This has been in the back o' my mind for some time now, and that's the fact that I am the ONLY person in my block of eight apartments in two separate buildings who EVER opens his blinds. I emphasized "ever" for a reason... because I have NEVER seen any other apartment with open blinds. Is that strange, or am **I** the weird one here?
The sun streaming in my windows has a positive effect on my mood and it also has another effect when the WX turns cold: free solar heating. Like this:
I was gonna post a "blinds drawn" illustration but a Google image search didn't discover anythang I thought was suitable, so ya get me sitting in my sunlit office. Lucky you.
The sun streaming in my windows has a positive effect on my mood and it also has another effect when the WX turns cold: free solar heating. Like this:
I was gonna post a "blinds drawn" illustration but a Google image search didn't discover anythang I thought was suitable, so ya get me sitting in my sunlit office. Lucky you.
I keep blinds closed when I am elsewhere. Perhaps they are at work? Otherwise, privacy comes to mind, maybe they like walking around au naturel. Heheh.
ReplyDeleteSun is good. The kittehs like the windows being open. They are now on winter schedule, so they go from window to window looking for summer.
"At work" answers the mail for most of the day... but not on weekends, during the summer (long days/evenings), or at other times when I know there are folks at home coz their cars are there. Yer other explanation might be somewhat viable, too.
DeleteThey could be vampires. Keep you eyes open. We too favor open blinds and lots of free solar hearing, especially in the winter. It brightens the mood too!
ReplyDeleteVampires are a distinct possibility in at least two of seven cases. ;-)
DeleteI hate it when somebody makes the radio call; "Vampires!" Makes me duck and turn off all radiating equipment. Have Virgil Xenodude explain...
DeleteYou've been to my house and know that I like windows and sunlight. We didn't even have blinds on the windows until last year and that was mostly due to the dumb-ass neighbor with his big-ass lights. I still keep the blindx open, and I do walk around au naturel. But if the neighbor sees me, well, I doubt he would continue looking.
ReplyDeleteI know some folk who keep window shades closed - all the time. I don't get it either.
I always draw the blinds at night, not for the big-ass lights but for modesty's sake. ;-)
DeleteYou have beautiful fenestration in your house, Lou.
Outside is where people go to get hurt.
ReplyDeleteAnd make money, too.
DeleteNo comment on the blinds, but it's a great shot of you. You look so damn contented. By the way, how's the mouth doing?
ReplyDeleteI still only have three teeth in my lower jaw and the project won't be completed until mid-January. Other than that, life's a bowl o' cherries. That I can't eat very well. ;-)
DeleteYour neighbors must all be retired USAF ex-Command Post types, Buck. EVERY single AF Wing CP/Ops Ctr I was EVER in (save one) was darker than the Bat Cave. How that tradition got started and why I don't know. When the Marines built the new DASC for the AF at Camp Horn in DaNang the O-6 AF DASC Director specifically demanded bright lighting ("why the hell should everyone always stumble around in the darK?" he supposedly muttered out loud.) and used a plexiglass backlit status board using florescent grease-pencil and everyone could see 'jes fine" w. no glare.
ReplyDeleteMe? OK, I'll admit it, I LIKE to watch TV in total darkness like a bat. Only problem is, my wife HATES it. But blinds drawn all day every day? 'Ti a puzzlement. One of the advantages growing up in a Frank-Lloyd Wright Calif. Ranch-style house were the shoulder-high horizontal windows in the bed & bathrooms--could leave drapes/curtains wide open and walk around buck nikkid if one so desired--and the living room, although having floor-to-ceiling windows, looked out onto a pvt fenced back yard, so one could have plenty of light and privacy as well..
Yeah, I never got that "in the dark" thing either. Our ops Battle Staff rooms at the old Mode III manual radar sites were all pitch black, too... only lit with the glow of the radar PPIs (green) and RHIs (orange) plus the floor-to-ceiling plotting board, which was lit from underneath. Very Strangelovian.
DeleteI almost bought an FLW-inspired house (in his Prairie School style) in Dee-troit in the way-back. The only things that stopped us were (a) the house we owned/lived in was more than adequate and (b) the house we were thinking about buying needed about $20K worth o' renovations. But it sure was beautiful...