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| Alee |
Posted - Apr 21 2010 : 12:57:57 PM
I think having the windows open on a bright beautiful spring time day is such a gift! I am cleaning my house, shampooing carpets and I have the windows wide open! The air is so fresh and clean!
I hate breathing old stuffy "winter" air when the air outside is so beautiful! Plus it is healthier for us too! Most modern furniture, wall paint, and floor coverings outgas into our atmosphere. This outgasing is incredibly unhealthy for us. I have heard that our household air can be something like 9x more toxic than city smog sometimes! Yikes! That's pretty gross!
Speaking of fresh clean air, I think I am going to take down my window sheers and wash them so they are nice and clean too....
Alee
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| Calicogirl |
Posted - May 19 2010 : 11:06:58 AM
Alee, I hope Nora is feeling better.
Kathy, I too love sleeping with windows open, for me not only crickets and rain are a lullaby but the bull frogs too!
Oh our windows are open today even though a bit breezy. Ahhh the scent of Apple Blossoms and Alfalfa :)
~Sharon
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| Alee |
Posted - May 18 2010 : 7:07:59 PM
I have had the living room window open for 24 hours now. It is so nice in the living room right now. I would rather be outside but with a sick kiddo I need to keep her comfy on the couch :(
Alee
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| katalind |
Posted - May 18 2010 : 2:26:29 PM
I love sleeping with the windows open on a night and listening to the crickets and the rain, it's nature's Lullaby. Only problem is right now is it's too hot. I can't wait for autumn (my favorite season). |
| phonelady |
Posted - May 09 2010 : 9:33:41 PM
Well, 10:30 Pm and I just finished planting the tomato starters that Dad gave me [No I don't normally plant by the light of the moon, we got started watching Titanic on TV and I had to finish watching it before I could go home.
Anyway, it's beautiful out and I opened the windows to let the nighttime breeze come through. There's another storm coming and the first rain is supposed to be tomorrow morning.
The temps may drop again.
Weird weather!
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It's an adventure! |
| delicia |
Posted - May 09 2010 : 3:04:35 PM
I am dreaming of visiting all of you. Your houses and days sound so nice. I too would love to see some photos of your sewing room Teresa.
delicia |
| Alee |
Posted - May 08 2010 : 9:29:53 PM
That is great, Teresa!! It sounds like your sewing room is a wonderful place to be! I would love to see pictures!
Alee
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| bluebellequilts |
Posted - May 08 2010 : 5:44:01 PM
It's been a beautiful, breezy 74 degrees in my part of Georgia today. Now that the pine pollen is behind us, I spent the afternoon scrubbing my screened porches and patio furniture. My scrub bucket water looked like yellow soup by the time I finished. I'm so glad that nasty chore is DONE! 
The reward is that I'm about to go sit in my sewing room with the door wide open. Our lower screened porch is right off my sewing room, so I can stitch bug-free. It's a good thing - because the mosquitoes really seem to like me! |
| Alee |
Posted - May 08 2010 : 3:21:57 PM
I agree, AnneMarie! I love the windows being open! I don't necessarily like cleaning, but tomorrow will be a beautiful day and the windows WILL be open and fresh air will be rushing through the house. I am also going to shampoo our mattresses and have them air dry in that nice clean air. Nothing like sleeping on a clean mattress!
Alee
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| knittingmom |
Posted - May 08 2010 : 11:14:19 AM
I'm with you, as soon as it gets over the freezing mark and the windows thaw they're open, even for a short period. There's nothing like fresh air to wake a place up.
"There is no foot so small that it cannot leave an imprint on this world" |
| phonelady |
Posted - May 07 2010 : 7:23:13 PM
Oh man Beth,
You are spoiled!
Hey Alee,
Never thought of doing that!
Smiles!
Carla
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| MotherLodeBeth |
Posted - May 07 2010 : 5:01:29 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Alee
I think having the windows open on a bright beautiful spring time day is such a gift! I am cleaning my house, shampooing carpets and I have the windows wide open! The air is so fresh and clean!
As soon as I get up in the morning windows get opened, doors get opened to let the fresh air in, (yes I have screen doors) and the bedding is pulled back to air the sheets out. Then I shower, eat and by then the beds are made.
Thankfully I like a nap in the afternoon, so lay outside between working in the vegetable garden, as the chickens go about their work, and since I have a bed net above the hammock I can nap for half an hour bug free 
~Beth~
~I am the best of France and California~ |
| Alee |
Posted - May 07 2010 : 05:50:38 AM
Carla- you should plant some alfafa in a pot and grow some. I love the smell too!
Alee
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| phonelady |
Posted - May 06 2010 : 10:46:19 PM
Oh man,
I used to love the smell of alfalfa out in the fields when we where in Kansas.
To this day if an alfalfa truck goes by with a load, I have to take a looong sniff just for the memories.
Smiles!
Carla
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It's an adventure! |
| Calicogirl |
Posted - May 06 2010 : 08:47:49 AM
It's 63 right now and a little breezy but I have a couple of windows open. I like to have the kitchen window open when I am baking so when my honey comes home from work he can smell home made bread :)
I am smelling the faint scent of Alfalfa right now too. I love it but when cutting season starts the windows will be closed (allergies)
~Sharon
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| sherrye |
Posted - May 06 2010 : 08:10:31 AM
delicia, want to bee ..lol.. sure you buy raw unfiltered honey.glass is best. best eaten cold or room temp not in something hot.this way he is getting small bits of the natural environment in his system. body learns how to cope (adapt) with load.the natural wax in jar is good to chew to clean your teeth. it tastes so good. maybe there is a bee farmgirl close to you. you could get honey from her. happy days sherrye
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| delicia |
Posted - May 05 2010 : 4:53:37 PM
He does love honey so I will give that a try. I had not heard that. Thank you so much Sherrye for the great idea.
delicia |
| sherrye |
Posted - May 05 2010 : 12:59:15 PM
i know sometimes it seems nothing helps allergies. some say eating raw unfiltered local honey helps. it helps the immune system balance. just a thought for you delicia. you paobably have tried everything already.
alee i am going to help with some clydesdale hooves. it is snowing sideways got my warm bibs and vest.happy days sherrye
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| delicia |
Posted - May 05 2010 : 10:17:32 AM
I also love to open the windows. The issue I have is that my son has terrible allergies. I go through opening them and he goes right behind me closing them. He says I am trying to kill him.
delicia |
| Alee |
Posted - May 05 2010 : 08:52:03 AM
Sounds great Sherry!! I appreciate it. Let me know how much the shipping is and I will send you out money right away.
It was crazy windy here the past couple of days and we are supposed to get snow tonight/tomorrow!! Yuck!! I will be covering my poor little strawberry plants for sure! Right now it is beautiful if a bit chilly out.
When I came home last night the wind had knocked two huge branches off trees in my front yard and had to park my Jimmy almost in front of the next house because of the branches.
It's amazing to be a witness to the changes in the spring weather. It really makes you respect the power this earth has to change at a moment's notice!
Alee
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| sherrye |
Posted - May 05 2010 : 07:43:47 AM
i am hoping to be home tomorrow and fling all the doors and windows OPEN...today has a big to do list. tomorrow is mt day. i love the feeling that comes when i have a whole day to me. papa is gone. i love him so much. BUT when he is gone i do not cook dinner. i eat at 3. gives me a whole new part of the day. i know i want to do my windows. i have inside done. if the weather will cooperate. you girls were talking weather. i spoke with my sister in burns. she told me they had such a high wind that 50 telephone/electric poles came down.one mans 1/4 mile pivet was thrown in the air. over the hill through 2 fences the highway another field. to be found twisted and wrapped in wires and poles. they said high freak wind not tornado. holy mackeral. its been gentle and kind weather here. so glad. a lot to do. tomorrow will be strawberry digging day.
Alee i will get yours packed up and out by friday.
when we get a little above 30 which it is now i am flinging open the doors. i love fresh cool clean air happy days sherrye
when i look at all the posts alee and kris and teresa,some of the girls have been here so long. i am grateful for the privledge of being included in such a fine group of woman. sherrye
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| Alee |
Posted - May 05 2010 : 06:17:12 AM
Marly- Right now the temp here is 30 degrees. I am looking forward to when the temperature is a bit more moderate during the night time. At least this morning we have some sunshine so after all that rain I hope we get some good plant growth! My plant babies are still hanging out in the garage with the southern window. The only thing I worry about is that it is a double window so I hope enough light gets in!
Alee
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| Bear5 |
Posted - May 04 2010 : 8:16:15 PM
Alee- 92 is a little warm for me, too, right now. But, that's Louisiana weather. LOL. How is Tala doing? You haven't mentioned her in a while, or I missed it if you did. Take care.
Marly
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| Alee |
Posted - May 03 2010 : 7:55:56 PM
Marly- 92 is VERY warm for me right now. I like wearing sweaters a bit! LOL
Alee
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| Bear5 |
Posted - May 03 2010 : 4:23:59 PM
Hi Alee:
It was 92 degrees in Louisiana today. I had the A/C on so the windows remained closed, LOL! And, my inside cats would try to escape if I had the windows opened. LOL.
Marly
"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had." Elisabeth Kurler-Ross |
| urban chickie |
Posted - May 03 2010 : 08:24:01 AM
I love the open windows but I do a lot of fermenting foods and the fruit flies have already found me this season lol!
Catherine
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