Was recently looking at photographs of single narrow row houses in Belgium set off in the middle of fields, built there and like that because of restrictive stipulations tied to land grants to farmers,i.e. “you may build a house with a 8 x 10 meter footprint and no more than two stories.” Very odd.
Today coming past North Elizabeth on the train, looking at fully detached houses whose eaves are within six inches of one another, you have to wonder how that came about. It’s so energy inefficient not to share the common wall, it just cries out at you. Are they detached because of market forces and the deep seated American dream of owning one’s own four walls, or because of regulation? It makes me just want to wade in there with a bunch of fiberglass batting and plug the gaps.
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Who cares about the house when you can let your mouse out of the house, you louse? You grouse about rousing(why doesn't this rhyme?) the neighboors(sic). Long live the dream of the cream!
The squash fruit is classified as a pepo by botanists, which is a special type of berry with a thick outer wall or rind formed from hypanthium tissue fused to the exocarp; the fleshy interior is composed of mesocarp and endocarp. The pepo, derived from an inferior ovary, is characteristic of the Squash Family (Cucurbitaceae).
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