Yesterday we went house-hunting in Norton. Our budget being something less than minuscule, let us say that we are at the "lower end" of the housing market. Combined with a certain backwoods quality of Norton, this takes us into some interesting places.
We saw two houses. The first, a little bungalow featured a full closet by the front door that had no handle — it was a walk-in gun closet and the owners didn't want the children wandering in. The master bedroom also featured another gun closet, this one free-standing — a sort of "gun armoire" I suppose. We couldn't tour the yard because of the snarling dogs in the back.
The second house was a split level with a den in the basement. The den walls — indeed the walls throughout the house — were covered with animal heads and rear ends. Our real estate agent led me into dark workshop where there was a workbench with various implements, and corpses of a variety of local fauna in various stages of processing: the head of a deer, half of the rear end of a turkey, some bones. A shaved man in overalls was leaning against the bench. "I like to do taxidermy," he said.
Here are some promotional shots for your viewing pleasure:
Stay tuned — more adventures in house hunting await!
