingrained in the membrane, so Merry Christs really unraveled e headed downstairs
Clark began telling us that in the original plans for the home there had indeed been space allocated for an actual ballroom But whether due to resources, a lack of interest, or simply because the frontier at that time didn’t host too many balls (Clark’s personal theory), the ballroom was scratched At that time, however, if a family was a member of society, then balls were a part of the social calendar And ballroorand discussion, e of San Francisco and the parties and balls held in the mansions before the Great Earthquake of 1906 and subsequent fire that burned round I listened in with some interest, but mainly picked at the chipped paint on the doorja on Clark stoppedit, and at a certain point it becaame: How many pieces could I chip off before he stoppedto that crap
Which bringsat all about old homes, then you know they’re very compartmentalized Homeowners in 1890 would never have entertained the idea of "open concept" Kitchens would be and should be separate fro roo Even small houses were constructed that way Women cooked, s that didn’t require seat belts or helathered in the dining room, quite reing door between the two rooms created ease of movement, but allowed the mess to be hidden from view