This is a really random question. I was just wanderin’ around here waiting for a call from Drollery who is having a tooth pulled this morning and I noticed there are things laying all over this house — BOOKS! In every room! Usually there’s one in the toity, too, but not today for some weird reason.
The three of us just can’t seem to get enough of them. It’s not uncommon for me to read three or four at a time. I just read whatever one is in the room where I land. It’s not that I’m a pack rat. I just can’t bear to part with all my friends!
Anyway, it made me curious about you all. Do any of you have things laying all over your house because you love ’em or can’t bring yourself to get rid of ’em?
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Hi Cheryl – why don’t your posts appear in my browser. I don’t understand this internet!
My house is full of books. Piles of books all over the place. And I love reading three or four at the same time. You cannot have too many books. They are good insulation too!
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Me either. I have a few I follow I have the same issue with. Then I forget to go check my reader and before I know it, I’ve missed a lot of their posts. Yours was that way for awhile. And I have never been able to get Judy Dykstra-Brown’s blog to work on here. It’s frustrating. But I’m just glad to see ya when I see ya!
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Of course, books. I grew up with hundreds, or more everywhere, and Q has as many, if not more. But there’s also rocks – I collect, and so does he. And chachkas (or however it’s called), mostly mine, of mice, and wolves, and orcas, and of course the absolutely necessary faeries, and candles, and Q’s clocks, and odd shaped thingies – all of which are ticking, and none tell the same time, and not even close to the actual time of day. Records, CDs, DVDs, even VHS tapes, still. And did I mention dust? It all collects dust. Our robot vacuum doesn’t do dusting… lol
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Well for cryin’ out loud! Someone better invent one that will then!!! I know how much you LOVE that thing! 🙂
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I’m thinking one of those Jetson’s robot types. Though Sarah (the house in Eureka) somehow kept the place spic n Span (actually it was the film crew, probably). Oh and one to do the laundry. I’m not too lazy, LOL
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I loved Eureka! I really miss it…
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Books! Glad to know I’m not the only book hoarder. The books are everywhere, but I also have a lot of craft supplies dominating one room in particular. With books. Not that I have time to do all the crafts or read all the books, but I like to know they’re available, lol!
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There are just somethings that make a house a home, aren’t there. I think that’s why it’s so hard for some of us when the kids leave the nest. 😦
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What a beautiful thing to do, I am sure each flower on the Orchid brings back so many happy memories. Are you able to have your Orchids flower again, I never thought they would be so easy to look after. Enjoy your Orchids. Thank you “nonsmokingladybug” for such a lasting thought.
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We just moved into this house, so we are in an unusual state, of NOT having stuff everywhere. I just finished putting up pictures all over the house, so right now I’d say “photographs.”
I like to read, but I think I’m unusual in that I don’t really care to accumulate books. Before I left Boston I donated several car trunkfuls of books to the donation bin at my daughter’s high school.
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Are you a Kindle or a Nook person then? I always wonder what people do with all the books they accumulate on those tablets. You can delete them, but there’s no way to pass them on to someone else. Very curious to me. I’m a book junkie, but I don’t keep the ones I won’t read again, so I do get rid of my fair share of them. Hope you have things fairly well sorted out in time for your housewarming party. AND that the house will feel like it’s YOU by then! 🙂
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I have a Nook and I use it but I still accumulate my share of paper books. (I prefer to read those.) So I don’t have this huge Nook backlog. You just see the little book icon covers on the library screen. But I find them less bothersome than physical books accumulating.
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Daisy most certainly does. If I go to sit on David’s bed to talk to him she will bark and bark until I leave the bedroom. She is the boss, and yet I go out and boys tell me she just cries for me, and yet jumps at me when I get back in.
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Well apparently Daisy just likes all her
duckspeople in a row! 😮LikeLiked by 1 person
It is how my life seems to have been, hate people bossing me don’t mind animals controlling me, their love is so honest they love you the most. Hope I return as a Dog.
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Cat fur and charging cords for our phones and tablets.
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Lordy woman! How many phones and tablets do you two have? More cats! We’re all cat crazy, I guess. 😀
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We have the two phones and two tablets. But we have charging cords in ever room of the house. LOL I think they make baby cords when we’re not home.
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Does that have anything to do with male and female plugs??? 😉
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I have books everywhere. They are on every surface in every room. Aside from that, you will see a cat or two and some pup toys. Often, you will see a cat on a book.
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It looks like we’re all cat/dog/book lovers! Now if we could just teach ’em to read… 🙂 Good to see you Tracey. Thanks for stopping by.
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Books and dog toys everywhere. And the dogs learn very early on that the two are not to be confused!!!
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😀 Can be a problem. We had our son’s little chihuahua here for a time. He decided he liked sharpening his teeth on the rockers on my rocking chair. We didn’t notice for the longest time. Thanks so much for stopping by. I’ll have to come round for a visit.
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Books and cats. And cat fur.
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Your cats are readers too, then, I presume. Twitch is definitely a library cat. She loves to sleep on the books in the bookshelf. 🙂
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I too have got books everywhere, be it from the library, my own books, or school books…
Hope LD’s tooth pulling went well.
Best, Matt
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How many classes are you taking, Matt? Hard ones? Lord D just called from work with a banging headache. Tooth broke all in pieces and had to be dug out. The poor guy is on his way home needing some TLC. I can do that!
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Ouch, sounds painful, I hope that he recovers soon. Four subjects but eight teachers so quite a few textbooks etc; they’re all hard work but I enjoy them all and find them interesting.
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You must be a dream student then. I bet your profs love you!
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I have books everywhere. On my nightstand, in the living room beside my chair, cook books in the kitchen, design books in my workroom and a book beside “The Throne”. Books and plants make a home a home 🙂
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A girl after my own heart! 😀 I do wish I were better with plants, however. Btw, Bridget, what exactly IS your business? I don’t think I’ve ever heard you say.
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I love plants, especially orchids, they are so beautiful and so easy to be cared for.
I work with old furniture kinda 🙂
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I always thought orchids were really finicky. No? So you refinish and cover?
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No Orchids are really easy to keep. You water them ones a week and that’s it.
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So delighted you like Orchids, I too love them they are everywhere.
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I buy special plants in memory of special ones I lost and every time the plants are blooming I smile. The orchids make me smile a long time.
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What a lovely tradition, Bridget.
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(This ended up in the wrong place. Thought I’d add it here so you wouldn’t miss Anna’s comment…)
What a beautiful thing to do, I am sure each flower on the Orchid brings back so many happy memories. Are you able to have your Orchids flower again, I never thought they would be so easy to look after. Enjoy your Orchids. Thank you “nonsmokingladybug” for such a lasting thought.
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I made a post about it, before we met. I buy special plants, for special people, although for special animals in my life.
Orchids are wild flowers in Asia and parts of South america and Australia, they are epiphytes, what means they grow in air not in soil (that’s important). They grow wild and beautiful in regions with not too much water, but a good amount of humidity.
They bloom every 8-10 months and they bloom for a very long time.
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They had the most beautiful deep blue ones at the store where I shop. I wondered if they were REALLY that color or if they were treated somehow like colored carnations are. I ALMOST bought one. I might have to do that. I’ll have to go read your post. What kind if light do they need?
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Blue orchids are not existing, meaning they won’t come back blue. The plant has been artificially colored (with ink) like the blue roses.
Buy a real one, yellow, pink, white, purple, two tone ones.
They grow wild under trees, the don’t like direct sunlight or direct heat.
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Newspapers, well the sports pages in the bathroom and cloakroom, David I have to say. Books all over Jonathan’s Bedroom and his Study, he is a massive reader. Books in the Sitting rooms, and at the moment lots on the floor in boxes too, books in my bedroom and in the hall. But, in the hall, bedrooms, bathroom, landing, hall, Dining room, Sitting rooms, Conservatory, kitchen, every area you will find Dog’s toys. We could make a living from selling them. Although most have either heads/arms/legs missing this is some house!
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I could have guessed the dog toys! You have spoiled that four-footed kid of yours! She’s a lucky girl! 😀 Sports pages but no editorials to get your ire up? 😀
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I dare not remove Daisy’s toys I sometimes nearly fall on them then a few “polite” words come out. Dolls heads, arms/legs from bears cats any furry toy and she likes to chew them.
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Well good heavens, Anna! Sounds like the girl needs a nanny to keep after her. Where’s Mary Poppins when you need her? 😀 You be careful around those toys. And be honest. Daisy DOES rule the house, doesn’t she!
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