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Hiding from someone? Get your own Ghillie suit

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Do you play paintball outdoors? Perhaps you’re a hunter or a member of the military? You’ve got to take a look at the ghillie suits offered by cheapest-ghillie-suits.com.

They sell everything from Special Ops Ghillie Suits for Hunters, Military, and Paintball. You can purchase full body suits, ponchos and accessories, as well as snipping and coverall suits.

I’d love to have one of these the next time I go and play paintball! It’d be totally cool. These ghillie suits are the perfect camouflage. No one would know I was there until they were right beside me! I’d finally have a chance of winning!

These Ghillie suits would also be perfect for hunters. My brother in law used to go duck hunting all the time and I’m sure he’d prefer a Ghillie suit to hiding behind a screen.

Visit the site to see the selection. The prices seem quite reasonable to me.






Hyacinth Macro

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Many of the regular readers of this site are gardeners, or gardener wannabe’s. Everyone seemed to love my close up photo of the coral colored Hyacinth in one of my recent posts.

I bet you didn’t know that I took it a step further and got even closer. Hyacinth flowers are each less than once inch wide, perhaps as small as half an inch wide. Here’s an extreme closeup of one single hyacinth blossom:

Coral Hyacinth

I got as close to the flower as I could and used the zoom function on my camera. Once I downloaded the photo to my computer I cropped the photo until I got the image you see above.

Interesting? Too close?

My turtles have adopted me

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Yesterday I was sitting at my desktop computer, minding my own business as I worked and I felt eyes staring at me. No it wasn’t my elderly neighbor peeking at me from her dining room window this time.

It was my box turtles!

closeupmyrtle

They often watch me as I work on the computer. Well, Spaz, the male box turtle is absolutely in love with Myrtle the female box turtles so he mostly stares at Myrtle. Myrtle on the other hand stares at me.

I’m starting to wonder if they think I’m a turtle too? I mean when I’m working away on the computer I don’t move all that much more than they do. Yes, I get up and make myself a drink every now and then or take a washroom break, but when I’m working I’m often at the computer for hours.

It can’t be all that exciting to watch me work, but I guess I’m the only entertainment my turtles have most of the time.

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