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It's time for breakfast in the sun!
This bee is enjoying itself.
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very nice photo 
βThink for yourself and question authorityβ
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Looks like Spring has sprung in beautiful Canada!
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Thank you! I'm not sure my camera is 100% suited to such close-up photography, but I think this turned out quite nicely too. I spent a wonderful afternoon amidst bees and wildflowers. It was a beautiful day!
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Great breakfast in spring the nature awakes again
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I'm being reminded how much I like being outdoors! Thank you for your comment, Talisien!
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so am I, always my pleasure
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Nice one!
Hugs,
Anj
P.S. I quit work a little early.
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Thank you! 
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Yeah... I'm a night owl. I don't get up until around noon, and then I work until around midnight. I wanted to get more done today than I did... but oh well. I don't want to work on the weekend but I'm probably going to need to do so. Not a big deal. It's work and I'm glad I have it. I wish there was more out there.
I'm AM tired. This working like this is not good for me. I stop to cook supper and eat supper, but other than that I'm glued to the computer doing shop drawings. My blood glucose is up because I'm not getting the exercise. ARGHHHH If it isn't one thing it's another. 
AND I didn't say that so you'd feel badly for me... it's just a fact of life.
Hugs,
Anj
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I'm a night owl too, Anj, though I'm trying to change that. I like to see a bit of sunlight in my apartment, and that only happens in the mornings. The rest of the day, it's fairly dark in here. What are shop drawings? I read your note, and I'll answer it as soon as I can. I found it most interesting! You must have incredible energy. I think we all have blessings as well as burdens. Sometimes, they're one and the same!
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Okay,you know what architectural drawings are, right? Blueprints? Only there's no blueprints anymore. Architectural drawings are the entire building and contain many trades, but they are basically ideas. What I do is take what the architect has drawn and draw it again, showing the way to manufacture and erect it. If you go into a McDonald's you go through aluminum and glass entrances. If you see a building that looks like it's all glass, that's aluminum and glass curtain wall. That's what I do.
Boy, that would be a bummer if I only could see daylight in the mornings. We have windows on the all four sides. The living room faces the east so it gets morning sun (and has a stained glass window). Hmmm the master bedroom has an east window as well as south and west. The master bath has both a south and a west window. The kitchen and utility room, as well as the French doors to the deck and my office have west windows. My office and Katelynn's bedroom have north windows. Then Katelynn's bedroom and Ana's bedroom both have east windows. NOW... Ana would be the one who would only see morning sun if she was stuck in her room all day.
Hmmm... I don't know about incredible energy. Sometimes I have a hard time dragging my behind out of bed.
But I do have problems sleeping and that's probably because I'm mostly on the go... or if not on the go at least doing something.
Hugs,
Anj
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What interesting work you do! It's art! Do you use special software for this? What did you study in order to learn how to do this? It sounds very complex. You enjoy it, I hope?
Your house sounds fabulous! Hearing about the stained glass window already puts a big smile on my face! And all those windows! A dream! My bathroom and kitchen have no windows at all. I miss it. It's so nice to have fresh air in the bathroom and a view while you're working in the kitchen. Do you find that your house gets very hot in the summer because of sun coming in? I used to live on the west side of my building, and it was a sauna in the summer! Our apartment building was supposedly designed to let sun in in the winter and block it in the summer. However, they seem to have gotten it exactly backwards!
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Yes, I work with AutoCAD. I also use Adobe Professional. That's the expensive software that makes it impossible for me to go to Windows 7.
We think we have a really nice place. I love it a lot.
Our house would get hot in the summer whether or not we have all the windows. We have mini blinds in each so we can block out the sun. It gets so hot here that it sometimes doesn't cool down below 85ΒΊ or 85ΒΊF at night. Last year we had a record hot summer along with a drought. It was miserable. BUT.. when it gets really hot it also is dry so that the heat isn't as noticeable.
Wow... there goes the energy efficient building!
Do you live by yourself?
Hugs,
Anj
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This is also supposed to be an environmentally-friendly building in other ways, but it falls short. I am impressed by some of the families living here, though, who make major efforts to live in a sustainable way. I try my very best too.
Blinds make a big difference, don't they? I use them too. I have white curtains and blinds, so I still have light, while blocking out the strong sun. We have extreme heat and humidity here in the summer, plus filthy pollution. Of course, depending on where you live, you may have even hotter weather! When we have the rare hot but dry day, I feel much better. It's the humidity and stinky air that make me feel so wiped out, I think.
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Blinds make a HUGE difference in the summer time here. One almost can't do without them to block out the heat. Our's are white too, but they block most of the sun. I think it's probably hotter here in the summer, and it lasts longer. I am originally from northwestern Iowa, and the summers there are miserable, but for a different reason. It doesn't get as hot there, usually mid- to upper-90's F., but the humidity makes it miserable.
Here it gets a lot hotter but in compensation, at least when it's hottest, it's normally a lot drier too. Last summer, granted it was an extra hot summer, it was nothing to see a high of 112ΒΊF. I remember my sister-in-law calling and me sitting out on the porch talking to her. It was 105ΒΊ in the shade and she was amazed I was outside. As long as there was a breeze it wasn't all that bad because perspiration evaporated immediately.
I'm sure it's the humidity that knocks the stuffing out of you. It's miserable and I hate it. According to the weather we're supposed to have highs in the 80's and the humidity is supposed to go up tomorrow. Oh joy... we don't have the AC fixed (it's not cooling as well as it should... it's been cranky ever since we bought this place) so we'll just have to tough it out. Thank goodness we have LOTS of fans!
I hope your humidity doesn't wilt you too badly!
Hugs,
Anj
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So far, we're fine here. If anything, it's on the cool side. It snowed yesterday! I don't like the summer humidity too much, though. One's skin feels as though it has mayonnaise on it all summer long! People joke that when you change your T-shirt in this city, you need two fresh ones on hand. That's because changing into the first one will make you sweat so hard that you'll have to take it right off again! 
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Your humidity sounds like Iowa humidity. The problem with that kind of humidity is that it's really a killer. It isn't the heat that kills, it's the inability of the perspiration to evaporate.
We bought this place in September of 2007.
Hugs,
Anj
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I guess if perspiration can't evaporate, people's temperature rises and rises? I've had heat exhaustion many times over the past few years. I've heard that it's dangerous. I have to keep working, though. I just go inside for a few minutes, drink some water, and splash some cold water on my face. Then I go back to work. I do try and stay in the shade.
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Yes, that is exactly it! Try a cool shower too. Heat exhaustion is no fun. I had a really bad case one time and ended up in the hospital. (It was the year we moved to Texas and I didn't realize how bad the heat and sun was).
Hugs,
Anj
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It must have been very bad to land you in the hospital! My worst incident was one time when I couldn't walk another step. I couldn't lift my feet. (The other, usual heat exhaustion symptoms were there too, of course.) I sank down at the edge of a neighbour's garden and stayed there until I could move again. Scary!
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Oh, I recognize your symptoms! I'd get those in Iowa when I tried to do too much in the heat and humidity.
Yeah, that time in the hospital was bad. It was so bad that I couldn't stop vomitting which only added to the problem because I was severely dehydrated. They put a couple of IV's through me and when I got home I still weighed about 10 pounds less than I had the day before. Pretty stupid of me!
Hugs,
Anj
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It sounds just awful, with the vomiting and all!
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