Links

From Facebook:
I Learned Everything I Needed to Know About Marriage From Pride and Prejudice - Karen Swallow Prior - The Atlantic

Christine Gross-Loh: Have American Parents Got It All Backwards?

(life is too short not to) wear red shoes: the story of us, part II

From watching Pan Am:

Flight Attendant Blog : The Flying Pinto

Lost in Travels - Spark Your Adventure

Five Flight Attendant Blogs You Should Read - Flying With Fish

Natural Pools & Unicorns

 Plant filtered swimming pools! 

I want one...pretty please.

See the various items from the universe in scale. 

Amazing zooming in and out features! 

A really nice historical clothing blog.

FDIM is doing an excellent job of showcasing items that aren't on display every day.

In one of my alternate lives, I would have been an historical clothing curator...

Porcelain Unicorn

As a friend, George Shubin posted on facebook...

British film director Ridley Scott launched a global film making contest for aspiring directors.

 It was entitled "Tell It Your Way". There were over 600 entries.

The film could be no longer than three minutes, contain only 6 lines of narrative and be a compelling story. 

The winner was "Porcelain Unicorn" from American director Keegan Wilcox. 

It's a story of the lifetimes of two people who are totally opposite,

 yet, very much the same - all told in less than 3 minutes. 

You'll see why it won.

Day 76

1. Love the rainbow of colors at the party store
2. Finding the big dipper on a painting at the doctor's office.
3. Coming home to kitty's napping parallel to each other
4. What else - dropping Scott's lunch off at work (oops, I forgot to make it last night), Costco, Wal-mart, Salvation Army (and running into Maria B. there, too fun!), Sears Outlet (wow, I'll be back there again...), Costco again, ESD (Daniel's working on getting his permit- eeks!), Dr Z, picking up Ryan A to spend a couple of nights, Tyler and I hanging out and watching My Big Fat Greek Wedding while everyone else was off party-ing.




Links I enjoyed:
   An interesting application of Ruth to modern times
   Awesome aquariums
   I want to make this cake

Random links of various interests

Just a few links that I thought would be fun to share....

First off, The Art Of Clean Up is pretty awesome. It's written in Spanish, but the main idea seems to be that he takes ordinary scenarios (parking lot, or a fir branch) and organizes them.

Second, I just discovered this, Semester at Sea. I want to do the Summer 2013 trip. England, Europe & Egypt! Yes please. Although, it is lacking Holland, France and Germany. But that's okay, it would be a good intro, right?

Third, if you like to travel, I just discovered this blog, Prêt à Voyage. http://www.pret-a-voyager.com/ Very fun! I'm enjoying her posts about {Un}glamorous Paris.

And one more thing, if you like dollhouses, you might want to check out this Dollhouse Challenge. I've always loved anything miniature and I do have a dollhouse I could decorate. So it looks awesome. (I'm not doing the challenge though, I already have too many projects going on....)

Puttering & Tasmania

This afternoon mostly consisted mostly of puttering outside. I'm into puttering right now. The word (I like saying it) and the action. Usually I'm faster than puttering, but with my shoulders and neck still recovering from moving hay, I'm puttering.  Today I focused on fixing some panels on the hot tub so it can get stained and sanding the back door so it can get painted. I've been itching to get to these projects for the last two weeks but it wouldn't stop raining long enough! The word puttering never fails to remind me of Patrick McManuses chapter on puttering.

This evening some awesome guys from our church came and helped prep the yard for The Party. Pretty nice of them. I swear our life revolves around the garden until The Party so it's a relief to have extra help. :)

I think I'm kind of digging this random items style of writing.

I came accros this website today about Tasmania Parks (picture from website). After looking at it and Wikipedia I now want to visit Tasmania. I love how the photo above says, "Winter Wonders - Rug up and step outside!" English never fails to amuse me.

I also clicked for the first time on a Pandora ad. Of all things, for these. I've never paid much attention to rings... they always seem to look the same, but these actually looked like they took some serious skillz.

And I discovered one of my new favorite all time blogs. It's called Scouting NY. I've always thought that location scouting for movies sounded intriguing but after reading this blog I think it's moved into my top five of favorite jobs. Number one being Queen. Haha, not really.  Basically scouting sounds kind of like being a real estate agent but you don't have the pressure to sell anything. I also love New York City so it's a double plus.

Mowing, strawberries and singleness

I mowed with a walk behind lawn mower for the first time. I know, big deal, eh? We've had a riding lawn mower since I was nine, so I'm sure at one point I "helped" someone mow when I was younger, or I may have helped mow a grandparent's yard at some point, but I don't remember, so it doesn't count. :) Our riding lawn mower died a month ago and after much family conferencing, we decided to try and get away without one for a while. It mows better but it definitely takes more time. And yes, the phrase that kept running through my head as I mowed was "I am a woman, hear me MOW..." Cheesy, I know.

What's humorous to me about this whole situation is that up 'til now, mowing has been regarded as a male only sport in our family. My allergies were always too bad to do it or I had more important things to do. ; ) But now that I can't weed for very long, the roles are getting reversed. The boys can weed and I can mow. And I had never realized just how fun it could be. I"m definitely indebted to the boys for all the weeding they're doing! Also, when I'm mowing the orchard (way harder than lawn), it makes for an awesome workout.

I love rice krispies with strawberries before bed :)

It's strawberry season and they're pretty amazing this year.

So far, we've just been eating them plain, but I think jam is in the near future.

This morning I did vision therapy outside because it was so nice. I've decided that doing vision therapy outside is about 200% nicer than doing it inside. This is also a pretty easy week, hence the blogging. ;) I've been listening to War and Peace which also makes it go faster.

And tonight I came across two good articles on singleness from both perspectives on the amazing and ever insightful blog Practical Theology for Women. The guys perspective was especially fascinating to me, as it wasn't a perspective I'd heard before.

Disposable Young Men

It isn't good to be alone