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    A question, a call to action.

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

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

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    Outside my window I see the back of an instrument shed. It is covered in corrugated metal.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Snowqueen View Post
    Outside my window, I can only see a beautiful starry sky and my little dark garden.
    Do you grow anything in your little dark garden?
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    Quote Originally Posted by papayahed View Post
    Outside my window I see the back of an instrument shed. It is covered in corrugated metal.
    Somehow I knew this was going to be interesting

    What's in the shed?
    Is the metal rusty or new?
    Which window are you looking out of?
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    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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    Quote Originally Posted by SkullFarmer View Post
    Excellent, thanks for posting! I thought I was gonna get stood up entirely

    By the by, were you able to see Jupiter and Venus last week right up next to the moon? (they appeared that way anyway)
    Nope. But maybe I didn't look. Anyway it's very cloudy in Vienna.
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    Quote Originally Posted by pussnboots View Post
    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.
    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

    I have a sweetgum story that I'll tell you in due course.
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    yeah, they're spiky little buggers!!!
    What Are You Crazy!!!

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    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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    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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    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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    Quote Originally Posted by SkullFarmer View Post
    What's in the shed?
    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.

    Is the metal rusty or new?
    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.

    Which window are you looking out of
    The only window in my office.
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