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A View from My Deck – 5:00 PM EDT
by MIMom
Posted on 18 April 2009 | 6:49 pm 
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I thought we might have a post similar to Sullivan’s “View from My Window”, since we’ve posted so many photos here of late. View from your Deck, Porch…whatever.
OK. I don’t have the equipment that Noch and Froggy have, but after all the gloom and doom lately, I thought a nice picture might bring a bit of cheer to the day.
I have no idea what kind of bird this is, but what drew my attention to it was a unique bird call that sounded more like a toy than anything else. I turned to see if I could figure out what was making it, and this bird was sitting on my deck. I grabbed my camera and used the zoom to capture it, lest I spook it. As soon as I snapped it, I did try to get a closer pic, but the minute I moved he (she?) took off.
Fleeting proof that, yes Virginia, spring does come to Michigan…eventually.
Enjoy.
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I was gone, now I’m back to say g’nite moonbats…..heh.
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G’night friends.
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April 18th, 2009 at 9:24 pm
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night mum
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April 18th, 2009 at 9:31 pm
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Be well.
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Good night, friends! Sleep well.
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April 18th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
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btw – just sneaked a look at Huffpo — Calif. unemployment rate at 11.2 percent. More bad news.
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April 18th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
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Ha! Ours is 12.8%.
Suck on it, SoCal!
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April 18th, 2009 at 8:40 pm
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Sheesh – and why wasn’t that front page for HuffPo?!!!!
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April 18th, 2009 at 8:42 pm
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I just survived a 15% or so staff cut at my current job. :whew:
Congrats MI!
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April 18th, 2009 at 8:43 pm
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Yep… we excel at unemployment!
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April 18th, 2009 at 8:44 pm
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Well, at least we are good at something.
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April 18th, 2009 at 9:03 pm
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That and the lakes…
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April 18th, 2009 at 9:06 pm
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Certainly not NFL football.
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April 18th, 2009 at 9:13 pm
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LOL! Definitely not the NFl unless of course you consider a totally losing season as something to talk about…
Now about those Wings… beat Columbus again tonight….
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April 18th, 2009 at 9:19 pm
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I DO miss hockey. So much…
I can’t find any good 35-and-over leagues out here. I tried skating with the kids, but they are too much for me nowadays.
Go WINGS!
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April 18th, 2009 at 9:23 pm
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That reminds me, I used to have a roommate that had a cockatiel. I tought him to do the “let’s go Red Wings” chant. It was pretty hilarious while we gathered around the TV to watch the playoffs.
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April 18th, 2009 at 8:42 pm
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Goodnight.. they have a ways to go to catch up to Michigan…
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April 18th, 2009 at 8:54 pm
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Just posted on HuffPO:
Think these figures are bad? You don’t know the half of it…or actually, you do because the real unemployment numbers ARE DOUBLE of what is being represented.
Shocking, our government misrepresenting bad news to us? Anyone remember, “The fundamentals of the economy are strong” too?
The way that unemployment figures are calculated have been severely manipulated since Ronald Reagan and sustained or further corrupted by every proceeding president.
Using the same standards for measuring unemployment as was in effect when Ronald Reagan was first elected, the current unemployment rate nationally today is in the ballpark of 20%.
Details can be found here: http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data
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April 18th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
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Harper’s had a good article about that too.
http://harpers.org/archive/2008/05/0082023
Imagine the chaos out of the teabaggers if we switched back to the accurate way of reporting the data.
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April 18th, 2009 at 9:01 pm
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Haven’t read it all yet but excellent article! Thanks!
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April 18th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
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You betcha.
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April 18th, 2009 at 9:05 pm
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I always thought it was odd that they did not include the unemployed whose benefits run out as among the unemployed…
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April 18th, 2009 at 9:23 pm
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That was either a Reagan or Clinton tweak on how the numbers are calculated.
Knock those who ran out of UI payments from calculations.
Another great one is not counting any military who are discharged from service in any way. They’re invisible, they go from “working” for our military to just disappearing.
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April 18th, 2009 at 9:24 pm
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At least they appear to be keeping figures on homeless Vets now. Or estimates, at least.
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April 18th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
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Peas be with you.
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April 18th, 2009 at 9:24 pm
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Nyt MH
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I’m from Montague, 15 mi north of Muskegon, btw.
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April 18th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
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Huh. Interesting.
Anything north of Muskegon is considered by me to be “God’s Country”.
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April 18th, 2009 at 8:07 pm
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You said it, doll.
Are you anywhere that I may have heard of?
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April 18th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
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Yeppers. South of Muskegon near Holland way.
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April 18th, 2009 at 10:12 pm
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TULIPS!!!!!!!!!
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April 18th, 2009 at 8:33 pm
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All my favorite people are from Michigan… We fucking rock!
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April 18th, 2009 at 8:41 pm
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April 18th, 2009 at 8:43 pm
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You’re making me homesick.
THIS Michigander will be sipping margaritas on the white sands of Lake Michigan when he retires. Just ten more years of DALLAS and I can leave the land of conservative “values”.
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April 18th, 2009 at 8:03 pm
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My first few years out here in L.A., I used to think about going back home to MI some day. But now I just don’t think I want to leave SoCal.
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April 18th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
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Hubby is from SoCal. Sometimes he misses it – like when it’s snowing here.
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April 18th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
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Thanks for that photo, btw! I heard the frogs outside in the woods when I was picking up my daughter from her friend’s. Sounds of summer!
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April 18th, 2009 at 8:06 pm
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I’m not partial to SoCal. I love the SF area.
But MI is still home and always will be. I’ll have to keep a place here in Big D but only to keep peace with my Dallasite wife.
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April 18th, 2009 at 8:06 pm
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SoCal is beautiful, no doubt about it. A bit pricey and overcrowded, though (at least for me).
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April 18th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
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Indeed. But once you get used to it…
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April 18th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
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Yeah — I lived in Santa Barbara for eight years. Talk about paradise. Fig tree in the back yard, grapes growing on the fences, farmers’ market twice a week – ocean, mountains — nice. And a trip to LA every now and then to the art museum.
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April 18th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
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Oh, then you know.
I’m not a particularly “hearty” midwesterner. Growing up in Detroit, I had chronic sinusitis and got sick all the time. The coastal climate has worked wonders for me.
(An in L.A., you can find a farmer’s market somewhere 7 days a week!)
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April 18th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
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Ah – then the climate would be a nice (and necessary) change! Me – growing up in MT – I missed the seasons when I was in SB. I don’t mind the winters here. But I could sure do without the humidity and the _mosquitoes_. Argh!
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April 18th, 2009 at 8:45 pm
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OH YEAH. Forgot about that. We’re close enough to the ocean that there are very few skeeters. I’m not certain of the science behind that, but I think it has to do with the breeze.
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April 18th, 2009 at 9:06 pm
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The air around Detroit is awful… The only time I can really breathe well is when I visit the Frog in Alabama…
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April 18th, 2009 at 8:07 pm
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Well, if you are going to live on Lake Michigan, then you will just be moving to another land of conservative “values”.
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April 18th, 2009 at 8:22 pm
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My best friend and his wife own the cabin directly on the lake. My place will be a short walk through the woods. We are like-minded and can actually find quite a few who are also. Screw the rest of them. I’ll be retired, have some money and won’t give a shit what the rest think.
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April 18th, 2009 at 8:27 pm
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That sounds _perfect_.
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April 18th, 2009 at 8:07 pm
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I had never been to Lake Michigan until I moved out here to NE Indiana. I was amazed when I saw it. It’s just like the ocean — and the beach was lovely! We try to get out there a couple times each summer.
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April 18th, 2009 at 8:09 pm
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Lake Superior is amazingly beautiful as well.
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April 18th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
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I’ll remember that.
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April 18th, 2009 at 8:27 pm
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Of course, up ‘dere in da Yoop (U.P.) dey call us trolls. Because we live under da bridge.
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April 18th, 2009 at 9:07 pm
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Damn Yoopers!
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April 18th, 2009 at 9:09 pm
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Nobody makes better smoked whitefish and assorted jerkies, than da yoopers, though.
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April 18th, 2009 at 9:16 pm
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Very, very true… The UP has a lot going for it besides being amazingly beautiful…
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April 18th, 2009 at 8:46 pm
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Amazingly beautiful is an understatement…
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April 18th, 2009 at 8:43 pm
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To call it a “lake” is an understatement, though technically accurate.
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April 18th, 2009 at 9:09 pm
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If they can call Lake St. Clair a lake, even though it is technically a flat, they can call anything a lake…
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The view from my front window is an apartment building next door, and the view out the back is the back of a Mexican restaurant and the back of a billboard. *sigh*
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Cheers for sharing that refreshing view. Man it’s getting heavy lately for no fault of FRT bloggers but because we are facing a tough reality these days. In bad times we have to remember the good things in life just to keep us going sometimes.
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April 18th, 2009 at 8:12 pm
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You’re so right, KQuarks.
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Oh hey… did you guys have as nice of weather as we did on this side of the state…. It was a gorgeous day! I just ran out to my car in bare feet and got quite the giggle from it….
Winter is soon to be gone!
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April 18th, 2009 at 7:07 pm
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Oh, it was gorgeous here. Damn near 70, nice little breeze. Opened nearly all the windows in my house to enjoy the air.
Had to go to the store earlier today – smelled like burning asphalt outside.
Ah…reminded me of summer.
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April 18th, 2009 at 7:23 pm
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that fresh air in the house is amazingly stimulative, no?
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April 18th, 2009 at 7:34 pm
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Yes ma’am.
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April 18th, 2009 at 7:23 pm
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85 here. Fired up the solar on the pool
saw the first Dragonflies — they are beautiful
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April 18th, 2009 at 7:29 pm
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I think it *might* have hit 80 out here by the beach, too. It was a beautiful day.
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So cute… and I must say all I have is a little Pentax digital camera that I can stick in my pocket… I know pretty much nothing about photography except for the very basics, I just set it for automatic and hope for the best….
Froggie is the professional photographer with all the nifty equipment, and much to his chagrin I am happy with the point and shoot theory of luck…
You did a fine job…
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April 18th, 2009 at 7:06 pm
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Thanks much.
I aspire to be an amateur photog someday. I was hoping to win an SLR camera from a parenting magazine that I subscribe to (they hold an annual photography contest) but I doubt I will.
Right now, I have a Kodak Easyshare 14 mp with a 5x digital zoom. It’s my third Kodak, great little cameras for the price, IMO. Much happier with my 14 mp than my 8.2 mp it replaced.
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April 18th, 2009 at 7:30 pm
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I’m partial to Nikon. Even their inexpensive stuff take great pics.
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April 18th, 2009 at 8:38 pm
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I get lucky 99% of the time… but Froggie taught me basics in Photoshop and that has added a bit of fun to photography…
I bet if you asked the Frog for some advice and help about your photography he would be more than happy to help you… When my sister-in-law decided to get serious about her photography Froggie gave her so much help and advice that now she is actually earning money by doing photography….
Just ask him anything you need to know… He love photography and while this may be a biased opinion, I think he is a brilliant photographer…
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I love it! Great idea Mom. View From Your Window and Mental Health Break keep me coming back to The Dish on a Daily basis!
I posted my tangerine tree a couple of weeks ago with the same thought in mind!!!!
Thanks for sharing
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