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Happy Mother's Day to you all!! A happy day to all who are mothers, have mothers, have mothers in Heaven, or whatever. I have certainly been keeping my Mom in my thoughts today. Some years the holiday is an unpleasant reminder of the loss, but this year I feel very good. I like to think Mom has been tagging around with me all day.

This week I have been catching up on all the projects I had to put on hold while I finished the trade-show graphics. As far as I know, the show went off okay. (No news is good news.) So I spent one day this week meeting with my client Norman Lloyd, as we are going to try to finish up his Vietnam documentary.

As for the DVDs, those are coming soon! I had some video issues when I put them to disc, and they wouldn't play on my test player. So I had to spend some time last week trying to figure out what was wrong. Turns out some file formats have changed (AGAIN!), but I think I have a good workflow going. I am hoping to get that finished up tonight and I can start shipping them on Monday and Tuesday. (I'm going to have to take them in batches, as it takes about a half hour to burn each one.) So I apologize for the delay, but you'll be getting those within a few days now! :D

Now, in truth I cannot say I spent ALL this week working. I lost a couple of hours each day thanks to NASA. Seems they have stuck some HD Video cameras outside the International Space Station. Then the whole thing is streamed down to Ustream. The result is amazing. I have been taking some breaks from time to time whenever the ISS flies over an interesting spot on the Earth. I have shot some footage of it, and I'm going to be playing that video on tonight's VacaChat broadcast.

So yes, there is going to be a broadcast tonight, and I hope you can make it! I do realize this is Mother's Day, but I was thinking it might be okay because a lot of people do their celebrating earlier in the day. If not, there is always the recording. I am planning to make it a Mother-oriented show, so I hope you can make it and we can have some silly fun. I couldn't defer the broadcast to next weekend, because we are going to be out of town for our anniversary. May is always a bizzy month.

And speaking of bizzy, I had better get back to it--got to edit the ISS Camera footage together. It's pretty amazing stuff! (Also, there is going to be a pass nearly over my house in about a half hour, and I want to try to record that.)

So I hope to see you tonight, but if not--Happy Mother's Day, and have a great week! 

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2-4 cloves garlic, finely chopped

¼ cup (60 ml) honey

¼ cup (60 ml) lemon juice

2 Tbs (30 ml) soy sauce

2 Tbs (30 ml) dry sherry

Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste

2-3 lbs thin cut (about ½ inch) pork chops

Cheese and Vegetable Twist

2 eggs
4 ounces Cream Cheese, softened
½ cup Shredded Italian Three Cheese Blend
3 cups frozen broccoli, thawed, drained and chopped fine
½ pound fresh mushrooms, cut into quarters
½ cup cherry tomatoes, cut in half
1 red pepper, chopped
4 green onions, sliced
2 cans (8 oz. each) refrigerated crescent dinner rolls
Salt to taste

Directions

Nicassio Owl Box
Salt and Pepper

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Hosted by Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Located in Texas

Burrowing Owls
Tri-Cities, Washington

Sea Island, Maine
Puffin Burrow

Sea Island, Maine
Puffin Loafing Ledge

Black Eagle
South Africa

Decorah Eagles
Decorah, Iowa

Berry College Eagle Cam
Mt. Berry, Georgia

PA Falcon Cam
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Commerce Tower Peregrines
Kansas City, Missouri

Pitt Peregrine Falcon
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Gulf Tower Peregrine Falcon
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Emily Falcon Cam
Caloundra, Australia

RFalconCam
Rochester, New York

Watch the Birdie
Bibi, the African Gray

Disco
Talking Parakeet

KC Zoo Penguin Cam
  Kansas City, MO

Whidbey Island Back Porch
  Whidbey Island, WA
  Rufous hummingbirds and

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Hellgate Ospreys
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Sponsored by Cornell

Ostrich Chicks
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Streaming Bird Cams
List of many cams

Twin Pandas at
Zoo Atlanta

Giant Panda Cam
National Zoo
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(off season- will return)

Black Bears
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The Pet Collective
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Critter Chat Cams
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Little House
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