Took My Mom To Bok Tower Gardens - The Singing Florida Landmark / Pinewood Estate Holiday House Tour
A visit to Bok Tower Gardens in Lake Wakes Florida with my mom . Lots of things to see on property including the singing tower , new visitor center and holiday decorations inside the Pinewood Estate .
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welcome everyone out of the whoo here
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tagging along for this adventure is my
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mom Christmas day has come and gone but
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there's still plenty of holiday
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festivities and decorations around
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Central Florida where are we mama bought
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our give her best place here in Florida
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you ever been here before yes I was here
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once three years ago two years ago give
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or take but there are some activities
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taking place currently that we're not
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open when I was here there's a new guest
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center and I believe some Christmas
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season decorations and a house like a
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mansion of some sort so we should check
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that out
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you distracted by the bamboo now hear
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this creaking are you ready all right
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I've IDing you to join me and my mom
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shalyah the olmstead house
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what type of moss is that to hang shamaa
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the limbs up there like Spanish moss
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it's very beautiful you see different
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coloration
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hanging out in the treehouse it's the
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same material country so they just took
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the bamboo similar to what we were
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standing in front of and built this
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little building
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it's new now so twelve times standing in
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the parking lot before you even entered
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the attraction premises
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be patient
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well
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it's time high in wood estates
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celebrating 25 years here at the tower
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gardens and turn it into a sanctuary for
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birds and and people and so this was
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actually about 91 years ago and so he
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was an immigrant that came here from the
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Netherlands when he was six years old
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there is a general layout of the land
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this guide map of ginormous proportions
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current location right here next to the
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visitors center entrance and you can see
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just the expansiveness of this area and
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the main focal point right up here
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the singing tower give or take an eight
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minute
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eight minute walk from where I'm at if
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there's no stops of course there will be
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because there's plenty to see so more
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than a mess
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this facility no this was here on my
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last visit
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in case you were wondering my mom is is
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very active I think I get a lot of my my
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type of energy from her she does not
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stop moving kind of like me
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one man's vision and his gift to the
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American profile Edward W Bach 1863 to
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1930
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scale model even this is
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impressive
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at 1:00 p.m. they're going to set off
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the bells in triumphant fashion we're
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gonna be here to document it an example
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of the tile work which can be seen on
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there the sight of it near the top we're
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here in this display case get a closer
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peek this instrument will be delivering
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the beautiful melodies pictured here is
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one of the first gentlemen who played
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the Carol Lanier
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well the Carolina the carol own ear
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would be the musician that played it's a
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little confusing but I think I got right
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and it's available on vinyl or at least
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used to be how did you pronounce that
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hero law a caramel Caroline so the
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person who plays the instrument is a
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Caroline here how do you pronounce it
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Carolyn here yeah alright a Caroline
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probably saying that totally totally in
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the wrong fashion as a Penant some place
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new ways of the garden you got a little
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rice krispies container some souvenirs
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that is a postcard glass salt and pepper
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shakers in the shape of the tower
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remember when the big thing was cluck in
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this place
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this image from 1929 shows that damage
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to one Baron sculpture the top of the
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scene tower after witness provide a
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lightning strike that hit the ball
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authority comes them
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it's a big pelican lightning-rod I
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thought it was a lightning rod but
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make the wads inside of it and then they
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do that on top of it I guess I'm just
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guessing
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so I'm lightning damage marble so it
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hits that instead of hitting the power
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may be up it might just be the piece
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that got destroyed nonetheless it's up
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desiccate designated in 1993 by the
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National Park Service's can already hear
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some noises up ahead yeah little
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squirrel hi there how you doing well
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okay see you later the shrubbery huge
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these leaves
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you're going into the you're going into
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the wilderness yeah she's trapped oh wow
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there's something like yeah what's down
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in there
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you guys see the fish I can't see him
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but I see the water rustling oh yeah you
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can totally see him now this sign up you
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know they're swimming off faintly in the
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water there was a neighbor by these like
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kind of manmade toads toadstool type
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items yeah that wasn't too bad of a hike
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no I can't see the Sun is the tiles oh
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the Pelican let me get a different angle
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of Sun versus makes it tough to see
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quite a few koi a plethora of koi and
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they're not going hungry then you have
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little little pellets food pellets and
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toss soon so lots a lot of koi
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wonder how you tell adenosine a girl and
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a boy boy Edward Bach to hide within
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sight of this tower on january 9th 1930
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at his request his family placed his
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grave in the lawn in front of the great
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brass door there's the brass door and
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there's his final resting place
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very interesting around the entire
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circumference of the tower is this moat
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you cannot cross it at least by this
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bridge this gate is locked
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very heavy if I even stop moving for you
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know a minute at the most it's kind of a
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hide-and-seek game with my mother can
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you see her just adventures on her own
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there she is way over there given the
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perfect the perfect photo or maybe a
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selfie to be taking a selfie and just
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below the cloud line that's a better
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perspective of those little Pelican
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looking engravings up there she did have
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the right idea however this is probably
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the best angle from this distance about
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30 yards 30 yards from it you see the
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whole thing in one shot very peaceful
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out here
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plenty of people meandering around just
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waiting patiently for the bells to toll
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well guess the organ to play is it an
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organ that thing did I know I've already
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forgotten the night Vale just a door I'm
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noticing that door on the second level
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up there too oh yeah top see about 25
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feet up you can faintly see if there's a
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door and a ledge in my imagination I'm
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picturing Quasimodo coming out of that
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door I don't think that's gonna happen
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that no here's a look from the opposite
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view on top of a hill looking downward
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not a lot of elevation in this neck of
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the woods but this is a little elevated
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and kind of see for a few miles
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you're probably right mom
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was dedicated and presented for
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vegetation the you were saying normally
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it's not pre-recorded but today it is
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for the holidays well today our guests
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cure the resident Carol inure is not in
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the country right now
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Carol and nor we were trying to figure
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out how to pronounce that and it's a
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half hour chef okay could I get one of
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those sure and this this was a this was
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recorded on the bells is a live concert
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when it was recorded and so it is
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recording that was played on this
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Caroline Oh excellent never years back
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okay here are the pieces right here all
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right Thank You Simon facts about the
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tower right okay okay I appreciate the
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info thank you thank you so much for
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having me on YouTube has begun and
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faintly hear them
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very beautiful amazing how it just looms
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over the very tall trees the thing is
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high
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cumulonimbus moving by of it
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yeah you know what those are they're
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called B hi ginger
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it's a real beehive of activity I
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started to write it's not downpouring
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but certainly very prominent and this is
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a kiss is a good angle perspective of
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the tower as well from this distance
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next up Pinewood a state through this
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archway that is properly adorned and
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even from way over here you just so
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faintly hear the music almost just as
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loud as it was when we're standing
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underneath it it's just kind of an
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interesting phenomenon it echoes
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not to be confused
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okay
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just about every day at least one of
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their names was called a screw pine
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because it looks like yeah it kind of
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twists around almost like I think he
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built his home in 1932 32 and it was
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1978 about our purchase of property and
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we maintained several events this is our
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25th year of never made every year is
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totally different than the year before
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beauty of nature surrounds us so you
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will see a lot of nature brought into
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the house whole company is a huge is
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Citrus County if we brought our citrus
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into the house
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butler's pantry it was a precursor to
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making stainless steel it didn't take
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off because it is patented it did take
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off because it's to expect
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so unit slipping some lovely say we're
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looking for squirrel yeah yeah he's
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right over there under the slug yeah
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these doors are pocket doors they slide
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open into the wall and if the east-west
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exposure that East Side is Mediterranean
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garden the west side is English garden
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walked our when the first got that thing
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that it was kind of dark is it's mr.
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Peterson was quite a smoker particular
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cigars and of course they have to
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restore it so tonight the tower still
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looks the same it is same so the pieces
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that you see
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creaky floors really adds to the mood of
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okay it either goes in the ground but
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he's kind of stuck out in there and
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these are air plants here is very very
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large backyard it's quite the
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congregation of folks here to check out
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this house very beautiful he'd get up at
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the top of that tower and play the music
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