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Horse Rescued from Basement

Miss Cellania — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:29:51 +0000

A family in Elbert County, Colorado awoke to find their horse Summer trapped in the home’s basement.

Summer had fallen down a four-foot window well and landed in the basement, which was not constructed with a walk-out door.

“We thought of bringing her up the basement stairs,” Heap said. “But the stairs didn’t look safe enough to support her weight.”

A veterinarian sedated Summer, who sustained minor cuts and injuries in the fall, and a coring company was contacted to cut into the foundation of the home. The initial plan was to expose an area around a second window well, remove a portion of the foundation and create enough space to bring the horse out of the basement, Heap said.

When the crew had removed enough material around the window, Summer walked out on her own. Link -via Arbroath

(Image credit: Elbert County Sheriff’s Office)

Barbra Streisand Has Basement Shopping Mall for Storage

Alex — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 18:58:10 +0000

If you’re lucky, you’ve probably got a nice walk in closet to store your stuff. Well, Barbra Streisand got one better:

"Instead of just storing my things in the basement, I can make a street of shops and display them," Streisand says.

See the photo gallery over at Harper’s Bazaar: Link (Photo: "My Passion for Design"/Viking) – via News of the Weird

Your Basement Chemistry Lab

Miss Cellania — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:42:36 +0000

Just the other day, I thought about how neato my basement would look with a laboratory set up like Dr. Frankenstein, with beakers and burners and electrical gadgets. Now Wired has a how-to video on just that!

They don’t make chemistry sets like they used to — no more uranium or explosives. What’s an aspiring mad scientist to do? Go DIY. In your own smoking, bubbling lair, you can make everything from bouncy balls to rocket motors. Here’s a catalyst to get you started.

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This Guy Should Do an Ad for Sharpie

Stacy — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:50:42 +0000

I can tell you that if I tried to decorate our basement in Sharpie, it would look nothing like this. Then again, I’m not so artistically inclined. The link has video of the entire room, which better shows just how extensive the drawings are. There are lots of little touches, such as a trash can that has been doodled on to look like R2D2 and various literary figures sprinkled throughout the room.

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