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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Oct 29, 2018 - 09:51pm PT
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It’s cheaper to rent, that way the view changes.
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ECF
Big Wall climber
Ridgway CO
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Oct 29, 2018 - 10:10pm PT
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My Ouray view
The couch in Colona
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DonC
climber
CA
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Oct 29, 2018 - 10:26pm PT
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from my easy chair, nice view of Mt Humphreys above Bishop
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Contractor
Boulder climber
CA
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Oct 30, 2018 - 06:04am PT
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The lost battle I'm referring to is the knickknack battle. That's part of your view, right? How do you dust or do you just wipe around the edges?
It's actually a sign of a full life. A curio here and a souvenir there, brought home and displayed to capture a memory.
Nonetheless, it's a battle. Ive done the math for my wife:
1.7 knickknacks per trip x 2.1 trips per year x 30 years of trips = 107.1 knickknacks!
I've fought to keep my spaces simple and spartan but my wife is slowly overwhelming me. The curios, family photos and trinkets are slowly amassing. My dream of an austere Japanese style interior is slowly morphing into a Turkish bazaar.
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Q- Ball
Mountain climber
but to scared to climb them anymore
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Oct 30, 2018 - 06:25am PT
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Sunrise at the coffee farm! Never gets old!
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 30, 2018 - 07:02am PT
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Great photos folks! Views to envy, for sure!
Contractor! Re your mention:
The lost battle I'm referring to is the knickknack battle. That's part of your view, right? How do you dust or do you just wipe around the edges?
Sigh. Yeah, about 10 years back, after a lifetime of collecting antiques & mineral specimens aka rocks, my wife & I decided it was time to start letting go, before we became defined as hoarders.
We rented a 8' x 8' display case in a Boise antique mall & started selling on EBay. Unfortunately I did so well selling higher end pre-1900 bottles, I bought more, lots more, on line during the bargain times of the 2008-09 recession. Then my bottle sales tanked, but mineral sales picked up & I started buying minerals to sell online & at the Tucson Gem & Mineral show.
Meanwhile Heidi had sold most of my mother's hoarde of costume jewelery, but kept collecting & selling antique purses & compacts, until the bottom fell out of that market.
We did two outside antique sales in the Boise Antique mall parking lot this summer, which helped substantially reduce the several hundred low-interest pre-1900 bottles I had retained from childhood bottle digs, & also got rid of a bunch of other stuff at bargain prices for the public.
So------the end is in sight! Another 10 or so years of selling the stuff will likely see most all of it gone. I just need to quit bringing home mineral specimens.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 30, 2018 - 07:12am PT
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I haven't a television but if I had, The View would be on every day. I love those gals.
Warbler feels different, but hey, different strokes, right?
Pet Rocks are more my thing, Fritz.
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ECF
Big Wall climber
Ridgway CO
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Oct 30, 2018 - 07:41am PT
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Well, so much for “take nothing but pictures”...
So everywhere you go, you strip the earth of it’s interesting rocks?
Yeah, they are so much more interesting in your living room than in situ in nature.
But this way, everyone gets to enjoy them...
Put them back where you got them, or just admit you are a selfish person who doesn’t really care about other people’s experience on this planet.
I have noticed you are quick to post opinions of moral certitude, but lack the sauce to back it up. By your own admission, you make a practice out of making the world a less beautiful and interesting place.
Stop it.
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Contractor
Boulder climber
CA
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Oct 30, 2018 - 07:44am PT
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Well Fritz, your knickknacks are in good taste and each a little prism to another time and another place.
Our hand carved, condiment bowl set from Costa Rica often reminds me of how my wife completely blew me off in that curio shop near San Jose. I may have even recited my knickknack formula to no avail.
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 30, 2018 - 07:51am PT
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ECF! My, my my.
Most all of my mineral collecting is at obscure old mines, where the crystallized specimens I like, were not of interest to the miners.
I haven't noted eco-tourists wandering those mines admiring the admittedly hard to find specimens I cruelly steal from the American people.
Just as soon as I see them, I'll give my specimens to them.
By the way, people that think like you, are a major source of amusement to geologists.
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Hardman Knott
Gym climber
Mill Valley, Ca
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Oct 30, 2018 - 08:43am PT
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From my couch just now:
(OK I lied - standing up from the couch)
The trees below those in the foreground are of Muir Woods; the ridge line just behind the big tree on the right is Pantoll Ranger Station / Mt Tam
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Aeriq
Social climber
Location: It's a MisterE
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Oct 30, 2018 - 05:07pm PT
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OK, I will just lie.
But it does tell a story about finding home:
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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^^^
Dude! Get with the program! That picture needs a cocktail, STAT!!!
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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Out my front door-
Out the dining area window
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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I have a home theater, no windows.
But outside I can see the Tushers.
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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Here’s mine...
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SuperTopo on the Web
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Clean desk and an empty calendar: just the way I like it! 
Let us know!