h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

This is a beautiful little town. Think Mayberry. It would be even more beautiful, in my humble opinion, were it not currently buried under several FEET of snow.

More of which fell this morning - though, thankfully, only about an inch. A light dusting, here.

You know that sense of awed wonder you feel as a child when it snows? This disappears quickly when the sight of snowflakes means one thing: snow shovels in your future.

My greatniece and greatnephew thought the best feature of this house was that we had...wait for it...

A Harry Potter closet. We decided to keep our extra wands and magick books in it.

The worst feature? Upstairs rooms with low ceilings. Elektra can put her hand on them. Our box springs wouldn't go up the stairs... however, the house warms up easily. These people obviously built on the model of Rekjavik: snug and small.

Elektra's convinced they were Scandinavians. Some of the kitchen cupboards are too high, even for her to reach. I see ladders in our future...

So, greetings from the snowy forests of Penn's Woods. I hope the rest of you are all snug.

Sounds like a very nice house.

As far as I remember in the house of Mala's parents even her stepfather can touch the ceiling on the upper floor, and they claim he's a Hobbit.

I loved shoveling snow when I was a kid. Today I think the really difficult thing is getting it off the car. Especially if you are small.

talk about the twilight zoneas I was going downstairs this morning, I was saying to myself - "down in the boondocks" not seeing this thread previously

, Prof!

Yeah, Tav - it's like that.

can't do it with future lottery win numbers though

This thread made me touch the ceiling

Easy enough upstairs, impossible downstairs. I think they knew what they were doing when they built this house in 1898

Hope you get used to your new surroundings, Elektra and Dmitri



PS: Boondocks is a very interesting word, by the way

Is that the same penns wood as the wine? Mmmmm, enjoy your new home!

'Boondocks', apparently derived from the Tagalog 'bundok', adopted into American English during the American occupation of the Phillipines, for 'mountain', or remote hill country.

Taken that last way, I guess its pertinent with respect to the entirety of Appalachia.

to all of you.