My memory was of some of you who went to her home at one time. I think this thread is ready to move down to oblivion.

Just by accident I happened to come across this very show-----I was thinking she should have kept all three dogs also !!!

Can you imagine living in a place like that ! It looks like she made a compound out of two or three homes--

I would love to live like that----

Florence

There's an opulent horse barn near us.
How's that for an intro?

A quarterback who played for the Redskins (now D-NC, but this was built with 'skins money when he lived just down the road here) built a horse barn that's 16,000 sq.ft. under one roof. Five tall lighted flag poles stand out front.
We first heard about it being finished so nice on the inside from Crossville Ceramics when I was there buying seconds tiles for my kitchen. They knew where Blaine was because they had just shipped 16,000 tiles (firsts) to a horse barn there (and when I guessed the street address they laughed.)
When he started selling off parts of that farm as a subdivision, the real estate agents' offices were in some stalls. We visited the stalls/offices and the wood was all smoothly finished/polyurethaned/ with quality hardware (no wood slides) to keep the horses in.
I doubt that the horses appreciated their homes. All that finish to nibble through before they could munch on wood.

The problem with that kind of set up is maintenance. More money was put into fencing than we paid for our farm. But we've watched the fences deteriorate and need repairs. And the repairs are hard to keep up with.

It's not the initial cost: it's the maintenance. (And taxes and insurance. And staff.)