On Mon, 04 Apr 2016 08:25:57 -0400, Gary > wrote:
>jmcquown wrote:
>>
>> On 4/3/2016 9:36 AM, Gary wrote:
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> When you say 'venison' do you mean deer meat, or really venison, as in
>> >> wild meat, killed then hanged in the basement for a couple of weeks to
>> >> 'ripen' ? Just curious.
>> >
>> > Venison is always deer meat to me. You hang in the basement for a
>> > couple of weeks to 'ripen'?
>> >
>> > Are you serious?
>> >
>> > Can we say *ROTTEN MEAT*, boys and girls?
>> >
>> Gary, you live in a warm climate. Pretty much on the beach, right? Of
>> course you wouldn't be hanging meat in the basement. Do you even *have*
>> a basement?! :-D
>
>Yeah, I live less than one mile from the ocean as the seagull flys.
>Apartments don't have basements, Jill. heheh
>But I do live over one. This is why I live in a 1st floor apt.,
>yet I'm about 5-6 feet above ground level.
>
>The rare basements in my area are not full ones. Here they go about
>3-4 feet underground then the rest is above ground. Dig any
>lower and you hit the water table. I'm guessing it's the same
>deal in the Dataw area - no full basements.
>
>When growing up though, full basements were very common and standard
>in those areas. All were heated and used as normal living spaces too.
the basement under the house where I grew up was a scary place that
children didn't want to go. It was lit by a light bulb in each room.
You had to be brave to travel to the center of the room and pull the
string to light the bulb. Various rooms wandered off in different
directions. All rooms were rough made and obviously meant for storage
and such. There were the rooms that were coal bins in the winter
(coal came in through the window.) There was the furnace room, eerily
lit by flickering flames only in winter, otherwise totally dark. It
was a very cold place because the outdoor access was cement stairs
covered by a drop down wooden lid. This kind of basement was very
common in older houses in the upper mid-west.
Janet US