Monday, July 13, 2009

many plantation models available

After the dimensional shift program had run its course, the starliner slid into everyday spacetime, and coasted into orbit around New South.  After the tremendous success they had with New California, Planets-R-Us grabbed up the next earth-analog planet the government put on auction.....they had plenty of bucks in the revenue stream right then.  We were parked a little behind the main spacestation, and you could get a flitter over there as needed....So I put on a typical tourist rig, and got in line at the spacestation for the shuttle down to the planet surface.  Dropping through the sky, you could see great swaths of green forest, myriad blue sparkling lakes, miles of ocean beach....lots of fluffy white clouds...all very nice.  The hotel was cool, all in that "antebellum" style, is that what they call it?  Maybe there's some other more proper name for all the white columns and balconies with wrought-iron work, etc....but all the websites kept saying everything had "authentic antebellum charm".....So you sit around on verandas and drink whiskey with sprigs of mint?  Well, you could get any drink you fancy, of course.....because you are "in the bosum of Southern Hospitality".....so everything is just hunky-dory, by definition.  Just on a lark, I let some real-estate lady talk me into going to look at a place.....we took her classy drop-top flitter out away from the city, into the seemingly endless landscape of Plantation Living.  We dropped down onto a perfect lawn in front of a huge white three story place, in the classic antebellum style.....there were the apparently requisite outbuildings....I still have no idea why they do that....a barn?  Outdoor kitchen?  "Tenant Quarters".....what the hey is that?  Anyway, the model plantation mansion was a real trip inside, with all the fancy carpets and old dark furniture out of some museum, and ceiling fans?  The place had tennis courts, and a special lawn for croquet....I was impressed.  The lady really gave me her best sell, but I don't really think I'd like to live like that....not unless there was a large family thrown in with the deal to fill up all those rooms.....that one developer had 37 different models of plantations......


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