A Dream Home March 25, 2008
Posted by carpebanana in : Ramblings , trackbackMiss Language has an online Friend she has never visited IRL. However, I bopped over to their place in the wee hours of the night for a slice of Friend’s Mom’s famous Waldorf Astoria Chocolate Cake and was surprised to see the layout of their house.
When you walk from the kitchen into the garage and den area, you pass over a footbridge. This spans a moat about 25 feet wide. This is all inside the house itself. So, as I say, it was surprising, but not as surprising as when I realized the moat was actually filled with alligators or maybe crocodiles (I am always fuzzy on the difference and never thrilled to see either in someone’s home).
Problem was, the sides of the moat were not terribly steep, so I asked if the alligators/crocodiles could not in fact climb right out into the kitchen. “No,” Friend’s Dad assured me, “That has never happened. Though once during the war a tank did drive up into the kitchen from the moat because a bolt had gone and he was hoping I’d have a replacement part for him.”
Sure wish I could download the picture from my head for you. *Mental note to self: see if you can talk Devastatingly Handsome into Photoshop or something like that.* But since I can’t post it, just picture kind of a medieval Fallingwater.
The downside of being so shocked is that I don’t even remember eating the cake. And I did not find out if Friend’s Dad had the right bolt or not.
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Wow! What did you eat for dinner last night ?!