C: C’mon, Let’s Exercise Your Vocabulary!

I think I have a decent vocabulary.  I love words and don’t often run across English words that I simply do not recognize.  I may not know the definitions off the top of my head when it comes to the more obscure, but I usually at least recognize the word.  But I ran across a new one this week.

I was internet-stalking Suzanne Somers the other day…er, I mean, I was snooping a look or two at her estate high on a mountain overlooking Palm Springs that is now being offered at a reduced price of a mere $15 million.  It sounds lovely.

I don’t think this picture really captures the place:

The estate has several buildings and has ten bedrooms and 11 bathrooms. 

As you can see, it has a marvelous kitchen:

and beautiful outdoor spaces:

It has a pool and, for the performing arts, an outdoor amphitheater.  What more could one want?

I was really living it up vicariously when I got to the part that said one of the unique things about the property is that it is only reached by a funicular.

Huh?

Funicular?

Well, that sent me to the dictionary, where I found that a funicular is a cable-drawn car which transports folks up a steep incline, like a mountainside.  I found pictures of Suzanne’s funicular:

And here she is snuggled up having a blast with some guy (her husband?) in bathrobes (do you reckon they ride up and down the mountain in their bathrobes often?):

Here are a few more examples of funiculars for your learning pleasure:

Do not ever say you cannot learn things here from the Stickhorse Cowgirls.  (If you are kind you will at least pretend you didn’t already know this word…)

-C

PS – BTW, I am afraid of heights.  The funicular entrance killed the deal for me…Suzanne must look elsewhere to unload that estate.