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Yay, Houston! Where in town are you?

I've been eyeing that chandelier for months! It looks even better in person.

Pre-made hummus and pre-chopped onions for sure. Oh, and carrot chips. I have TMJ, so I'm not supposed to eat whole or even baby carrots-- they're too thick and strain my jaw too much. But carrot chips are the perfect thickness, and great for scooping out the aforementioned pre-made hummus.

Any of the PBS "House" series (Manor House, Frontier House, etc.), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Bringing up Baby, or Rear Window.

Is anyone else having trouble with the link to the catalog? I keep getting a 404.

House of Pies in Houston serves their hot chocolate in little individual kettles. You pour it into your own mug, which comes ALREADY FILLED with whipped cream. It's not Paris by any means, but at 3 in the morning, it's pretty damn fantastic.

Pearland (suburb of Houston, TX), about 20 min. from downtown.

Just under 700 sq. ft. 1 bedroom apartment, nice complex, vaulted ceilings, built ins and washer/dryer- $730/mo. (rented)

Just under 1000 sq. ft. 2 bedroom postwar bungalow, big kitchen, huge yard, in very nice shape at time of purchase- $950/mo. (30 yr. fixed mortgage)

Wha?

Yeah, me too.

OH MY GOSH, we have EXACTLY the same chair, only ours is teal!!

It was made by Kroehler, a furniture company based out of the Chicago area. Here's a cut-and-paste from the encyclopedia of Chicago history:

"In 1902, Peter E. Kroehler bought the Naper ville Lounge Co., a maker of wooden lounge chairs and upholstered furniture. Kroehler built a new factory in Naperville in 1913 after the original facility was destroyed by a tornado. Soon thereafter, he renamed the company Kroehler Manufacturing Co. This enterprise soon operated across the country and employed several hundred men and women in the Chicago area. By the middle of the 1940s, with over $20 million in annual sales, Kroehler was the second-largest furniture maker in the United States. During the 1960s, when the company employed close to 8,000 people around the country, annual revenues passed $100 million. The company struggled during the 1970s, closing its historic Naperville factory in 1978 and ending its operations in the area. In 1981 Kroehler was acquired by the ATR Group of Northbrook, which put the com- pany up for sale. By the early 2000s, furniture was still manufactured under the Kroehler name by two unrelated companies, one in North Carolina and the other in Ontario, Canada."

I have no idea if Kroehler furniture is particularly valuable...

Our chair came from my grandmother, who apparently purchased it from a catalog with stamps she got from buying groceries (I think she calls them "green stamps"?).