Riddle me this: who doesn't like our first president? Basically nobody except people who are prejudiced because they were named after him and have had to live in his shadow all of their life. I feel bad for those people, but as my name is Jessica and not George I do not fall into this category. Instead I am in the category of people who enjoy that man very much. I mean, I guess he did some pretty important stuff or whatever. I particularly enjoyed the stop we made on our trip at Mount Vernon. There is something great about the green-ness of his home and how it is far enough outside of the city to make it a well-connected paradise (meaning that I can hit up an H&M and then horseback ride in my new clothes across my extensive holdings). I wish every day that when I grow up I will be able to have the kind of home that George Washington did, bright green walls and everything.
I can remember visiting Mount Vernon once before and loving it. I used to live in North Carolina when I was a young chap (what is the feminine version of chap?) and once (twice? three times? sixteen times? never?) we visited the DC area and, obviously, stopped by Mount Vernon. This stop is one of the only ones I remember from that childhood trip(s). I distinctly remember walking through an open walkway from one part of the house to another and thinking it was the coolest thing, and that I wanted it in my house. When I re-walked through it this time around I (being wiser) thought, this is the coolest thing and I want it in my house. Can you believe that I am still the same person that I was sixteen(?) twelve(?) three(?) years ago? It is always so interesting to me what things I remember from my little kid days and what things I have no memory of. The only other place I remember seeing on that trip(s) was Ford Theatre where Abe Lincoln was shot and the chair in the apartment across the street. Clearly I had/have a thing for important presidents and places important to their life stories.
In summary, conclusion and wrapping up, I would just like to proclaim that one day I will live in a house similar to Mount Vernon. It will have an open walkway, a riverside view and bright walls. However it will only be a hundred years old as I have a secret fear of termite damage in those three hundred year old houses. Plus, I am not planning on having a threshing barn, no matter how hard the tour tried to impress the greatness of it upon me. I just don't have any use for that sort of an invention and would rather just stick to the open walkway.
2 comments:
I like you. And we have a lot of the same favorite places. Can I have a house with a long porch next to your house with the open walkway? We can sit on each others porches and walkways in rockers in our old age and talk about how great it is that your dream was fulfilled.
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