More memories, going back a couple of years ago, prior to living in Traverse City, we would come up to play in the local parks and Clinch Park on West Grand Traverse Bay was the best to fly kites at.  Never busy during the week and lots of wind.

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The dining room ceiling is equally spaced and the outlet for the light fixture is in the exact center of the room which was great when it was just the table and six chairs.  Now add a buffet and hutch (table now has to slide over) and yup the fixture is no longer in the center of the table.  Well that little OCD demon in my brain would poke me every time I walked by the room, it would yell “hey asshole that light isn’t centered”.  Yikes!  I couldn’t stand it any longer and purchased a new light fixture, with a chain, that can now be centered and I like it a lot and I can sleep at night.

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Speaking of wall murals, while I was placing my order for the bathroom mural I also purchased a new mural for the workout room downstairs.  It really adds some life to the room which now has prompted me to find a couple more to add to the space.  Oh the mirrored wall is also new.  Can’t say that I like seeing myself in it while working out but it just may give me a little added incentive to keep up the exercise routine.

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A few years back I added a couple of wall murals to my place downstate and I really liked the way they looked so when I renovated this place I added one of the same wall murals to the master bathroom and it complimented the black and white theme nicely.

IMG_0071a  Now I wanted to add another mural to the opposite wall but couldn’t find anything online so I got ahold of customer service at Easy Wallz and Wendy was able to give me some suggestions that might work.  Two weeks later and the opposite wall is finished and goes quite well with the first.

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This year I put out a suet feeder and a seed feeder for the birds.  I had seen woodpeckers feeding on the suet but was surprised to see a Pileated Woodpecker hanging upside down feeding on the suet.  The Michigan bird book indicates that they can grow up to 19-20 inches tall and these guys are all of that if not more.  Not the best video but you can make out mom feeding and her offspring waiting to be fed on the ground and she will come down and feed him/her on the ground.  She has since trained the kid to feed from the caged feeder as well… too cute.  Glad that I put them up.

Last summer I planted a couple of Hibiscus plants that did relatively well do I decided that I would get a couple more for this year.  These guys have a ton of blooms and the color has been attracting the humming birds.  Way to cool.

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Back in the early 80’s a movie with Richard Gere, American Gigolo, was at the theaters (which who wouldn’t want to see a move staring Mr. Gere) anyway a scene in the movie had him hanging upside down while wearing a pair of inversion boots.  I was instantly obsessed and had to have a pair.  Took me awhile to find them and if I remember correctly I paid way too much for them, but after installing a chin-up bar in the hallway I couldn’t have been happier.  I had those things on my legs daily pretending I was getting ready for my own movie!

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So move a head a few years (okay a few decades) and what comes up on Amazon suggestive sell page but a new pair of inversion boots.  Moves a pair to the cart… also searches for a stand alone chin-up bar… moves one of those to the cart… hits purchase and patiently awaits for the UPS delivery.  Merchandise arrives, bar is assembled and placed outside for now and inversion boots are ready to be placed on the legs for a quick tryout.  I actually made it this far before reality kicked in and it dawned on me that hanging upside down on a bar with inversion boots might not be the most practical exercise to attempt with a hip replacement.  Oh well so much for reliving the past. LOL

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