Happy Easter every one, even if it’s a late one. Well maybe not too late for all those Orthodox Christians out there. For me it was a bit of an odd one. On my way to church, I noticed a basketball that some kid probably lost, all alone on the corner of a street a few blocks down from my house. I left it alone since there are lots of children in the neighbour hood that might of lost it. Thinking nothing of it I went to church and on with my day. One or two days later there it was on my yard. It was underneath my dad's trailer. Weird, it’s like it followed me home like a lost kitten or something. :o Clue in Twilight zone music. Haha. Oh and here’s a few pics of a surviving Easter egg a former neighbour gave us. It was one of three. I wanted to take pics of all of them but sadly some people have no restraint. Sigh. :p The eggs were naturally coloured using leaves, onionskin for the colouring and a silk stocking. Not exactly sure as to the exact colouring process. :\

Yeaeee! Spring is here. Soon the colour white will disappear and the many colours of spring will take over. Just like my white sweater, which I had no choice but to colour red. It had a bunch of stains that I just couldn't get out. I already tried the colour remover but the stains just didn't budge. The stuff usually works and even worked with ancient stains too. Most annoying! Oh well, at least now I got a brand new looking sweater. I look better in red anyhow.
Speaking of spring, my doves seem to be in the mood as well and a bit ahead too. One of the male doves took to sitting in one of the large spider plants. I guess he saw the old eggs I threw in there earlier. I removed them and placed some fake ones when I found out. He's enough of a stinker as it is anyways. ;)
I'll show you the pics soon.

Oh boy, another snow storm coming. Ha! did some kill the groundhog?
This cabin fever is getting to me.

Ugh, where are you spring. Too darn freezing. Getting cabin fever. :(
Below zero, go away.....

Awesome find.

A few weeks ago, well maybe a month ago I heard about this really cool link about this web site. It’s a really cool search engine. What’s so neat about this search engine you say? Well each time you do a search on it the searching and or clicks equal to donations to your favourite charities. Sadly its not for international use but that will soon change or so they say. Its only for U.S users. You lucky people you!

Good Save

Description;
GoodSearch : a Yahoo-powered search engine that donates money to your favorite charity or school each time you search the Web.

Here are those blurred pics I was talking about in the other post.

Here's a lovely blurred pic of a swimming pool.



Here's a lovely blurred pic of a lobby fountain. And yes I was in this picture but I really didn't like the way I looked in this pic. because of the blurriness, it made me look like a pin head with hair so I eddied my self out. :(



Oh what's this? could this be a Bigfoot?
No, its just a blurred pic of a gorilla.

I hope every one has a good start to the new year.
As for me ohh boy. For the most part the holidays were pretty boring. We don't have any family here, they'er all over seas. Friends are out of town too and so you know the obvious.
Anyways, I tried to back out the car from the garage and I put a nice little hole in the front bumper because of one of my dads machines lining the walls. I knew, I should have listened to my instincts and not bothered to get off my butt. I was sick that day and the fullness of the garage does not help either. I felt bad for days and I still have a bad feeling over it. It was still after all only a few months old. Sigh.....

Humm the blogger is acting strange again since it won't let me link my user pic as usual. Then again it could be the pic it self thats having the problem since its a pic with a clear background and not black. Yeah, I downloaded it again to check.

Oh and heres a few vacation pics, this time from my dad's camera. Its the old style of camera that actually uses film. It takes great pics, that is when the battery is full. I think the battery was at its end since in most of the shots turned out blurry.

I like to wish every one a peaceful, prosperous and joyous Merry Christmas.
It’s never too late in my book for that. After all Christmas lasts right up to some time after new years for Christians.
Oh and check out the newly renovated Nativity scene.
My dad used some paper bark for the walls and pond grass for the roof. Something he’s been meaning to do for a few years now. It looks really great. Can’t wait to make some sheep to add to my collection.

All I want for Christmas is my two red shoes. LOL
Here are two links to the story, Red Boots for Christmas.
The first link is to a script to the story in case any one is interested and the story.
I'll try to see if I can find the cartoon too.

Play
Story

Enjoy.

Oh look what I found. The animated version of The happy Prince. I've been looking for this, for along time and here it is. Part one. The rest can be seen at YouTube.

Oops I forgot to put in the link to the MP3 version of the Happy Prince.
Enjoy.

Who say’s Christmas has to be expensive?
It’s the season of giving so its time to share some link goodies based on some pretty rare Christmas stories and or cartoons I remember from child hood. At the time I found them somewhat corny but then I saw the beauty of the stories. Very unique and un-cookie cutter like compared to the usual fair of Santa Clause related stories.
These are great Christmas stories for the young ones in your life and the kid at hearts such as your selves out there.
First link and story is called the Happy Prince. It’s about a statue that is really not so happy.
There are several ways of downloading this story and bonus it’s free.
It was first introduced to me as a traditional animated story in grade school.
The Happy Prince




Another bonus; there are a few more interesting stories by the same author as well.

I hope my American friends have had a great Thanks Giving?
As for me got my hair done the other day via my mom’s friend, friend. She runs her very own hair styling place out of her basement. The thing I like about it, is no gum chopping smart “a” talks about her latest boyfriend and charges you an arm and a leg because she or he is obligated to make a profit for the salon as a whole. I was even allowed to bring my own colour kit, which I bought at the store earlier. Turned out to be a good experience hair wise too.

Tuesday I conquered quince. My mother conquered buttermilk biscuits.

She mixed all the ingredients by heart after she watched a program from a cooking show.

I was trying to figure out which recipe I should use in making quince preserves.

She kneaded out the dough. It was the right consistency.

Me, I asked my dad for help translating a quince recipe from a Croatian cooking magazine.

My mom was searching for the right cutting tool cause the earlier one didn’t seem to cut it.

My dad went off to taking care of some other business else where in the house. I looked at all the ingredients and equipment and I thought, “What have I got my self in to!”

Finding the right tool for the job, my mom cut fancy biscuits and placed them on a pan. She placed them in the hot oven, went downstairs and watched TV.

Getting my composer, I cleaned the quince under the tap, cut and took the seeds out. I placed the cut up fruit in a pot, poured in a liter or two of water and turned on the heat.

My mom got up from her seat to check on the now rising biscuits. They were rising nicely.

I simply stirred and stared at the boiling pot. I later covered it and looked for reference from my collections of images to pass the time.

My mother went back to check on her biscuits. They were done and a little too done. Luckily she took them out in time or she would have had some newly acquired hockey pucks.

I stirred and stirred some more. It was about 5 hours worth, too much for me. My dad when to check on my progress, it wasn’t very much progress.

My mom brought a sample biscuit downstairs where I was cooking. It wasn’t bad.

I was getting frustrated. My dad and me decided it was a good idea to blend the stubborn mash of fruit. Finally something resembling preserves, I think. After blending, the mixture was placed back in to the pot and boiled some more with some sugar. My stomach was growling so I fetched a freshly baked biscuit. It was already 7pm. Oh joy the time was finally right, I poured the mush in to hot jars and closed them tight. I boiled the jars for the finishing touch of ceiling for freshness.

I think I conquered applesauce and my mom conquered almost hockey pucks.

Did you ever have one of those days where you say..."boy am I an idiot" as a result of being uninformed or mistaken identity? It was one of those " hit my head, face was red" moments. You can add another embaracing moment in my life to a long list of embaracing moments. Doh!


Oh and I got these "sugar babies" in the email. I guess you can put these on cakes. There made from marzipan and hand painted est.

Hehe. Check this out. I got this in an Email.
It’s a mural in a smoker's lounge.

I wonder what that artist could create for a bathroom.
;)

At the Zoo 7

This is either a pygmy hippo or a rhino. Can't remember but it was in some kind of animal tarentum thingy along with all kinds of other Asian animals.








And here's a lazy father Siberian tiger. The mother is in a separate incloser with two cute little cubs.
I guess they wouldn't be so small now. Just off the pic there was this big yoga ball toy. It had all sorts of nice large gashes in it You can just imagine what that would be like on flesh. Yikes.

At the Zoo 7
And this was the reason why I missed out on the photo opportunity with the meerkats.
What human would miss out on these colorful and shiny things. People love colourful n shiny things.
This is my most favourite set of pics. I kind of wish I had one of these in my bed room.

At the Zoo 6


Ha, its Lion king all over again.

Geez , what is with these cats, always perfectly timed so that you just miss there face.

At the Zoo 4



More lazy animals. Or possibly really bored of us weird humans. Or perhaps they want us to think of them as bored, but are secretly planing on taking over the world. Hummm