[Magdalen] Rent.

[Scott Knitter]

I admit it took me more than one annual visit to our Benedictine
community's abbey (a large home in Houston, with a two-story "great
room" that has been fitted out as the oratory) before I realized there
is no basement. :)

I guess I visualized and assumed a basement was there but eventually
decided I had never figured out where the door to the stairs was and
had never heard of anyone going down there. It's a different climate
and geological/geographical category there, from here between a Great
Lake and the midwestern prairies.

On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 2:27 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com> wrote:
> All the homes I've lived in in Detroit suburbs and in Syracuse had carpeted hardwood throughout. The kitchen floors were also hardwood covered with linoleum. It wasn't until into the 70s that it started changing to plywood. Down here in southern TX most homes constructed since 60s are on a cement slab first floor and plywood upstairs.




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Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA