Sunday, October 08, 2023

The Sunday Five: Cats Eye Views 89


1: What is your favorite local view? 
2: What makes you look up when you go by? 
3: What do you hope to see in your lifetime? 
4: Do you wear eyeglasses or contacts? 
5: Do you think the cat is happy? 

My answers: 
1: What is your favorite local view? The Washington Monument and Jefferson Memorial from the Yellow Line train over the Potomac River. 
2: What makes you look up when you go by? The private jet center at the National Airport - I look to see how many planes are in today. 
3: What do you hope to see in your lifetime? Viena 
4: Do you wear eyeglasses or contacts? Glasses for about 30 years now.
5: Do you think the cat is happy? She/he appeared to be very happy. 

Please share your answers in the comments. 

18 comments:

  1. What is your favorite local view? When downtown, the State Capital Building.

    What makes you look up when you go by? The wonderful architecture.

    What do you hope to see in your lifetime? Peace and working together in politics.
    Do you wear eyeglasses or contacts? Readers, for very small fine print.
    Do you think the cat is happy? Yes, sure looks content.

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  2. 1: What is your favorite local view? I don't have just one.
    2: What makes you look up when you go by? Often, it's the monk parakeets.
    3: What do you hope to see in your lifetime? A better world than the one I see now.
    4: Do you wear eyeglasses or contacts? Eyeglasses for reading.
    5: Do you think the cat is happy? He sure looks that way.

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    1. Such great view where you live

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  3. 1. From my balcony.
    2. Tall buildings make me look up as a country bumpkin would when visiting a big city for the first time.
    3. Prague, but I've seen Budapest and Vienna and Vienna is not underrated.
    4. I wear glasses but my partner wears contacts when he is out. Once home he takes them out and puts on glasses.
    5. The cat is happy while it is hunting, as it clearly is.

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    1. I like tall buildings, DC is a short city.

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  4. 1. Sunset at Lake Erie
    2. Shirtless runners.
    3. I'd like to say 'world peace', but that seems unlikely.
    4. Glasses since 8th grade. I have contacts too, but rarely wear them.
    5. The cat is alert, but probably content

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    1. regarding #2, you are not dead yet

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  5. 1: What is your favorite local view? Driving along Knights Hill Road and through the steeplechase fields; a massive plot of land with the horse tracks, old trees and wide expanses of lawn.

    2: What makes you look up when you go by? Just the quiet and the occasional rider training their horse.

    3: What do you hope to see in your lifetime? Peace. Acceptance.

    4: Do you wear eyeglasses or contacts? I wear glasses.

    5: Do you think the cat is happy? She's in her element, so yes.

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    1. I didn't know there were horse farms in your area.

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    2. Camden is the Steeplechase Capital and we have lots of people from up north who winter down here and bring there horses.

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    3. I need to come down there someday.

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  6. 1: What is your favorite local view? The view from my friends Julie & Dave's house.
    2: What makes you look up when you go by? The sound of peach-faced lovebirds in the trees.
    3: What do you hope to see in your lifetime? Australia
    4: Do you wear eyeglasses or contacts? glasses to read
    5: Do you think the cat is happy? Yes

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  7. 1. My fave local view is the new Walterdale Bridge which has two soaring white arches -- beautiful to see and to drive over.
    2. What makes me look up as I drive by are beautiful autumn colours.
    3. In my lifetime, I hope to see the fall of right wing radicalism.
    4. Eyeglasses for 50 years now.
    5. Yes, the cat is happy to be outdoors and hunting something.

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    1. I think the cat was going fishing, or looking for rodents in the rocks.

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  8. 1: What is your favorite local view? watching the sun rise over the mountains
    2: What makes you look up when you go by? any shiny object really.
    3: What do you hope to see in your lifetime? retirement.
    4: Do you wear eyeglasses or contacts? the former.
    5: Do you think the cat is happy? That cat is up to no good that's certain.

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    1. Set a date, and call it quits.

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