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February 1, 2015
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| Broadcast Schedule |
| Today!!! Sunday, February 1, 2015 |
| 3 PM PST/6 PM PST |
| No Story Writing We'll write again on February 8 |
| 6 PM PST/9 PM EST |
| No VacaChat Broadcast.
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| It's REALLY Gonna Happen |
| The 5th Anniversary International MOD Meet!!! http://www.modmeet.com/ |
| VacaChat Broadcast Changes |
| February's story writing and broadcast will be delayed until February 8 due to the Super Bowl (and Puppy Bowl) on February 1. |
| VacaDude, Zorro and friends recorded a Christmas Eve
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| Hello Vriends, | ||
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Happy Super Bowl Sunday to you all! May your team of favor be
victorious. Myself, I don't really have a favorite. I used to
like Seattle, but I can't stand their head coach and the players
are a bunch of loudmouths. I used to be okay with the Patriots,
but they seem to skirt the rules a bit much. So it's the Jerks
versus the Cheaters, in my book. But that's harsh. I will watch,
but I can't say I have a clear favorite.
Today is the last of a series of somber anniversaries for the space program. Last week we had the anniversaries of the Apollo 1 fire, then the next day the loss of the space shuttle Challenger. Today it is the shuttle Columbia--she burned up in re-entry 12 years ago today. So I have been in a bit of a reflective mood lately. I have been watching my DVDs of the series "From the Earth to the Moon" because of it. I have been doing a bit of star-gazing as well. The day before yesterday, I finally finished the main assembly on my telescope mount. It still needs staining and varnishing, but I wanted to try it to make sure it worked first. Well, it sort of works. The mount itself is great--but I still can't seem to get a good track out of it. You see, the base of the scope has a tracking motor in it. This rotates the mount one revolution every 24 hours, and this should compensate for the Earth's rotation. Well, I think the bulk of my mount, the scope, and my camera is too much for the little tracking motor to bear. So I guess the next step will be to design a new tracking base, with a bigger motor. That's going to have to be a ways off, and I'll have to save up for the parts. But it was fun last night to get out there and have a sturdier mount! I got some nice shots of the comet Lovejoy, the Pleiades, and the Orion Nebula. (I'll show all those in the chat next weekend.) Then just a little while ago, I was out in the backyard with my irrigation pipe boom for the camera. I had just built a little box with a couple of switches, and that is for running the camera's autofocus and shutter from a distance. So I was just going to raise the camera up and try a shot to make sure my electrical was good, when suddenly a scrub jay plopped down in our apple tree. It was way up near the top, so I thought "gee, I wonder how close I can get the camera to him?" So I raised the pole up and got to within around four feet and hit the focus button. It beeped, so that was working. Then I hit the shutter, and click! That made the bird take notice, and he flew off. So I got just the one shot, but boy is it a beauty! (I'm sending it along to be in the newsletter.) That is just one of the uses I had in mind when I was designing this boom. So I think I'm going to have some fun with that! Well, time to get some more stuff done before we get settled in to watch the end of the football season. And the Puppy Bowl! (In many ways, I think the latter will be more fun...) Have a great week, y'all, and see you next Sunday! |
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| Chatter News |
| Jes63 | Jes's new furbaby has arrived. We'd like to introduce Miss Bailey, a very timid 4˝ year old. She normally has more fur but she was shaved down and her beard cut off before they sent her to Jes. You won't recognize her once her fur grows back in. | ||
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| Sharoot | Sharoot's featured pictures can be found
at the end of each newsletter, under Photos of the
Week. She says that since they are located at the end, then "Sharoot's
the Caboose!" Today Sharoot shares pictures of a beautiful bird posing for the camera and a special gift she received this week. |
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| ChatterChopz | ChatterChopz and DotRot are proud to announce the completion and publication of a book all about CC! It's entitled Unexpected Lessons From My Daughter: The Blessings of Parenting a Special Needs Child. If you want to read it, it is available in both Paperback and Kindle formats. It's got dozens of photos of CC, from birth to present. You can view it or purchase it here: http://goo.gl/RjCFT3 (At present, Amazon has discounted the paperback version by over $5!) | ||
| Elsalynda | Elsalynda's latest column entitled Nature In the
City: A New Year Dawns in Wintry Waltham, is available online here: http://waltham.wickedlocal.com/article/20150112/NEWS/150119689 Make sure you check out the photo accompanying the article!!! Elsa also tells us that she has had a poem selected for publication. She says she is very excited to be a part of this book and feels like a poet in good company, with known authors. Her poem on Great Horned Owls has a page with a beautiful photo opposite. Her writing group helped her with this piece. The book, Secrets of Wisdom by Joyce Gerrish, is now available at Amazon. |
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| We'd love to include more news of VacaChatters. If you have something you'd like to share (something about you or your family) or if you know of exciting news about another chatter that they're just too shy to share, please send it to us! (We won’t run it without that chatter’s permission, however.) | |||
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| The Family of Tsaffirth |
We received this last week from tresbein: "I'm writing with the sad news that tsaffirth has passed away. We noticed the attached post on her Facebook page just now, but there are no details of what happened. She had posted recently about great improvements in her health so we are shocked. She will be missed."  |
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| VacaDude's Brother-in-law, Duke |
I would ask for prayers and well-wishes for my brother-in-law Richard
"Duke" Paiz, who suffered a stroke. He is about to be moved to
an elder care facility. He was improving but has now hit a plateau.
That's why they are moving him. But overall, he is doing much better,
considering they were about to disconnect him from life support a few
days after the stroke! So the prayers definitely did help!! (I am going
to try to get up to visit him this week.) I extend a thank you from my
entire family. Keep the prayers coming! Duke married my oldest sister Beverly in the late 1950s. Because my parents were at an advanced age when they had me (Mom was 41, dad was 46), and my dad had a massive heart attack when I was three, they made arrangements with Bebe and Duke that they would raise me until I was 18. So Duke was only a couple of heartbeats away from being my dad. As it was, we were very close, and I did a lot of camping and road trips with them. They never did have children of their own. |
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| KSBorn | KSBorn was in regression for lymphoma and breast cancer. It has since returned and she's going for Chemo now. She and her doctors are attacking it vigorously and she needs our prayers. She needs our prayers for healing, for the Lord to guide her doctors, and for the peace and strength as she undergoes the treatment. | ||
| VacaDude and his cousin, Kevin | UPDATE: WONDERFUL NEWS!!!!! "Our family got some news this last week from my cousin Kevin, and it was wonderful: the latest tests show that he is in full remission!! So I'd like to thank you all for your thoughts and prayers; it meant a lot to me and to Kevin. If you could extend a few of those prayers to his mother Irene, I would really appreciate it. In a cruel twist of fate, Kevin's mom was diagnosed with lymphoma--very similar to Kevin's--that was located in her abdomen. Last I heard, she was responding well to the chemo. Apparently it made for some lively chemo treatment sessions--mother and son in together! They have always been a fun family, and I really hope Irene pulls through as well." | ||
| TheDaddyBird, | TheDaddyBird is also facing hip replacement real soon. We finally got the referral to the orthopedic surgeon who takes our insurance. His surgery will happen on March 2. They are doing the replacement anterior instead of posterior so his recovery time should be much shorter. His stay in the hospital is expected to be only about 2˝ days. | ||
| Marilyn Crabb | We received this message this week from a long-time
Molly watcher: I don't join the online chats but I read the newsletter and was a Molly watcher from the beginning. Last week, I was diagnosed with stage 2B (or greater) breast cancer and am undergoing lots of further tests and will begin chemotherapy on Tuesday. Please add me to the prayer list. UPDATE: Thank you for your prayers. I'm doing really well after my first chemotherapy treatment. One week down - nineteen to go. Then surgery and radiation. I have more tests scheduled to see if the cancer has spread beyond my armpit but so far it does not look like it has. My screen name was/is MarilynLA on UStream. (Marilyn from Los Angeles) |
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| Littleguys | UPDATE:
The latest news from Littleguys:
I can now give you an update on my Stage Zero Breast Cancer.
As most of you know, or may remember, last Spring, I was
diagnosed with this because mammograms are now done digitially
and they blow them up until they find something. Over the
summer, I had two lumpectomies. The lymph node they removed
showed NO sign of cancer so all looks good and did not need
chemotherapy.
On the other hand, oncologists love radiation. In my case, if I did NOT have radiation, there was a 30 - 50% chance of the cancer returning. With radiation, only a 3% chance, so of course we did radiation. Every day, five days a week for 6 weeks plus 3 days. That was finished the Monday after Thanksgiving. Then wait five weeks and go back to the radiation center for a follow up. Everything looked ok, "sunburn" from the radiation healed nicely, though there are two, ok, three interesting side effects. One is that the some of the skin will be slightly discolored. Second is that I will probably never have hair in that armpit again, so no more shaving on that side. Silly, I know, but it is kind of interesting if no one every told you that before. Third, I probably won't need deodorant on that side either. Ok, I will use it any way, but who ever told us that as a side effect. I feel fine. No longer need the afternoon naps EVERY single day that I seemed to require during the radiation. My oncologist said I will have to have mammograms every six months for awhile. That part I don't like and I am sure the ladies reading this will understand. The men? Well, ask a lady in your life about mammograms. Thank you for all the prayers and moral support. |
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| Caboval | Caboval is in need of our prayers for her dog, Joey. You can read more about Joey and his struggles here: http://gfwd.at/1n8NU0h. | ||
| LATEST UPDATE on Joey! Caboval writes: “Oh Joey isn't doing good and I'm so worried. He made it through cancer and is in remission and survived liver failure but something has happened to his leg. He had X-rays and there's no break but it looked like his neck had a pinched nerve. So, I'm doing cold laser therapy and no improvement. I'm doing chiropractor sessions, no improvement. Then on Friday he had acupuncture and now Joey can't walk at all on his leg and it's now been 4 weeks and no improvement. I had a prayer group for him on Facebook. I think the acupuncture somehow has hit nerves in his leg and he can't walk at all. I don't have any hope that he will be able to walk again and I'm at the point I may have to make a decision this coming week. I'm heartbroken and I'm praying for a miracle. I'm devastated and he is only 6 years old. I wish I had better news. Can you say a prayer for him?” | |||
| Elsalynda | We got this message from elsa last week: Hi all, My computer crashed today and is at Staples in a kind of messy corner being diagnosed. I think it was my fault. I cannot even do my column this week, sigh. Say a prayer for me. So I will probably not see you on Sunday but "Hi," from me to all. Your elsalynda |
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| GentleDoe | We've had no new updates from GentleDoe in a while. If anyone has any new news on her, please let us know. | ||
| Shari in Memphis | Has anyone gotten any updates from Shari? | ||
| Thank you for your prayers and good thoughts for owl our wonderful VacaFamily members! If you have any prayer requests, updates or news of answered prayers, please let us know. Email us with the information so it can be included in the next newsletter. | |||
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| A
Message from Zorro |
StoryTime News |
StoryTime Archives |
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| Recipe of the Week |
| A Message from Zorro |
| Hello there, Everbuddy! | ||
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Happy Sunday of football madness to you all! Of course,
you know what Super Bowl means to me--MUNCHIES!! The
Dude came home last night with a gigantic brick of
Velveeta. He then promptly hid it from me. Grrr! Oh
well, the snacks should be worth it today. He is going
to make his cheezy bean dip with tortilla chips--YUM!!
So I don't even know who is playing in the football
game...all I know is we are going to have some yummy
snacks.
Well, the garage has been a bizzy place for the last few days, as we finished up a couple of woodworking projects. The telescope mount is awesome, though it is apparently too heavy for the tracking motor to push. So we will probably be back in the garage someday making a new base. Oh well, it should be a pretty good set-up when it is all finished! And then we just finished some work on the camera boom. I still want to ride on that! I want to see if the Dude can make a little rig for me, and I can go up in the air with his cell phone and take a selfie from way in the air! That would be vun. Well, it is time to go get buzzy and get ready for the big game! See you all next weekend, when we'll do the StoryTime again. |
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| Yours Most Whiskerly, Zorro |
| StoryTime News |
| Next StoryTime | Sunday, February 8 3:00 PM PST/6:00 PM EST |
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| Title | Turn On Your Heartlight | ||
| Invitation | We need story writers! Please consider dropping in and checking out the fun we have writing the stories. Honestly, it's not at all difficult to join in and you'll surely be glad you did. | ||
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If anyone wants to request a recipe or a recipe category, just email me.
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Pennsylvania Dutch Corn Relish |
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4 cups corn (approx. 12 ears or use frozen and skip
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Cut corn from cob. |
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Creamy Bratwurst and Potato Soup |
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2˝ pounds potatoes, peeled and cubed 20 ounces
bratwursts, grilled and sliced 4 ounces Swiss cheese,
grated ˝ gallon whole milk ˝ pint heavy cream ˝ pound butter or margarine 1 onion, minced 3 garlic cloves Ľ teaspoon ground nutmeg 1˝ teaspoons white pepper 1˝ tablespoons hickory smoke salt Ľ cup parsley |
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Melt butter in Dutch oven. On medium low heat, sweat
onion, garlic, and potatoes. Season with white pepper and salt. 4. Potatoes will
begin to form a slurry from their starch. This is normal. Continue to
sweat until potatoes begin to soften, adding liquid if necessary (beer,
white wine, broth,etc). When potatoes have softened, add milk, cream and
nutmeg and bring to slow simmer. (From this point on, do not allow to
boil. Only allow a slow simmer.) After returning to simmer, slowly add
grated cheese and melt into mixture. Add bratwurst, return to simmer, and simmer 30
minutes. Salt and pepper to taste. (If soup is too thin, or if soup has accidentally
come to a boil and broken make a slurry made of 3 parts milk or water to
1 part flour and add a little at a time to the simmering soup allowing
it to thicken before adding more.) Stir in parsley.
Serve with your favorite
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| Owl Cams |
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Other Nature Cams | Video Picks of the Week | Inspiration | ||||||
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| Owl Cams |
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Shetland Islands Puffins | http://www.shetland.org/puffincam/ | |||
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Sea Island, Maine |
http://explore.org/live-cams/player/puffin-burrow-cam | |||
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Sea Island, Maine |
http://explore.org/live-cams/player/puffin-loafing-ledge-cam These pages also contain links to numerous other nature cams. |
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| Eagles | |||||
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Southwest Florida Eagles
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi6DdvVbbi8 | ||
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Black Eagle |
http://www.africam.com/wildlife/black_eagle_webcam | |||
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Decorah Eagles |
http://www.ustream.tv/decoraheagles | |||
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Berry College Eagle Cam |
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/berry-eagle-cam | |||
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http://www.pixcontroller.com/eagles/index.htm | ||||
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PA Falcon Cam |
http://www.pacast.com/players/falcon.asp | |||
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Commerce Tower Peregrines |
http://mdc.mo.gov/discover-nature/wildlife-cameras/peregrine-falcon-web-camera Cam not live now but should be returning soon. |
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Pitt Peregrine Falcon |
http://www.aviary.org/PF-NestCam1 | |||
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Gulf Tower Peregrine Falcon |
http://www.aviary.org/PF-NestCam2 | |||
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Emily
Falcon Cam |
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/emily-falcon-cam | |||
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RFalconCam |
http://rfalconcam.com/rfc-main/ | |||
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Watch the Birdie |
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/Watch-the-Birdie | |||
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Disco |
https://www.youtube.com/user/MsJumpinJude/videos | |||
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California Condor San Diego Zoo Safari Park San Diego, California |
http://zoo.sandiegozoo.org/cams/condor-cam | |||
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KC Zoo Penguin Cam |
http://www.kansascityzoo.org/penguincam |
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Whidbey Island Back Porch other assorted birds |
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/katersch | |||
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Hellgate Ospreys |
http://cams.allaboutbirds.org/channel/27/Hellgate_Ospreys/ | |||
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Ostrich Chicks |
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http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ostrich-egg-cam-live | ||
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Streaming Bird Cams |
http://www.beakspeak.com/ | |||
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| Pandas | |||||
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San Diego Zoo Pandas |
www.sandiegozoo.org (click
on live cams)
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http://www.ustream.tv/sandiegozoo. Zoo's
blogs: http://blognew.sandiegozoo.org/category/animals-and-plants/giant-pandas/ |
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Twin Pandas at |
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Giant Panda Cam |
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/webcams/giant-panda.cfm | |||
| Bears | |||||
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Kansas City Polar Bears |
http://www.kctv5.com/category/244581/nikita-berlin-polar-bear-cam | |||
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Brown Bears and Salmon |
http://explore.org/#!/live-cams/player/brown-bear-salmon-cam-brooks-falls (lots of other cams at this site, as well) |
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Black Bears |
http://www.bear.org/website/live-cameras/live-cameras/holly-bears-den-cam-live.html | |||
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Golden Paw-Prints Classic Golden Retrievers Oshkosh, Wisconsin |
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/golden-retriever-puppy-cam All the pups have gone to their forever homes. Camera is shut down until the next litter is born. |
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San Diego Zoo and Safari Park |
http://animals.sandiegozoo.org/ | |||
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The Pet Collective |
http://www.thepetcollective.tv/livestreams/ | |||
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Critter Chat Cams |
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Friends of Felines Rescue
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www.ustream.tv/ffrc | |||
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Little House |
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CC's Page of Links (scheduled for updating) |
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 Secrets
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| Meet Zeus | |||||
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| Some Interesting Information About Someone We All Know Well | |||||
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| International Space Station Links | |||||
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broadcast the Dude talked about the websites where one can view the
spacestation and the view that the astronauts have. Here are the links: This one has the map, but no chat. http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/HDEV/ This site has a chat room. http://www.ustream.tv/channel/iss-hdev-payload |
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from windbeneathwing. Swimming owl caught on video http://www.foxnews.com/science/2014/12/05/swimming-owl-caught-on-video/ |
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| Video Picks of the Week |
Today, we're offering THREE fun videos in honor of the Super Bowl
3D Hyperrealistic Drawing: NFL Super Bowl XLIX Game Ball
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfUmtORVC4s
Dear Kitten: Regarding the Big Game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBrSvHPY1NQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBrSvHPY1NQ
Be More Dog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMzgl0nFj3s&feature=youtu.be
The Orchid Mantis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUKyETJZqM8
Awesome Rocket Launch
http://observationdeck.io9.com/amazing-rocket-launch-1674815939
Cave Digging Artist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxcftjJ39BU
American Trilogy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=fmWa1gKrp6Q
| Inspiration or Things to Make You Think |
Lovely Owl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G1PFLuTrgM
Harrier Jet Lands on a Stool
http://www.chonday.com/Videos/harrierlj2
I suggest that, when the video loads, you watch it at full screen.
Close Up Lava
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahZD95l1MvM
In the kids' world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykeZgcq71LE
Dance on the Circle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOSGS9ruj4U
Russia's Inflatable Army
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Kb6UjqrmfWk
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Fun Animations and Pictures |
Photos of the Week |
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Zorro's Word of the Week | ||||||
| Just for the Fun of It |
Kyle's Jokes of the Week |
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http://www.justcraftyenough.com/2014/08/advent-calendar-project-14-week-9/
http://www.repeatcrafterme.com/2012/12/homemade-hand-warmers.html
| Fun Animations and Pictures |
| Photos of the Week |
From the Dude
I thought you might enjoy this photo of a bird in our backyard.
Sharoot's Caboose
Sharoot shares,
"I'm sure I've featured this guy before but this Red Shouldered Hawk is particularly photogenic, and handsome!"
My neighbor made me this owlsome gift! I think she knows me pretty well.
| Kyle's well known among his friends for his "triple
groaner" riddles and jokes. Now he shares them with VacaFamily. Enjoy! |
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| What did the windmill say when she met her favorite
rock star? "Nice to meet you. I'm a big fan!" |
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| Who is the Patron Saint of Email? St. Francis of a CC |
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| What do you get when you cross a stream and a brook? Wet feet. |
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| Shopkeeper Smith was alarmed when a new business,
much like his own, opened in the storefront to the left of him. A huge
sign was installed, reading BEST DEALS. Mr. Smith was troubled a second
time when another competitor leased the building on his right, and
erected a much larger sign, reading LOWEST PRICES. At this point Smith
was really depressed, however, he came up with an idea. He put the
biggest sign of all over his own shop..It read MAIN ENTRANCE. |
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| Why is a carrot orange and pointy? Because if it was green and round it would want to pea! |
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| Zorro's Word of the Week |
ANODYNE
Pronunciation: \AN-uh-dyne\
adjective
Definition of ANODYNE
1: serving to alleviate pain
2: not likely to offend or arouse tensions : innocuous
EXAMPLES
I felt nervous in their presence and couldn't muster
anything more than an anodyne question about the weather.
"The cuisine of Spain is largely misunderstood in the United States, where what
passes for Spanish food
is all too often an anodyne assemblage of yellow rice, green sauce and red peppers."
— From a restaurant review by Erica Marcus in Newsday (New York), January 3, 2014
DID YOU KNOW?
"Anodyne" came to English via Latin from Greek "anōdynos" ("without pain"), and it has been used as
both an adjective and a noun ("something that relieves pain") since the 16th century.
It has sometimes been used of things that dull or lull the senses and render painful
experiences less so. Edmund Burke used it this way, for example, in 1790 when he referred to
flattery as an "anodyne draft of oblivion" that renders one (in this particular case,
the deposed king Louis XVI) forgetful of the flatterer's true feelings. In the 1930s,
a newer second sense began appearing in our vocabulary. Now, in addition to describing things
that dull pain, "anodyne" can also refer to that which
doesn't cause discomfort in the first place.
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Eric has discontinued the sales of all his books and merchandise.
of that and want one, let DotRot know
and she'll do what she can to make it available to you.
