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Offline littlerose

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Hello, Good Morning!
« on: December 19, 2009, 08:56:28 AM »
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    • Good morning! It is bright and sunny this Saturday in Texas.

    Have some coffee and danish:
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    I didn't set my alarm (actually, I think it is broken) and so I slept in until almost eight-o'clock.

    Sir Chirps woke me with his chortling and twittering. Somewhere along the line, I think he heard some warblers outside because lately he has started a most un-parakeet-like musical whistling. It is very beautiful, and he treated me to a few bars before demanding that I get up and remove his cover.

    I did that and then fixed myself a cup of coffee, having finally found my coffeepot! (I hope I do not have to move again for at least five years!) I said my "Our Father" and then took the coffee out to the beautiful sunlit patio.

    how about you? How are you starting your day?  

    I'm going to get up and clean the house now, work on some crafts, and be back at lunch.
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    Hello, Good Morning!
    « Reply #1 on: December 19, 2009, 10:59:05 AM »
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    • Well, it being Christmas week (almost) I imagine most people are too busy to poke their heads online right now....

    Well I got some more clothing unpacked and put away and also discovered that as wonderful as my huge walk-in closet is, it is not ventilated at all and so I fixed up a small fan to air it out.

    But before getting started with that, I set up a CD of very rythmic music and put it on "repeat" so that Sir Chirps can hear one of his favorite pieces over and over. It is the violinist Vanessa-Mae and I think Sir Chirps varies his dancing and whistling to accompany different movements, but I want to see exactly what he does.  (I've only had him since August and part of the time was working too much to watch him, then while I moved he spent a few weeks working as a "greeter" in a friend's antique shop, *lol*)

    Head-bobbing definitely increases with percussive parts, and he seems to listen somewhat more to rising notes, but I want to see if it is the same way each time. Who needs cable TV when you have a bird like Sir Chirpsalot?  :dancing-banana:
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    Hello, Good Morning!
    « Reply #2 on: December 19, 2009, 02:01:40 PM »
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    •  :roll-laugh1:

    I have the opera on the radio, and a tenor just gave a big screech in the middle of his song, then a moment of silence before he resumes singing... :faint:

    Sir Chirps just about fell off his perch and sat silent and still. While the song was going on he was in twittering conversation with his mirror, and apparently he thinks his mirror just screamed at him...

    Now the opera has resumed and he is back to conversing with his mirror.... :laugh1:

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    Offline Catholic Samurai

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    Hello, Good Morning!
    « Reply #3 on: December 19, 2009, 06:47:26 PM »
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    • So is this going to be our morning "Twitter" for the forum or what?  :laugh1:

    I dont think there will be much participation in this particular thread. I dont think anybody here "tweets).

    Will it be like the good morning thread on Ignis?

    I would post but my mornings are not as interesting as littlerose's. lol
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    TEJANO AND PROUD!

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    Hello, Good Morning!
    « Reply #4 on: December 19, 2009, 06:56:15 PM »
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    • No, nothing to do with the website "Twitter".

    "To twitter" is an English word meaning that a bird is making a chirpy series of sounds: "twiitttertwittwit"....

    I was just describing the actual noise of my actual bird... *LOL*

    I know most of the threads in Cathinfo are serious ecclesiastic or doctrinal discussions, but there is room for a little break here and there... even if only a handful stop by to say "hello" before moving on to the debates of the moment.
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    Hello, Good Morning!
    « Reply #5 on: December 19, 2009, 07:06:15 PM »
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    • Quote from: littlerose
    No, nothing to do with the website "Twitter".

    "To twitter" is an English word meaning that a bird is making a chirpy series of sounds: "twiitttertwittwit"....

    I was just describing the actual noise of my actual bird... *LOL*



    Oh I knew that. But what I was referring to was the idea of the thread.

    okay.  :smirk:
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    Hello, Good Morning!
    « Reply #6 on: December 19, 2009, 07:19:50 PM »
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    • *lol* you scared me for a minute there... thought we'd lost another English word to the 'net!  :smash-pc:

    Well, I know it will be slow, but I've noticed that in many communities, a thread like this can really strengthen the membership the same way church suppers can help people of many different levels of piety and understanding remain loyal to their parish.  :ready-to-eat:  

    Not to go the way of the warm-fuzzies and toss the central raison d'etre out through the stained-glass windows of the sanctuary,  :incense:  but just to let some good bake-sale and pot-luck aromas waft up from the hall in the church basement.....

    Maybe even get a Bingo game going....  :cheers:
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    Hello, Good Morning!
    « Reply #7 on: December 19, 2009, 07:31:26 PM »
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    • Sounds good to me! Now pass me some of those macaroons, if you please.  :ready-to-eat:
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    Hello, Good Morning!
    « Reply #8 on: December 19, 2009, 09:55:53 PM »
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    • Maybe whoever gets here first could start the next "Good Morning" thread, and put a date in the sub-title  :wave:
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    Hello, Good Morning!
    « Reply #9 on: December 21, 2009, 09:30:18 AM »
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    • Why not just have one Good Morning thread? That way we dont have a thousand Good Morning threads.
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    Hello, Good Morning!
    « Reply #10 on: December 21, 2009, 12:19:34 PM »
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    • Yes, you are right.  :sign-surrender:

    So, good morning on Monday, Dec 21. It is actually just past noon where I am....

    Where did the day go?  :smash-pc:

    I slept in until 9 because I stayed up late with sewing last night, after working on a new crucifix. When it is finished I will have it blessed and hang it over the door.

    I left my old one in my last apartment. I hope whoever finds it is blessed. I make them out of paper-mache.
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    Hello, Good Morning!
    « Reply #11 on: December 21, 2009, 12:33:52 PM »
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    • I shall join in!

    I spent my morning attempting to find an alarm clock that wasn't there, so I assumed I was still dreaming and checked to make sure that the pillow was properly placed over my head before I lost consciousness again. I finally wake up when I realize that I need to take my truck over to the body shop to have my bumper replaced. Sat in there for three hours reading that book "Man At Play" by Hugo Rahner that I reccommended to Mr.Green but then took the last copy off of Amazon for myself  :thinking:

    I am now eating a pizza, so I'm happy. :)
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    Hello, Good Morning!
    « Reply #12 on: December 21, 2009, 01:29:57 PM »
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    • I had lunch, trying to get through new case and really have to get back to the gym-likely wil not lose weight, but at least will ahve more energy, tired.......
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    Hello, Good Morning!
    « Reply #13 on: December 21, 2009, 01:50:26 PM »
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    • Hi, Lybus and Belloc!

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    I had lunch, trying to get through new case and really have to get back to the gym-likely wil not lose weight, but at least will ahve more energy, tired.......


    Well, I just finished replying to your cucuмber remark over in the garden thread and now I am going to take a walk over to my storage to get some things. My Christmas Carol book, for one thing. My asthma seems to be finally leaving and so I may be able to regale my more forgiving friends after Christmas dinner!

    It is 67F and sunny, perfect for a brisk walk.
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    Hello, Good Morning!
    « Reply #14 on: December 22, 2009, 02:19:07 PM »
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    • wow: halfway through the afternoon and no one has been in the morning cafe!

    I had to blast out of here to keep an appointment after not hearing my alarm clock, only to find myself at the wrong building for the apointment.... *sigh*

    Two bus connections later got to the right place and rescheduled the appointment for after Christmas...  had more errands to do but gave up for the day.

    Regular bus is on detour so I had to walk back around a different way home, and there was a lovely gift: I saw a special tree at the edge of a yard not far from my place. It is a type of long-needled, loose-barked pine tree that I have not seen this far west of East Texas, and it is like gourmet candy to my orchids. The bark of the tree flakes off into the grass around it (it is considered a "messy" tree by some) and a handful of those flakes in an orchid's regular bark mix will make that orchid's growth go "kapow!"

    So I made a mental note of the house attached to that tree and will find an excuse soon to drop by and see if they mind me picking up a handful of bark now and then.

    I've tried to persuade friends with relatives in East Texas to pack up a big bag of that bark from the Piney Woods, but none of them quite understand my addiction to orchids and they nod sympathetically without ever agreeing to actually go out and forage for bark  *LOL*  
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