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1000s of Windows

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This Weeks Theme is Window

You want windows? I’ve got windows for you, plenty of them!

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I took this photo in downtown Chicago when we went there for a visit in August. This photo didn’t make the cut for my photoblog but it’s perfect for this scavenger theme.

I would not want to have a job washing this buildings windows. You’d just finally get finished and you’d have to start all over again. Plus I’m afraid of heights so I don’t think I’d ever end up with a job as a window washer anyway.

Have a great Saturday!

Updated November 9th, 7:48 pm: Thank you for all of your comments. I really didn’t think any of you would want to wash this buildings windows! LOL I loved the creative ideas that you came up with to wash the window though like a fire hydrant filled with windex! Silly people. It would have been interesting if someone that does wash windows for a living had commented. I know it’s probably a lot easier to do this job now than it was 30 or 50 years ago, but it’s still a dangerous job. Even more dangerous in places like India or Asia where they make bamboo structures that the washers climb without ropes to clean the windows. Now that’s dangerous.

That last paragraph added for PPP ’cause this post was too short? I don’t get it.





Words I dislike and one surprising find

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Thursday Thirteen

13 words I hate:

1. Well, the first word is going to be HATE because I think it’s over used. I feel that Hate is a very strong emotion and people say they “hate this” and “hate that” and what they really mean is that they “don’t like” or “dislike” something.

2. The word Woilla – over used on designing shows, by pseudo starlets and pretty much everyone lately. The word is Voila people as in Vvvvvv wa LA.

3. Sorry – another over used word in my opinion. My husband over uses the word. He’s sorry for everything all the time. Why? drop a piece of paper- sorry, sneeze loudly – sorry. Why? Mix it up. Say excuse me or maybe sometimes don’t say anything at all because, maybe, just maybe, there is nothing to be sorry for.

4. Ok – “How are you today?” – OK, “how was your day?” – ok, “Was the movie a good one?” It was Ok. Anyone with a teenager probably knows how frustrating it is to hear this word 100 times each day, but when adults can barely hold a conversation and repeatedly answer with the word Ok it drives me nuts. I think that it’s been said that the average adult has 700 or so words that they use regularly in their vocabulary. Use them.

5. eh? Canadians do not go around saying EH all the time. Honest! Seeing as I’m in Canada and know many Canadians you can believe me when I say that no one I know says eh more than once every two or three weeks- if that.

6. We also don’t say aboot either. No matter what you think you heard when you spoke with a Canadian, we are saying “about” (AhhhhBout).

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Creatures that visit my garden

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A snacking gray squirrel. Isn’t he or she cute? As long as the squirrels are eating bulbs that they’ve dug up from my garden beds, my strawberries, digging holes or climbing on my bird feeders – they’re welcome. Otherwise I don’t want them in my yard. I guess you could say it’s and on again off again war.

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This is a Pink Spotted Hawks moth.

This is what tomato hornworms turn into after their done munching on our tomato plants.

This moth really did look like a small hummingbird as it flitted around my garden a couple of years ago. I’ve seen a few of them every year except for this year. I’ve only ever seen them at dusk or after dark.

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What kind of creatures do you have in your yard? We have several people on GTS that are from Australia – can you show us some of your garden wildlife sometime?

Don’t forget to visit As the Garden Grows for another GTS post.

Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday, visit As the Garden Grows for more information.

Tricia Needs …

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This is something I saw on one of my visitors sites (Thanks Mary). The idea is to do a Google search “your name needs” and see what comes up. Here’s mine:

1. Tricia needs affection, stability and devotion, not charm and empty words – she’s made the right choice. Always!

2. Tricia needs Carlos more than ever and he leaves! Carlos, Carlos how could you do this to me! Wait, who is Carlos anyway?

3. Tricia needs to take a bathroom break. How did you know?

4. Tricia needs help, needs therapy, not the electric chair. Well, some might have differing opinions on that one.

5. Tricia needs to bring me out of the clouds. Does that mean I put you there?

6. Tricia needs the forms that were in your mailboxes last week. Don’t tell me you didn’t get them?

7. TRICIA NEEDS YOUR PRAYERS! Can’t hurt.

8. Tricia needs you. And you, and you and you!

9. Tricia needs your final payment by Monday. Please don’t give me the line that the cheques in the mail, I’m not stupid you know.

10. All Tricia needs is to have her favorite music and things around her. True, very true.

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