Okay,I do have to admit I do hoard stuff that the kids made when they were younger. I think I have every paper that Andrea and James brought home the first few years of school. I can't bring myself to toss anything away because it meant so much to them to bring them home to me! When they grow up and move away, they get it all! Watch, they will pitch it w/out even thinking twice! LOL
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Maybe I hoard things too much?
by Simon ini've just been sorting out various paperwork and going through the filing cabinet.
as well as every pay advice i've ever had (20+ years worth back to '83) i also have every bank statement, every cheque stub and, erm ... a big wad of atm receipts going back at least 10 years !
i just can't stand to throw things away for fear that i may need them one day!!.
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What do you collect?
by scootergirl inanything that brings such enjoyment to your life that it is almost an obsession that you are constantly hunting and searching for?
i collect pieces made my marjolein bastin.
for those that aren't familiar w/this artist, here is a bit about her:.
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LOL Lisa......"dumb ass removal systems"! too funny!
I love music boxes! Three of the Bastin photos I put up are music boxes. Are your particular to any certain kind of theme of music box?
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What do you collect?
by scootergirl inanything that brings such enjoyment to your life that it is almost an obsession that you are constantly hunting and searching for?
i collect pieces made my marjolein bastin.
for those that aren't familiar w/this artist, here is a bit about her:.
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Cool, Big Tex! I bet it is a hoot to watch the old commericals! So where to you find these old games?
Yes, the mother robin is very special to me. Filthy and the kids gave that to me for Mother's Day about two years ago. Funny, there is four babies and our four year old said that there is one for him, one for his brother, one for his sister and the one left over is for Aunt Becky! LOL
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What do you collect?
by scootergirl inanything that brings such enjoyment to your life that it is almost an obsession that you are constantly hunting and searching for?
i collect pieces made my marjolein bastin.
for those that aren't familiar w/this artist, here is a bit about her:.
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So, is there anything that you collect? Anything that brings such enjoyment to your life that it is almost an obsession that you are constantly hunting and searching for?
I collect pieces made my Marjolein Bastin. For those that aren't familiar w/this artist, here is a bit about her:
Considered the most important nature artist in The Netherlands, Marjolein was selected as artist of the year by the people of Holland when she won the Public Award for the Dutch, one of the country's most prestigious honors.
Marjolein's work falls into three main groupings: detailed and exact snapshots of nature (close-ups of what she sees around her); those detailed snapshots that also include Marjolein's personal written observations on nature; and finally, works that show the beauty of nature as touched by human hands, including cut flowers, potted plants, and birdhouses built with pencils.
Here are some of my prize possessions that I have of her in our house:
This is just a few pieces I have collected and am running out of display room for the others! So, what about you? What kinda things do you collect?
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Could we just have one post where everyone .... ?
by Celtic inwhere everyone puts the past behind them, moves on and tries to rekindle what might otherwise have been good friendships, under ideal circumstances?.
several here in times past, i have been rude to, offensive even.
but if just for one post, i could make one further friend from this admission and give that individual everything in my power to assist them and become mates, the post will have been worth it.. how many of us might do that here right now?.
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Life is just way too short and way too precious to hold grudges in my opinion. I have had "issues" in the past w/certain ones, and I try to remember that we both are coming from a different place and different circumstances in life. The best from me was to take a needed break, regroup my thoughts, decide just how important is it and move forward and try to remain civil to others.
To be honest, when I have had had "issues", I often have taken a time out and found out what it was teaching me about myself. How and why I reacted and why it is/was so important to me. It really was a self examining process and a life lesson put before me to understand myself better.
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If Puter can ask your Opinion.. Let me too..
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well..............i have had my hair many colors........as my friends can attest.. today i went black...dark.. so.. what do you all think of the phases of juls.. which color works best on her???
here i am from black.. to blonde and brunettte to auburn.. .
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My vote is for the auborn too! I wish I had the courage to color my hair! Although I have the kind of hair color that changes naturally w/the seasons. I get distinct blonde highlights in the summer and more red in the fall and winter.
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Maybe I hoard things too much?
by Simon ini've just been sorting out various paperwork and going through the filing cabinet.
as well as every pay advice i've ever had (20+ years worth back to '83) i also have every bank statement, every cheque stub and, erm ... a big wad of atm receipts going back at least 10 years !
i just can't stand to throw things away for fear that i may need them one day!!.
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LOL Simon....have to say it sounds like you are a packrat! Can't say that I hang on to those kinds of things and if I do, it is rarely for 20 yrs! Just please don't let us see you on something like "Clean Sweep" show where they go in and totally regut a house to orgainize it and put it back together! hehe http://tlc.discovery.com/fansites/cleansweep/cleansweep.html
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Take a look at these beautiful winged creatures!
by scootergirl insome of you know that we live way out in the country, deep in the woods of northern mn.
one of the great things out here is the abundant wildlife that we see everyday.
last week we had a huge porcupine in the yard (which our four year old calls a hamster.....lol).
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ahhhhhhh Valis! What a nice memory! You camping outside in the great outdoors at the Gould Wildlife reserve! W/the peeper frogs serenading you at night while the fireflies put on your own private show! Now you understand why I speak so highly of where we live and how it would be difficult for me to move into town again.
Celtic, I am not sure. I have a trusty "bird book" that I keep handy and the pages are almost worn out! LOL
So tonight, for shits and giggles I called about an ad in the newspaper for cockatiels for sale. Mind you, I promised Filthy I would not buy anymore birds being that we have ten now, but damn, I am tempted. Breeding pair w/a six week old baby! Elderly woman owns them and doesn't have the time to spend like they deserve. She is offering them for a extremely reasonable price. I should have never called! They come w/all accesories including the cage. LOL......Filthy went out today and bought a new leather recliner. Wonder if he would miss if it suddenly showed up missing and there was a bird cage in it's place?! LOL
Here is a pic of one of the budgie babies. This is Bob and today I got a package of new toys delivered to the house. All the other birds were shy when it came to the toys, but not my Bob! He jumped on right away, started chewing and spinning round and round! LOL.....
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Take a look at these beautiful winged creatures!
by scootergirl insome of you know that we live way out in the country, deep in the woods of northern mn.
one of the great things out here is the abundant wildlife that we see everyday.
last week we had a huge porcupine in the yard (which our four year old calls a hamster.....lol).
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Ohhhhhh......so that is what they are! Thanks!
I am gonna watch and listen very closely for the Cardinal! Hopefully will have my camera near by too!
BTW, startingover, I wrote the fella that had all the birds in Australia that you provided a link for. He wrote me back and seems like such a nice fella. I can't imagine having those kinds of beautiful birds in my backyard! I told my husband last night, I want to go on a bird watching trip. He laughed at me.......said he would never get me home! LOL
Hi Christy,
I?m glad you enjoyed the images of all the birds that we are so fortunate enough to have come visit us.
The birds in the first picture are Rainbow Lorikeets; they are the predominant species that that grace the area in which we live.
As to the question how many birds do we have? We don?t have any, we are their pets, they have us!
We built our house on the top of a hill in a heavily wooded area taking care not to take out more trees than needed, so we are basically nestled in a narrow 1 acre stretch of woods. This meant that all the birds that inhabit this area remained undisturbed and once they got used to us being here started visiting and of course we started feeding them.
The Lorikeets are the cheeky ones, they will line up on the gutters or deck rail waiting to be fed or hang off the window screens tapping on the window to let us know they are there, we usually get as many as 30 to 40 at a time. All the other birds are more skittish and will fly away if we get too close to them, particularly the King Parrots and Rosellas.
We get many other species visiting, usually migratory birds that stay around for a couple of months and then move on such as the Corellas. I only show the more colourful birds on the web page as they seem to attract the most interest but we do get others such as cuckoos, butcher birds, wongas, wattle birds, the list goes on.
Anyway, I?m glad they gave you some pleasure.
Best wishes,
Ken
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Take a look at these beautiful winged creatures!
by scootergirl insome of you know that we live way out in the country, deep in the woods of northern mn.
one of the great things out here is the abundant wildlife that we see everyday.
last week we had a huge porcupine in the yard (which our four year old calls a hamster.....lol).
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Navigator, yes, occasionally we do have a problem w/a squirrel or two. But really, they aren't as abundant as they use to be years ago. We have one large black squirrel that comes around ever now and again, and I watch him closely. He hasn't gotten into the feeders yet. He eats the seeds of the deck railings and floor that the birds drop. We have had raccoons on the deck before. Funniest was one day, a large racoon was up on the railing shaking the feeder and then pushing the seeds down for the other raccons on the floor to eat. They were quite the team! They took turns shaking the feeder. That was only one time though. They haven't been back. We have to be careful towards Fall though before the bears go into hibernation because we have had more than one bear come to the deck in search of sunflower seeds and one last year pulled our hummingbird feeder down. Now, I loved seeing them upclose, but I have to admit, it scared the heebegeebies out of me! Last year, the bear that visited stood ~6 feet tall and pressed his nose against the window looking at me. YIKES!
Razor, now which bird is the Pine Sisken? LOL.....I don't even know! It does amaze me how many of these birds, esp., the Black Capped Chickadees can survive our harsh winters. I think that is one of the reasons why they are my favorite. Such little survivalists. It will be 30 below zero here and they will come to the feeders all puffed up, eating to their hearts content AND SINGING! Have you ever seen a footprint of a chickadee in the snow? It is a beautiful thing to see. So dainty.
I haven't seen a Cardinal around here. I would love to see one though! I put out an orange last night and w/in 30 minutes we had four Orieles here! It amazes me how they find the food in such a large area!
Another great thing that I have always enjoyed is when the leaves fall and we go hiking in the woods, finding all the birds nests that were hidden before. I just am in awe of these winged creatures. Truely am. I can sit out on our deck for hours and just watch. Funny, first glance and you don't really see them, but then when you really "look" the woods are alive w/so many of them.