We always needed a place to land the piano.

This would have been the canning cellar or possibly liquor cellar.

That's when they get the wood when it is just about to go rotten, and it makes that nice gray color.

I think it adds character.

I'd love to travel to the Holy Land.

A large whale was taken betwixt my land abutting on the Thames and Greenwich, which drew an infinite concourse to see it, by water, horse, coach, and on foot, from London, and all parts. ... It would have destroyed all the boats, but ... after a long conflict, it was killed with a harping iron, struck in the head, out of which spouted blood and water.