Today's view

That is a great shot!!!

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Thank you! I just used my UMX cell phone camera. The light source was the motion-sensor light on the corner of the garage nearest the tree.

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In case yer wond’rin, that’s an old copy of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine her head’s restin’ upon.

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I had a visitor today. Thankfully not because a cat dragged them inside.

Front porch sittin’

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Catless cat-pose.

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Yeah. And with a cat the legs are often invisible too, a position we call “meatloaf.”

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View me!

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Excellent! You have a lovely voice… Thanks for sharing!

Have you ever thought of doing a blog on stuff about things like classical hollywood or mid-century politics, etc? You always are a treasure trove of information about that period…

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I have one, but I don’t keep up with it…if I had any audience, there was no response.

I’m pretty sure my “Why should I demonstrate my skills and talents if no one is going to pay more than a second’s worth of attention?” attitude from my growing-up years.

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The sound-effects are provided by the little poorly-trained dogs next door and the bigger dogs next door to them. Shaking is both from myself and the wind.

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Things that live in my front garden.
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Beautiful roses! (And is the puddy cat.) I liked the two-toned rose especially.

We once visited the International Rose Test Garden in Portland, and it was amazing. One thing we noticed was that a lot of most beautiful roses had either little smell or none. And some of them didn’t smell very good, IIRC. Bred for appearance, I guess.

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The reddish one (whose color is actually a bit more coral; it doesn’t photograph well) is called Tropicana, and my mom brought it over from our house in Detroit and planted it. The other is Medallion, and was given to my mom by a friend of my brother’s, sometime in the late 1990s/early 2000s (I think).

Sugarplum is under the hosta.

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This morning in the shower, I was viciously attacked by the exhaust fan that you don’t see here:

Somehow it missed me entirely but tore a hole in the shower curtain – I can’t even figure out that trajectory, maybe it swung by the electrical cord. Also, startled the bejeezus out of me.

When I was a (nervous) kid I used to worry about ceiling fans shaking themselves loose and falling, but this isn’t a scenario I imagined… :laughing:

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Glad it missed. We have one like that. Right over the toilet.

At first I thought, wow, it tore out a square of plasterboard as well. :roll_eyes:

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Too hot for fires most of the year, so I converted an old log into a planter and used my 5-year old’s succulents to make a display for the fireplace.

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Migawd, that is so cool! I love the contrasts, with the green being the highlights!

I salute you!

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Thanks. The second I saw the downed log, I imagined succulents growing out of it. My daughter and I are also doing our first attempt to propagate some Saxifragale succulent-likes. Hopefully we can add those in the coming weeks.

In the meantime, she got a new staghorn.

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