Short Film

Beautifully, bookish short film... (via Epbot)

Owwwwl

Baby, baby, baby

I wanted to share this.

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The camera is set up in a neighboring town.  I have been watching off and on for three weeks or so.  There are three eggs under there and the momma & daddy rotate warming duties.  The eggs are due to hatch any day now.

Sweetness

The story of Jonah from Corinth Baptist Church on Vimeo.

Something I have been hoping for . . .

Reader catch up

I just caught up on my reader feeds and thought I would share a few . . . a couple videos, a couple money-saving tips, and a little brain tease:

1.) This is very interesting -- especially since there are about 1,581,571,589 internet users worldwide today . . .

2.) A little bit of fun . . .

Bubblicious from Rex The Dog on Vimeo.

3.) Frugal relationship ideas -- money not emotions!

4.) Very useful financial checklist

5.) How observant are you? (I hate to say it but didn't do very well on this one!)

LOL - Happy 4th!

A little boggling for the mind

Across the net

• Although I have watched the occasional Star Trek, I have never considered myself a Trekkie. I couldn't resist this little bit of fun (via ReadingAdventures)

I look pretty good as a starship officer . . .

• This sad and slightly disturbing story is from one of my news feeds.

And two fun videos (via mental_floss):

I would definitely go see this movie . . .

And a little sweetness . . .

From the web

I was going to post something completely banal about my flowerbeds but I just finished reading my daily reader feeds and thought I would share a couple things from today's reads instead. (Don't worry I will save my exciting flowerbeds for another day.)

First up, this list was linked via mental_floss. All the items on here are great things to know. I am sure I never new all of them when I was 18. And it is quite possible that I haven't grasped some of the concepts even today.

And then, I watched this video also linked via mental_floss:

Susan Boyle - 47-letnia śpiewaczka z brytyjskiej wersji "Mam
by luloczek

It made me laugh, it made me cry . . .

Tomorrow we will be back with our regularly (or maybe not so regularly) scheduled flowerbed.

A sound to make you smile

Things I like about this video:

• The song (of course)
  
  
• The unexpectedness of the moment(s)
  
  
• The SMILES on everyone's face -- makes me smile myself
  

Crack me up

(via Miss Cellania)

You Animal!

This weekend I rented the first season of the Muppet Show. I laughed and laughed and laughed.

Some of my favorite moments . . .

1. Animal
   
   
   
   
   
2. The Swedish Chef
   
   
   
   
   
3. The music?
   
   
   
   
   
4. A little drama
   
   
   
   
   
5. Statler and Waldorf
   
   
   
   

I only watched the first disc of the first season and I can't wait to watch the rest.

I think these are some DVDs I might have to add to my collection!

Doing my dance of Joy

I have been looking for a site that I can store recipes on. I was using Better Homes and Gardens but when they switch site designs all my recipes were deleted. I was disappointed but not devastated.

So today I started to do some serious searching and found this website. You can search and store recipes as well as connect with other foodie-types. PLUS, look at this:

No, I have no particular love or hate for this recipe -- it simply happens to be the first entry into my KeyIngredient account. Yea!

And, get this, and it has a wonderful little print function so I can print it out very nicely if I would like.

This completely made my day!

Duck, duck , GOOSE!

This past weekend some friends and I went out-of-town for the afternoon and on the way home we stopped at a duck pond.


The ducks were showoffs.


And very clean! :-)

There was also a goose there. He was injured. He only put his left foot in the water and not his leg because he had some kind of boo boo on his leg. He listed to the right as he swam through the water.

The right fight

One of the reasons I love reading and stories is they help me to visualize what my own responses might be in a similar circumstance.

This past weekend I watched my favorite western -- High Noon with Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly.

The plot: As retired marshall Will Kane leaves town with his new wife he receives the news that Frank Miller, a man he sent to prison, is on his way back to town on the noon train. Before he went to prison Miller had vowed to get his revenge.

The marshall has to choose whether to stay and do the right thing. Or leave.

The movie paces quickly even with all the dialogue. It has good guys, bad guys, and everything in between. A little romance and a lot of conviction.



One of the major themes throughout this film is following your convictions -- doing what is right because it's right.

It reminded me of Daniel. A man who defied a law enacted by a group of advisors jealous of the power the king had given him and who wanted Daniel severely punished. A man who did right because it was right despite the consequences. A man who did the hard thing.

Now when Daniel knew that the document was signed, he entered his house (now in his roof chamber he had windows open toward Jerusalem); and he continued kneeling on his knees three times a day, praying and giving thanks before his God, as he had been doing previously. Daniel 6:10

I think sometimes it is just easier for me to do the easy thing. Whether it is the right thing or not. I like things to be easy . . . unfortunately they are not.

My goal is to strive to do what is right because it is right and not because it is easy or hard. Not because everyone or no one is doing it.

Because it is right.

Do the Duck Dance

These are the commuter ducks from my parents farm. The commute to the farm from the neighbors then go home at night . . . usually.

Looks to me like they may start a dance craze.

Just for fun

A little 4th of July fun!

Animal Menagerie

These are some baby robins that were living on my friends balcony this spring.

Cleo enjoying the spring weather . . .

St. Patricks' Day

I have very little Irish in me. However, I couldn't resist this video: