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Garden gazing ball
« on: June 04, 2008, 11:29:48 AM »
I'm not a big fan of gazing ball generally, but my MIL got this one for my birthday last year and I really like it:  unusual colors and when the sun hits it it GLOWS.  Well, Maxwell is quite taken with the "cat" he sees in it.      lol      He walks around looking at the eyes looking back at him.  Thought you would enjoy him.
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Re: Garden gazing ball
« Reply #1 on: June 04, 2008, 12:07:27 PM »
LOL! That's really cute. The ball is pretty cool too.
Its pointless to have those glass ones here because of the wind so I use bowling balls. :)
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Re: Garden gazing ball
« Reply #2 on: June 04, 2008, 03:30:37 PM »
Too cute.  He probably wonders why that cat don't want to play...LOL

I like the bowling ball one too.

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Re: Garden gazing ball
« Reply #3 on: June 04, 2008, 04:17:01 PM »
Shanna, I can't believe it hasn't been broken yet-with kids, dogs, cats, me, and extreme wind mostly always.  I am obsessive about running out before a storm in case of hail:  I'll probably trip and break the @#$%&*! thing  lol   I like the bowling ball one also!

Kim-he does wonder why that cat stares at him.  Maxwell doesn't meow, he chirps.  And when he sits there he chirps a lot! :D
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Re: Garden gazing ball
« Reply #4 on: June 04, 2008, 06:36:03 PM »
Very cute!

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Re: Garden gazing ball
« Reply #5 on: June 04, 2008, 06:44:07 PM »
I love it!  That is so cute!

(and I love the bowling ball one, too.  Great idea!)
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Re: Garden gazing ball
« Reply #6 on: June 04, 2008, 07:24:05 PM »
I love it when they make that sounds.  It cracks me up listening to our cats talk to the birds through the window.

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Re: Garden gazing ball
« Reply #7 on: June 04, 2008, 07:58:14 PM »
That is so cute. I love it when our pets do that. Birds like to look at a Soda can ("pop" here in the midwest) and talk to it.

I bought a bowling ball at a garage sale and haven't had the time to glue the glass blobs to it. Gosh I hope to do that before I die... Someday...
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Re: Garden gazing ball
« Reply #8 on: June 04, 2008, 08:18:17 PM »
That's a very cute picture, LuAnn...and your gazing ball is beautiful.  I got a "hand-blown glass" gazing ball for Mother's Day, and my first thought was "A glass gazing ball in Kansas??? :o"  Kansas is the third windiest state in the USA.  Patio furniture, flower pots, patio torches, tree limbs, etc. get blown over on a regular basis around here.   :-\

Needless to say, I haven't gotten it outside yet.  I'm going to find a very heavy concrete stand and glue the ball to the stand...and then pray.   lol

I love your bowling ball gazing ball, too, Shanna!  I've always wanted to do one of those. 

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Re: Garden gazing ball
« Reply #9 on: June 05, 2008, 05:40:41 AM »
That is so cute !
I like the metal gazing ball's .
The glass one's alway's end up broken.

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Re: Garden gazing ball
« Reply #10 on: June 05, 2008, 06:02:42 AM »
Great gazing ball and cute kitty. The bowling ball is neat too.

Sandye, I glued my gazing ball to a cement birdbath stand because the dogs smashed my first one.
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Re: Garden gazing ball
« Reply #11 on: June 05, 2008, 01:46:32 PM »
Those are both very nice....
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Re: Garden gazing ball
« Reply #12 on: June 05, 2008, 05:41:44 PM »
Yes I had a red one that cost $60. I use to run out and get it before a storm. So we stored it in the garage. I moved it from where my husbamd put it so it would not get broke. Well guess what? Yep he broke it after I moved it to be safe. Figures.
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Re: Garden gazing ball
« Reply #13 on: June 05, 2008, 06:29:38 PM »
Yup, that's what I'm afraid of too.  Notice in the pic DH nailed the base to a block of wood cuz it kept tipping over in the flower beds.  Blowing flowers would knock that thing over.  I don't know why they make such fragile stuff for outside--it's beautiful but I'm spending way too much time moving it around trying to keep it from being broken!  :D

I also had to add this picture--I caught Maxwell just sitting by the pickup.  This is the front bumper and DH has a chrome bumper on the back that he sits by and stares at himself.  He is such a meek and mild cat, never meows, never hisses, just follows me everywhere outside and sits and looks at his reflection every chance he gets.  What a funny little guy!  o(:-)


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Re: Garden gazing ball
« Reply #14 on: June 06, 2008, 02:35:05 PM »
That is a very pretty ball. I too have a couple of the bowling ball ones, the others wouldn't last long around here I'm afraid.
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Re: Garden gazing ball
« Reply #15 on: June 06, 2008, 03:50:56 PM »
What a funny cat! ;D He really loves to admire himself doesn't he. ;)

Another one of my bowling balls. I think you guys have seen this one before.
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Re: Garden gazing ball
« Reply #16 on: June 06, 2008, 05:19:20 PM »
Wonderful bowling balls and that is an incredible redish globe... one day a bowling ball will drop into my world so I can do one up :)
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Re: Garden gazing ball
« Reply #17 on: June 06, 2008, 08:09:15 PM »
Hey Kittyzee,

That is one funny cat. Very cute pic of him in front of the beautiful gazing ball, and now admiring himself in the bumper.

He's in love (:-) o(:-) o(:-)---with himself @O@ @O@

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Re: Garden gazing ball
« Reply #18 on: June 06, 2008, 08:29:43 PM »
He has a great personality that cat, if I'm sitting on the porch step putting on my shoes, he jumps up on my back and sits on my shoulders and sniffs my hair  lol   Romeo! 

Shanna, I LOVE that bowling ball with the coppery stand?  Wherever did you find that stand -- or did you make it?  :o
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