More minion love

Feeling  the tiniest bit better from this dreadful head cold.
Found this today when I dragged myself to the computer.
I now have a minon of my very own!!!

Hitech

Pôneis Malditos!

Love them minions...

Saw Despicable Me a while ago.
I loved the movie, especially for the army of minions... just loved those little yellow fellows!

Eclipse

First in a brand new saros cycle today, the eclipse was near Antarctica, and over the next 18 years-plus will wend it's way up to the Arctic.

 

Astronomers Studying an Eclipse painted by Antoine Caron in 1571

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Itsy-ibtsy-teensy-weensy

As I've said: love those teeny houses, buuuuut...

A house I'd love to fit in!

Actually, the laundry of Withy Mills Farm!!!

To see to what heights, or smalls, an itsy-ibtsy-teensy-weensy cottage/house obsession can take you!
(There's always the addendum: just make it a little larger and...)

Gaga

I do believe I'm going rather gaga, as I'm finding the ads on tv much more entertaining than the programs, and (this the gaga part) actually talk about them to my friends!

The Secret Life of Chaos

More Hobbity...

Of course, coming across those photos yesterday set me off on another safari for hobbity houses....
And I found this!

A romantic engineer, who outside his businesslike, professional exterior, must be just dying to find someone to build a house for! My interpretation, as I certainly would be, if I were in his shoes!
(and as I also have a dream of building one...)

Of Hobbits

Don't you just love this window?

I came across these today of "Hobbiton", the film set in Matamata, NZ being rebuilt.
There are tours during this rebuilding, up to the actual filming that should be starting at the end of this year.
If a Tolkien fan and in that part of the world, it would certainly be interesting to visit.

Bag End and neighbor

Hobbiton coming back...
this part of the set had burned down at the end of filming

Can I go in, please?

The Party Tree (right) near the lake

*All photos from Spinky

What were you doing?

Well, I just couldn't resist watching it!
After all, I did see his mother and father's in 1981.

I loved the speech (homily?) made by this clergyman.
(Sorry... I didn't write it immediately down... the Bishop of London?...I'm sure to find it someplace. The Rt Revd and Rt Hon. Dr Richard Chartres, Lord Bishop of London)

I hope to later be able to get the text... very good words for all couples and relationships.
I loved the Chaucer quote.

'Whan maistrie (mastery) comth, 

the God of Love anon, 

Beteth his wynges, 

and farewell, he is gon'.

Update:

Found on the web...

The short version...

via

Pug-licious Design

Puglicious and Eames. Need anything else be said?

via Cute Overload

Flying Fur Balls!

I've discreetly admitted elsewhere on this blog that I do have a cute-addiction, even as my highbrow blushes violently at the thought!

Looking through my folder today, I realized I had separeted some images to post, but never got to it.

Today, then, from last year: 

The Flying Fur Balls

[also known as the Hovercats]

via Cute Overload

April Ladies

Been out of posting mood for a while. A very upsetting beginning of the year. Now, I think all the bootstrap-pulling-upping is finally working.

Today, after a long abscence from quality blog-time, I visited The Girls.

Whenever I do come to the blog and give myself some short or long visiting time, these are usually the first I visit: Posy, Attic24, and Marmalade Rose.
So, why not post of this simple little ritual that brings me happiness.
A two-fold blessing: aknowledging the gift of their presence and getting a post written!

They always cheer me up (even when giving me that pang of envy by all their energy, lovely locations end crafty work!) I love their gorgeous photos. I love taking little or long trips with them to town, to the countryside, even to the supermarket; or just sharing, for a moment, a little bit of their lives.

They don't know of my existence as I'm pretty much of a "lurker", dreadful sounding as that word is. Although once I did comment at Posy's and once at Marmalade Rose's. Fiona, The Rose, kindly answered me back, a happy, warming moment. Although nice to receive, the "commenting" is not what is important: sharing their world through their blogs, these generous ladies share it with me, and this brightens my life.

Note to Self:

Ok, ok, already!!! My conscience pestering me!

So: I like all the blogs on my list!!! (or they wouldn't be there, right?)

Some also are cockle-warming, some have fantastic decorating info, many are crafty, all with interesting and beautiful photos... It's just that these three I start with, like today, when I specially want some coziness.

There, are you satisfied? Can you give me some quiet now?

Qigong

"Curso Completo de Qigong"
Part 1 of 13

Part 2        Part 6         Part 10

Part 3        Part 7        Part 11

Part 4        Part 8        Part 12

Part 5        Part 9        Part 13

"Qi Gong o Chi Kung son técnicas relacionadas a la medicina china tradicional que comprenden la mente, la respiración y el ejercicio físico. Se practica con objetivos orientados a la salud.
El carácter chino Chi significa aire (fluido que anima la respiración) y tiene un significado similar al del Pneuma (griego eπνευμα) de la Grecia antigua o el Prana (Sánscrito प्राण) de los hindúes; Kung significa trabajo o técnica. Chi Kung por tanto se puede traducir como el "trabajo de la respiración" o el arte de hacer circular los hálitos de la forma más adecuada a la finalidad con la que se practica."

Japan

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Japan

Let us pray

Hope

Right message at right time!

Dalai Lama

Although there is no certainty about what lies ahead, people live with the hope that all will go well for them. It is impossible to fulfill our life when we are utterly discouraged. But if we manage to keep our hopes in the future alive, we will be able to overcome all sorts of difficulties and go on living.

Valentine's Day

A star-studded cosmic-heart valentine for all my dear ones!

The Rosette Nebula
From APOD

Change

"A BIT OF WISDOM from A Course in Miracles tells us that no matter what our lives look like at any given moment, we can choose again. As our awareness shifts, we create ourselves anew, adjusting our resonant signature and consequently, experiencing life differently.
...
In Jerry Jampolsky's Love Is Letting Go Of Fear, he gives us the words we use to stay in old energy and sabotage our progress, and suggests that we both notice and curtail their constant use:

impossible
can't
try
limitation
if only
but
however
difficult
ought to
should
doubt
any words that place you or anyone else in that category
any words that tend to measure or evaluate you or other people
any words that tend to judge or condemn you or someone else"

— Judith Gayle, Letting Go of Fear, Planet Waves Weekly, Nov. 14, 2008