“There I was, a-digging this hole,
A hole in the ground, so big and sort of round it was.
There was I, digging it deep,
It was flat at at the bottom and the sides were steep.”
When the boys were much younger, they and their friends asked me to tell them a spooky story. So I made one up about how our house doesn’t have a basement… EXCEPT the pantry under the stairs would sometimes turn into stairs that led to a spooky, cursed basement, from which things could come up and into our house. Or, if you went down the stairs and were in the basement when the stairs disappeared, you’d be forgotten and become part of the basement’s “collection.”
The boys are all college age and older and they still tell me that’s the creepiest story they’ve heard. So… no basement. 😀
I love basement living. Its cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter. The house I am building has three levels and right now the basement level is the most comfortable even without a furnace. Many have forgotten that the old three story farm houses were built to use natural heating. One just adjusts to the level most pleasant.
My atelier is on the bottom floor of the 3 floor condo we have… and it is very comfortable in the summer… especially since the Global warming kicked in. Today the high 100 degrees. WAY above normal in Portland.
“There I was, a-digging this hole,
A hole in the ground, so big and sort of round it was.
There was I, digging it deep,
It was flat at at the bottom and the sides were steep.”
Dig that basement … or… er…. final resting place?
I’ve done the basement thing. It’s not bad in the summer around here, but the winters can get pretty rough if the basement isn’t well insulated!
Yah… the bottom floor of our row house condo is the coolest area in the house… both in summer and in winter. I don’t mind the former so much.
We positively forbade any of our sons to live in the basement.
We don’t have a basement. 😀
If you tell them they can, they might dig you one!
wah-wah… but as Trev said… you could GET yourself one if…
Good thoughts, but no.
When the boys were much younger, they and their friends asked me to tell them a spooky story. So I made one up about how our house doesn’t have a basement… EXCEPT the pantry under the stairs would sometimes turn into stairs that led to a spooky, cursed basement, from which things could come up and into our house. Or, if you went down the stairs and were in the basement when the stairs disappeared, you’d be forgotten and become part of the basement’s “collection.”
The boys are all college age and older and they still tell me that’s the creepiest story they’ve heard. So… no basement. 😀
That’s HILARIOUS!
I love basement living. Its cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter. The house I am building has three levels and right now the basement level is the most comfortable even without a furnace. Many have forgotten that the old three story farm houses were built to use natural heating. One just adjusts to the level most pleasant.
My atelier is on the bottom floor of the 3 floor condo we have… and it is very comfortable in the summer… especially since the Global warming kicked in. Today the high 100 degrees. WAY above normal in Portland.