| abandoned | fading lifestyle, expectations, social connections |
| cold, smokeless chimneys | smiles depleted, hearts stalled |
| sagging porch | gravity’s relentless vanquish |
| boarded windows | shaded, sightless perception |
| sinking foundation | dreams wheezing |
| discolored clapboard | wrinkly, splotched |
| deteriorated add-on | hobbies receding |
| curtainless | vulnerable |
| peeling columns | shedding facades |
| doghouse twin | feeble, needy pet |
| new front door | keeping hope alive |
I tried to create this table in my word processing program and paste it whole. I’m using the table feature at WP but it gives no option to remove the lines. One of these days I’ll figure it out…
Carrie is today’s host of The Sunday Muse.
Tao Talk 
Oh wow. I love this, lines and all. 🙏 “Dreams wheezing”…. Then along comes a new front door.
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Thank you, MW, am happy you enjoyed it ❤ 🙂
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I love the life you have truly given this house Lisa! What a clever and creative take on the prompt! So glad to see you and I hope you have a wonderful weekend!
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Many thanks, Carrie. Hope you do also!
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I too really like the dreams wheezing….and am worried about the dog – did he get left behind? Smiles.
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Thanks, Sherry. I’m writing as if the house is still occupied, just a little run-down. I’m imagining the dog curled up next to his mistress on a cozy crocheted afghan on the couch 🙂
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Love that when all was said and done …. you saw potential. A clever response to Ms. Muse.
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Helen, thank you very much. The more I looked at the house the more I saw myself in it.
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I thought it was cool even with the grid lines!
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q, thank you!!!
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I have also been meaning to tell you how lovely your blog design is …..
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Oh, hey, thanks!!
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I think you meant this for @msjadeli!
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Helen is this comment to me?
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I saw no lines, so I’m a bit confused. I loved that every detail was noted…and the new front door is hopeful!
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Glad you didn’t see the lines, Beverly. Maybe blogger doesn’t show them? Thank you for your lovely comment.
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Love this!
I think I would have done it in Powerpoint and just included it as a jpg image 😉
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Thanks for the tip, Dale! I don’t think I have powerpoint on this computer but I could have sent it to my son to do it for me. Will remember for next time 🙂
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Can also be done on Word or even Excel. 🙂
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I don’t have the suite. I use a knock off word processing program (Open Office.)
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Should still work as they have all the same capacities.. You can save whatever into a pdf or JPG.
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I tried as jpg and it didn’t work. PDF seems like it would work. Thanks, will let you know.
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Do! I’m curious now!
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I tried last night. It does show up, but as a link, which is strange to me. It did the same thing with the jpg. I’m trying to put it in through the pictures button. I tried a screen capture also but it wouldn’t work. So frustrating.
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Dang. I thought for sure you could insert it in a picture box. When you screen capture, can’t you save it as a jpg?
Ask my why I’m avoiding the block editor like the plague…
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The screen capture option doesn’t even show up to use for it. I appreciate you trying to help, Dale. Thank you ❤
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Do you have “snip it”?
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I just downloaded a screen capture program that works in websites but it doesn’t work on documents not on websites. If I “snip it” on the website it has the lines in it, which defeats the intent.
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Well, damn it all to hell… Not for lack of trying, eh?
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I like the lines, of course I am a retired engineer, we like lines to help keep things straight. As I read I figured too that there was vandalism and theft as well. My parents old house had all the cupboards stolen, the windows broken, and left behind things pilfered. I am seeing a lot of bricks that would make a nice sidewalk or another chimney for the thieves’ houses…
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Thank you very much, Jim for your comment. So said not only to be abandoned but vandalized 😦
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well i’ve never read a spreadsheet poem before, very cool! loved that last line
“new front door / keeping hope alive
very well done
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aha! a new form is born! lol. So glad you enjoyed it, Phillip, thank you.
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Luther Vandross’ lyrics “but a house is not a home . . .” leapt to mind as I read your title, Lisa. Beautiful song if you’ve not heard it. Great post as always! 🌞
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Lisa, I have heard that song and I love the way he sings it. I still miss his presence in this world. Thank you, glad you enjoyed the poem.
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I miss him, too, Lisa. So much more than other performers who have passed on. There was just something about him . . . 🌞
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Heads up for the wrecking ball.
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🙂 Thanks, Shay!
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TLC–what we all need, houses and humans alike. (K)
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Indeed ❤
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I love what you did here.
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Ron, thank you. Also liking following along with you and your wife in photos of your journey.
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Nice one! I didn’t even realise there was a table option in wp! X
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Carol anne, it’s a relatively new feature.
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Your house really has come to life – brilliant idea Lisa.
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Marion, thank you, glad you liked the experiment.
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Enjoyed the way you formatted this and, for me, the lines added to the sense of balance/calculation in the description of the home. The value or the challenges linked to the physicality reminded me of some of the homes we pass on our drive from suburb to suburb here…homes that seemed to be in the middle of nowhere (and, well, still are…but it’s a busy nowhere) but where, in reality, in the middle of small towns and farmland now subsumed. Anyway, really enjoyed this.
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Wyndolynne, it does feel like some places (and people) are simply left behind. Glad you enjoyed the poem and thanks for your lovely comment ❤
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The lines work. I really like the chart and I appreciate your work here.
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Thank you, Sarah. I like the name of your blog. Does this mean you are a cowgirl who also does yoga? If so, very cool.
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That’s me…I teach yoga to college students, practice yoga, work full time and spend my weekend in the woods on a horse or my two feet or on a lake on a paddle board.
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🙂
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Bravo, you certainly wrote ‘outside the box’. Luv it
Thanks for dropping by my blog
Much💖love
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Thanks much, Gillena! ❤
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Quite an interesting approach. I love “…gravity’s relentless vanquish..” and the slow relentless listing of adjectives which becomes an overwhelming image of time’s inexorable march. But the new door gives hope.
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Thank you, Hedgewitch.
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Fascinating format you have used….. and dare I say it fits the content to a tee!
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Thank you very much, AJ 🙂
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An empty house is a sad house…if only they could talk.
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This is fascinating! What an awesome look into your creative process. Thank you for sharing!
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Thank you very much, Sunny 🙂
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