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Hello

Would you please look out your nearest window and list the following:

1). The window exists in which room?
2). Please describe, in some detail, the first thing that your eye falls upon.

Thank you!

1.) My only room. I live in a student house so it's my bedroom, study. In short my everythind.

2.) The moon. (What a cliché). Anyway, it's cloudy and I can only see some silvery streaks. Actually while I'm writing this the clouds have moved on. I can see it clearly now. It's not yet a full moon but nice allthesame.

Excellent, thanks for posting! I thought I was gonna get stood up entirely :D

By the by, were you able to see Jupiter and Venus last week right up next to the moon? (they appeared that way anyway)

Outside my window, I can only see a beautiful starry sky and my little dark garden.

Outside my window I see the back of an instrument shed. It is covered in corrugated metal.

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Originally Posted by Snowqueen

Outside my window, I can only see a beautiful starry sky and my little dark garden.

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Do you grow anything in your little dark garden?

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Originally Posted by papayahed

Outside my window I see the back of an instrument shed. It is covered in corrugated metal.

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Somehow I knew this was going to be interesting :)

What's in the shed? :D
Is the metal rusty or new?
Which window are you looking out of?

when I look out my glass sliders in my living room, the first thing I see is a tree that has those annoying little balls on it. I don't know what you call them but I can't tell you how many times I have almost twisted my ankle stepping on those darn round thingys!!!
By the way, I was able to see Jupiter and Venus that night as well.

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Originally Posted by SkullFarmer

Excellent, thanks for posting! I thought I was gonna get stood up entirely :D

By the by, were you able to see Jupiter and Venus last week right up next to the moon? (they appeared that way anyway)

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Nope. But maybe I didn't look. Anyway it's very cloudy in Vienna.

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Originally Posted by pussnboots

when I look out my glass sliders in my living room, the first thing I see is a tree that has those annoying little balls on it. I don't know what you call them but I can't tell you how many times I have almost twisted my ankle stepping on those darn round thingys!!!
By the way, I was able to see Jupiter and Venus that night as well.

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Hmmm... are those spiky balls or smooth balls? I feel as if I'm typing something naughty!

Anyway, spiky are from a sweetgum and the smooth could actually defy explanation if you're lucky :D

I have a sweetgum story that I'll tell you in due course.

yeah, they're spiky little buggers!!!

Outside my window, i can see the leaves of fig tree in the garden and nothing more as it is very dark.

I am at work so when I look out of the window in my office I see the office below. Everyone is on the phone and doing what they should be doing which reminds me I should be also....

I am looking out my frontroom window which faces the front road. It is twilight now, so the earth has taken on a blue-y hue due to the reflection of sky on snow.
The snow is over a foot deep and I see naked branches of what were beautiful lush trees only a few months ago.

Two evergreens have boughs that are swaying to a light wind and there is frost trying to come in the bottom edge of the window (my window in the frontroom is almost a wall in itself (about ten feet wide by seven feet tall) ... somethin' like that.

What a great thread, SkullFarmer, and a warm welcome to LitNet from me to you. :)

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What's in the shed? :D

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The shed contains two guys and various instruments (it's not really a shed but a portable building). I can see five rocks on the roof of the shack from other people throwing rocks in the roof to scare the two inhabitants.

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Is the metal rusty or new?

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It's not rusty but it's not new, the metal is a dull gray. If I had my way the shed would be gone and the two guys would be working in a permanent building at work benchs.

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Which window are you looking out of

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The only window in my office.

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Originally Posted by mercy_mankind

Outside my window, i can see the leaves of fig tree in the garden and nothing more as it is very dark.

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Sounds biblical (fig leaves, garden) oh... and check my avatar... what a coinkidink!

:D

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Originally Posted by Joreads

I am at work so when I look out of the window in my office I see the office below. Everyone is on the phone and doing what they should be doing which reminds me I should be also....

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How many storeys down can you see?

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Originally Posted by SkullFarmer

How many storeys down can you see?

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Just one there are only two and I am on the top floor. I can really only see half of the office from here so I can see Janelle, Mark, Marlyn, Sandy, Helen, Darrin and Linda.

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Originally Posted by kiz_paws

I am looking out my frontroom window which faces the front road. It is twilight now, so the earth has taken on a blue-y hue due to the reflection of sky on snow.
The snow is over a foot deep and I see naked branches of what were beautiful lush trees only a few months ago.

Two evergreens have boughs that are swaying to a light wind and there is frost trying to come in the bottom edge of the window (my window in the frontroom is almost a wall in itself (about ten feet wide by seven feet tall) ... somethin' like that.

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Love all the detail... it put me back into my childhood in the snowbelt. Where I reside now is rather...hot :D

Winter in the woods is one of my favorite things. Thanks for the images.

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What a great thread, SkullFarmer, and a warm welcome to LitNet from me to you. :)

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Why thank you! It's amazing how much you can learn from folks by asking a simple question. I have another like thread simmering in the back of my mind. It's going to be scary I think :D

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Just one there are only two and I am on the top floor. I can really only see half of the office from here so I can see Janelle, Mark, Marlyn, Sandy, Helen, Darrin and Linda.

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Have you ever dropped anything on them? :angel:

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Sounds biblical (fig leaves, garden) oh... and check my avatar... what a coinkidink!

:D

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Welcome to forums SkullFarmer. By the way what is this in your avatar?!

Looking out my bedroom window, I see an oak tree. It's bare except for one or two dead leaves. It's dripping wet because it's raining; there's beads of water on some of the branches.

Hi SkullFarmer,
I did grow some herbs once, but my mom is really fond of gardening.

Living room window

I see my back garden, then a link fence, then an apartment parking lot, with a corner of the apartment in it. Then I see one of the cities main roads, then a forest owned by the University.

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Originally Posted by Weisinheimer

Looking out my bedroom window, I see an oak tree. It's bare except for one or two dead leaves. It's dripping wet because it's raining; there's beads of water on some of the branches.

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Did the leaves fall off yet? :D

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Originally Posted by Snowqueen

Hi SkullFarmer,
I did grow some herbs once, but my mom is really fond of gardening.

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Well, now I HAVE to ask... what kind of herbs? Basil? Mint?

... parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme...??

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Originally Posted by BeccaT

Living room window

I see my back garden, then a link fence, then an apartment parking lot, with a corner of the apartment in it. Then I see one of the cities main roads, then a forest owned by the University.

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So you must live in a 'college' town? Are the apartments occupied by many students?

Are you the gardener? If so, what does your garden grow?

Nice question, I grew mint and parsley and I often make delicious spicy chutney.

My apartment is a one-window affair. The view is pretty much pitch black at this point (here in Sweden it's 1am), but the first thing I can see is a set of window 'candle' lights in a house near my apartment block. In this house lives a really cool cat, who my girlfriend and I have christened 'Butt Cat', as he/she has a tendency to stroll up to us, get rubbed and petted (we are cat freaks), before turning around, taking a few steps and then raising its tail, giving us a view which explains the name.

I actually haven't seen Butt Cat in weeks; seems to hibernate for the winter. I'm going back home to Ireland for Christmas in a week though, so I really hope I meet him/her again soon.

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Originally Posted by SkullFarmer

Have you ever dropped anything on them? :angel:

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I have been tempted to but I have managed to keep myself in check so far. Now the thought of doing that will be with me all day ;)

In the living-room, a big window, and the only thing I can see in it is myself, sitting at my computer, because it's dark outside.

Nice thread!

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Originally Posted by Snowqueen

Nice question, I grew mint and parsley and I often make delicious spicy chutney.

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Something I might have never known otherwise :)

Do you make any other preserves?

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Originally Posted by NEEMAN

My apartment is a one-window affair. The view is pretty much pitch black at this point (here in Sweden it's 1am), but the first thing I can see is a set of window 'candle' lights in a house near my apartment block. In this house lives a really cool cat, who my girlfriend and I have christened 'Butt Cat', as he/she has a tendency to stroll up to us, get rubbed and petted (we are cat freaks), before turning around, taking a few steps and then raising its tail, giving us a view which explains the name.

I actually haven't seen Butt Cat in weeks; seems to hibernate for the winter. I'm going back home to Ireland for Christmas in a week though, so I really hope I meet him/her again soon.

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Love it! Thanks for the answer!

When you get home to Ireland I hope you'll remember this thread and tell us what's out your window there.

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I have been tempted to but I have managed to keep myself in check so far. Now the thought of doing that will be with me all day ;)

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At least a feather or a tissue or something. Were it me I think I'd be tempted to dangle a spider on a string or something that might elicit a scream :D

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Originally Posted by Bitterfly

In the living-room, a big window, and the only thing I can see in it is myself, sitting at my computer, because it's dark outside.

Nice thread!

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Which begs the question, what do you see in your reflection?

Ah, you've changed your nickname, haven't you?

And, hum, I see... a monster!! :p
No, I see a dark-haired shape, actually.

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Ah, you've changed your nickname, haven't you?

And, hum, I see... a monster!! :p
No, I see a dark-haired shape, actually.

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A nice board admin helped me with that. I stopped liking the one I was using over a year ago. My new one I'm rather stuck with, online and off.

Now, regarding your answer to my query, you've done a fancy little step and shuffle. Do you waltz too? :D

Looking out my livingroom sliders and watching the snow come down. Its so quiet outside right now.

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Originally Posted by MattG

At least a feather or a tissue or something. Were it me I think I'd be tempted to dangle a spider on a string or something that might elicit a scream :D

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Now that is an idea!!

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Now, regarding your answer to my query, you've done a fancy little step and shuffle. Do you waltz too? :D

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I prefer cancan, but never in front my computer. In Toulouse-Lautrec bars, you know, with volutes of smoke and vapours of cheap alcohol rising up and blurring everything. ;)

Now I can see mirrors in the reflection, those that are on the wall. It's another window, still in the same room. And yes, I like reflections, but not because I can see myself in them but because I like the redoubling effect.