Share Your World – November 27, 2017
Cee’s Share Your World – November 27, 2017
Would you prefer a reading nook or an art, craft, photography studio?
I always wanted to have a Sunroom as my art studio as well as for my indoor plants. I like to paint in a room with good lighting. Painting in my backyard would be ideal, but I must put the easel, the paint, other materials, and tools away every day. A Sunroom would allow me to leave everything in the room. The sky, the trees, and flowers are always the sources of my inspiration in any creativity. In fact, a Sunroom could be my reading nook and a place for the indoor plants.
We had a quote this year to install a Sunroom. The one with glass roof costs $40,000, and the kind with glass windows without glass roof runs about $27,000. Do I want to pay that much money for an enclosed patio for painting, reading, and planting? I don’t think so. At the meantime, I paint in a room with good lighting.
Tell how you are feeling today in the form of a weather report. (For example, partly cloudy, sunny with a chance for showers, etc.)
I feel sunny with the temperature of 75o Fahrenheit. The humidity is 70%. It’s an ideal weather. Too hot or too cold just keep me indoor for different reasons.
I went to the gym with my husband in the morning and had a good workout. In the afternoon, I went to a garden shop and bought a hibiscus plant with salmon flowers. It was a good day for me.
If you could witness or physically attend any event past, present or future, what would it be?
I love the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s music. I listen to his music so much that when my daughter was four years old, she recognized the Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty. For many years, my tradition was to watch The Nutcracker in Christmas.
Tchaikovsky’s collective body of work constitutes 169 pieces, including symphonies, operas, ballets, concertos, cantatas, and songs. Among his most famed late works are the ballets The Sleeping Beauty (1890) and The Nutcracker (1892).
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Swan Lake
The Nutcracker
For a composer who wrote so many beautiful and romantic fairytale ballet music, one would think that he had a healthy life.
He was struggling with his homosexuality and suffered from depression. His last composition was The Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74, Pathétique. It was his most emotional and melancholy music which was written between February and the end of August 1893. He led the first performance of the Symphony in October, nine days before his death on November 6, 1893.
If I could, I would love to attend Peter Tchaikovsky’s first performance of The Symphony No. 6 in B minor.
What inspired you or what did you appreciate this past week? Feel free to use a quote, a photo, a story, or even a combination.
Mercy, Will, and baby Autumn came to visit us from Sunday to Friday last week. They came to celebrate my birthday, the day before Thanksgiving. They spent Thanksgiving with us along with sixteen family members in our house. It was good to see my husband’s family members. I was also happy to see my sister’s family.
Autumn is a good traveler. She slept all the way through the two-hour flight from Portland, Oregon to southern California. She slept most of the way home.
The Showers of Blessings 
You will ger more time to spend with her then ☺
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Yes, Meenakshi. We’ll go back for one week. 🙂
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Wow! Enjoy the time with Autumn and give her my love
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Thank you, Meenakshi. Yes, I will!
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I always love to know more about Autumn! God bless her. How cool it is to be in journey with you from her prebirth to her growing up. It feels so good. ☺
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Thank you, Meenakshi! I feel wonderful to be by Mercy’s side throughout her pregnancy,.. and was overdue at 41.5 weeks. I felt for her. She had so much trouble feeding in the first few weeks and felt discouraged. Yesterday she happily posted a photo of Autumn being officially 3 months old. It was quite a journey for her!! I may post an update tomorrow (today, it past midnight). 🙂
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I would love to read more about her…congratulations for her third month birthday 😗💖
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Thank you. I feel better to see her growth as Mercy is going back to work pat-time in mid December. 🙂 🙂
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Hi Miriam, Loved this post. I hope you find a solution to a “Painting Room” We got a patio/sunroom with just 9 foot glass walls done about three years ago for about 9,000 and we love it and it was well worth it since my wife, from Hawaii, keeps tropical plants that need to be moved indoors each winter. Of, course this is in Texas.
I just wanted to thank you again for your inspiration on my poem “A Special Time With Him”! That is such a meaningful piece for me and I’m so happy you helped get it out of me after six years.
And also, to thank you so much for your consistent and loyal support of my words and blog. It means so much to me and I love to see you in my email alerts!!
Have a blessed day,
Chuck
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The quote we got was from the top of the line. I still would like to get a second quote for just glass windows. It get too hot in the summer in CA. I have a 10×20 patio, but can enclose part of it, 8×12, maybe.
You’re welcome. Thank you for the preview of your poem tribute to you dad and you eventually post it on his birthday? and showed it to your mom? Someone went to a writing conference and got the idea of writing “20 pictures of my dad,” I may do something like that when I get around to take out his pictures.
This is about the time of the year for your wife to take the plants indoor. It must have been nice to have a sunroom.
Have a nice weekend,
Miriam
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How lovely you got to be with so much family. That glass room is inviting but a little steep. Always appreciate your visits on my blog, Miriam.
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Thank you, Ruth! My pleasure!
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A wonderful post, Miriam. I also love Tchaikovsky and my favourite is also The Nutcracker. Baby Autumn sounds lovely, your daughter is very blessed.
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Yes, I think as Tchaikovsky’s emotion runs deep, the music also touches the depth of the listeners. My daughter is truly blessed with sweet Autumn. I was with her friends when they had parties with babies. Autumn shows her sweet personality!
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Enjoyed knowing more about you Miriam 🙂 Lovely photos – is the first one your house? The beach photo is a super blue 🙂
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No, the first one is a sample sunroom we had considered to install but didn’t. 🙂
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Ahh I see 🙂
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Now I’m just keeping the old patio cover.
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Lovely answers.🌷
Beautiful pictures💖
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Thank you so much, Jann! I just came back blogging a couple days ago. Thank you for your visit!
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Pleasure is all mine.!😊
Good to see you back💖😚
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Thank you so much!! 🙂 🙂
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🙂 🙂
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🙂 xox
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Xxxxx💞💞💞💞
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xox 🙂 xx
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😊🌷
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🙂 🙂
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Looks like you’ve had an awesome week! Wouldn’t it be lovely if money was never an object?
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Yes, that’s the thought!!
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I did not know this about the composer! He is my favorite. I will listen to his music differently now
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Yes, Beth. I listened to his music before I studied about him. What a different feeling I have after knowing about his life.
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I’m so glad you shared this!
Are you still with the baby?
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No, we came back before Thanksgiving because I hosted the Thanksgiving. That was a big job. Now we’re going back to Portland again soon!
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Wow very nice, Keep posting such Fantastic Posts…:-):-):-)
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Thank you very much!
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You are welcome…:-)
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I’ve always liked Tchaikovsky too. Your hibiscus plant sounds oh so beautiful. 😀
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Thank you, Cee. I have red hibiscus. So the salmon color for the next one would look good. 🙂
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A great post! I would choose the beautiful sun room to do art. Call me country, but I would have loved to attend a Johnny Cash show from the past!
You have a beautiful family Miraim.
Dwight
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Thank you, Dwight! My husband like different music. He was listening to Glen Campbell on YouTube most of the night last night. I know some of the country music from the past.
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Glen is as good as it gets!
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I know many of his songs before watching the YouTube with my husband!
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I loved the CNN special that they did on him and his family after he got Alzheimer’s in 2012
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I don’t know if we watched that one. I’ll let my husband know. Thank you. Roth!
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It was lively to learn more about you Miriam. A sun room would indeed be lovely but what a price. I love to hear how Autumn is doing. She sure is a lovely baby. 😊
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Thank you, Brigid. Autumn had her two-month immunization shot. She handled well with a little discomfort. She is a good baby. I’m so thankful and happy for my daughter
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Lovely pictures, Miriam. Love that sunroom too!
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Thank you so much. I’ll just look at the picture of the sunroom but I know now that I won’t pay that kind of money for it!
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Yes, it seems crazy but the picture is tempting
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Yes, the picture looks good. When that style first came out, it was so that expensive. But back then it was expensive. Oh well, I can do without it!
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Of course, Miriam!
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Thank you!
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Great post, I learned something new
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Thank you, I appreciate your comment!
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