Homegate: Thursday Doors Apr 28/2016

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(Click to enlarge.  Most of you know this but new viewers might not so I’ll keep stating the obvious!!)

I just realized that I have twenty doors or gates in my house! This is just doors to the outside..not room doors within the house. (This includes gates, garage, studio, laundry room, bodega and casita.  The main house has only ten, but some rooms have three exits to the outside!)  Perhaps I’ll show a view through each one. Trying to keep track of that many keys is a nightmare.  Before I went to the beach, I must have hidden my “extras” as I haven’t been able to find them since.  No, my house really isn’t that big. It is just that it has lots of doors. (i.e. from where I am sitting at the desk in my living room, I can see six doors to the outside. Someone who planned this house must have needed a fast escape route!)  At any rate, here are two.  Click on them to enlarge..

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My blog, which started out to be about overcoming grief, quickly grew into a blog about celebrating life. I post daily: poems, photographs, essays or stories. I've lived in countries all around the globe but have finally come to rest in Mexico, where I've lived since 2001. My books may be found on Amazon in Kindle and print format, my art in local Ajijic galleries. Hope to see you at my blog.

12 thoughts on “Homegate: Thursday Doors Apr 28/2016”

    1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

      Nope, as I said in the text, it isn’t that the house is that large…It just has an incredible number of doors to the outside. And many gates necessary to contain the doggies in different parts of the yard while workmen are here.. or when they need to be separated because of illness or surgery or cones of shame, or. . . I had to add two gates when Morrie was isolated from the other dogs for awhile. Life is complicated.

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    1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

      Only two of those doors open with the same key, Miriam. It’s crazy. All of the sliding glass doors and the gates have different keys..I tried to get them keyed the same. Not possible. I have a color coding system that worked–until I forgot where I hid my key stash the last time I traveled. Oy. I do have at least one key to each door–except for a few of the gates I never lock anyway, just latch to keep dogs contained. I thought I was simplifying when I moved to Mexico, but there are two things Mexican builders seem to love to add in excess: doors and bathrooms.

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      1. Miriam's avatarMiriam

        Oh wow, that is simply crazy. I’ve only got about 6 doors with different keys to many of those and I thought that was hard enough. Sounds like a color coded maze of biblical proportions! 🙂

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        1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

          You’d think I’d run out of colors, right?
          Some aren’t color coded but are instead distinctive shapes and some I just keep in a place where I know where they are–near the door. Others have unusual keychains. I think I’ve delaying Alzheimer’s considerably just by having to remember what goes where. Wish I could do as well with my car keys and glasses.

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  4. Norm 3.0's avatarNorm 2.0

    Good post and I like the idea of looking inward, so to speak. It reminds me I should get around to counting how many doors we have in our house. Unfortunately aside from the main entrance and garage door all the others a plain to the point of being boring.

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    1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

      In both of these shots it is really the plants that make them, I think. You shoot such beautiful doors themselves..I think I tend to shoot what the doors open in to or out to…and you touch on an interesting point, Norm I think most of my writing also is a look inward and perhaps these door photos, as you say, do the same.

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