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Topic: How many bedrooms on Emma's farm? Fridges? Bathrooms? Sheets?

Topic Posted by: walter curtin
Date Posted: Sat Nov 14 15:55:53 2009
Additional Comments: Emma is there presumably in a master bedroom. Jack and Janet have a room. Liberty. Meg and the baby. Now Holden is returning, and his kids--three--will stay there. Who pays for all that? Where is the food? SO funny. It's like a hotel with one room.
Holden has money. He should buy his own horse farm. But of course, most people in Oakdale have no homes thanks to Procter and Gamble's cheapness. LOL at Margo teleporting back and forth to Philly, all the other teleporting to Greenville SC. Teleporting is eating up the P&G budget!

Posted by: dolphina
Date posted: Sun Nov 15 23:54:40 2009
Message:
I always imagine the farmhouse to be shaped like an inverted pyramid. Kitchen and parlor on the ground floor, 15 or 20 bedrooms upstairs. One bathroom, of course. There must never be a moment that it's unoccupied.

Only once did they ever allude to Emma having a full house - when Noah had to sleep on the couch in the parlor because Emma wouldn't permit him to share Luke's room.

Posted by: Gracie
Date posted: Sun Nov 15 20:49:46 2009
Message:
Perhaps Emma's moved into the Lakeview for some peace and quiet.

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Oh, that would be great if she moved into the Lakeview./mm

Posted by: daydreamer
Date posted: Sun Nov 15 19:06:52 2009
Message:

Every single one of Emma's kids,extended family, boyfriends & fiances have offered to give her a new kitchen appliance over the years. When Holden took that money from Emily in exchange for marrying her,he wanted to get her a new stove. Lily offered,Julie,John Dixon,Cal,Angel and Rosanna. They all did! I was so sick of that broken down kitchen and Emma crying the hot water heater or something else was broken!! It used to drive me nuts!

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Emma also became a successful writer and could have redecorated the kitchen herself. That fridge looks like the first one eve made! (lol)

I actually remember at one point, someone, John Dixon, maybe? actually did buy Emma a new fridge, I think it was a side-by-side model. Then they didn't show Emma's house for a while, but when they finally did so again, she was back to the old one that looked like it came out of Lucy and Ricky's kitchen! eom

Posted by: Wayne Addison
Date posted: Sun Nov 15 15:42:56 2009
Message:

In the 50s, they'd drop a stage canvas, paint some white lines on it, tack a curtain around the lines, and that was supposed to be a window.

Posted by: Katnim
Date posted: Sun Nov 15 14:38:43 2009
Message:
I wonder who does all the laundry for this brood. It can't be that old washing machine that used to sit out on the porch.

Posted by: Soup
Date posted: Sun Nov 15 11:38:39 2009
Message:
It should have a hospital bed for women who give birth in the Snyder kitchen! I assume they would replace the kitchen table often. LOL

Posted by: dmnted
Date posted: Sat Nov 14 22:33:06 2009
Message:
everytime I see Emma's kitchen, I always think, why don't those moochers chip in and buy her a large refrigerator and enclose that darn hot water heater.

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Too funny and oh so true. I was wondering why Emma's refrigerator was so small, and dated, considering she has an entire army living there.

I don't know how long you've been watching, but there was an actual storyline about one of Emma's suitors trying to buy her a new modern refrigerator. Bottom line, she refused it. Of course, that had to have been at least 15 years ago, so she might be willing to take one now!! eom/happy

I think I vaguely remember a poster talking about this on the boards as I know I didn't see the actual scene, but for some reason I'm kind of familiar with what you're saying. Somebody in that house should offer to buy her a fridge again since Emma might have changed her mind.

In fact Emma did accept that fridge from Jared Carpenter it was the dishwasher she refused from Cal.

In one of the older youtube episodes I watched, there stood a beautiful side-by-side refrigerator in Emma's kitchen. I'll remind myself to keep track of the episode when I spot it again, and post the url here for all to see. /mia

It's funny how so many of us are interested in Emma's appliances.

Posted by: Rosebud1
Date posted: Sat Nov 14 21:58:02 2009
Message:
Remember, Emma & her husband raised half a dozen of their own kids, plus various stray relatives over the yrs. The house, like many country farm houses, has lots of bedrooms to accomodate them.

As far as food goes, like lots of farm families, the Snyders raised a lot of their own food on the farm--everything from fruits and vegetables to meat, eggs & poultry. We used to see evidence of Emma's canning from time to time, on the shelves of her pantry. The only unrealistic part of that was that it was in the heated part of the house, while IRL, those items would be in a cool, dark place in the house--like an unheated back room (which my grandmother had).

Lots of my relatives were farm families & they always had a full root cellar, lots of home canned goods, home grown honey, homemade breads, rolls, etc. Most had freezers that they kept full of items made in season & frozen for later use--including meat, fish & poultry (some raised on the farm, some from hunting or fishing).

There was a time when Emma was believeable as a farmer, but those days have long since gone away.

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Your farm relatives sound really cool..I love homemade food, especially pickles ! **

My Auntie Maude always had a jar of home-made pickled okra on her kitchen counter./mm

Posted by: silver
Date posted: Sat Nov 14 18:11:46 2009
Message:
First off, Walter, an old Illinois farmhouse doesn't have a master bedroom, but this particular farmhouse has lots and lots of bedrooms. I once counted how many people were living at the farm - Emma Holden Jack Sage JJ Parker Meg Brad Noah Luke. The count is fluid. Now it seems that the farmhouse has to accommodate (divided by bedroom): 1) Emma 2)Holden & Ethan 3) Faith & Natalie 4) Jack & Janet 5) Liberty 6) Meg & Eliza. Any strays will have to sleep in the parlor or with Liberty - she's not fussy.

Posted by: Bertha
Date posted: Sat Nov 14 17:49:20 2009
Message:
It would be more reasonable, though, for Holden and Meg to be at their mother's farm--not the rest of Oakdale.

Posted by: Bwoman
Date posted: Sat Nov 14 17:30:39 2009
Message:
Better yet.....how come Holden, Emma and Meg...are never around in the kitchen when Janet, Libby or Jack are there......they never even walk through

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