Haluški: FIVE SECOND STORIES

We had a nice Valentine's evening in front of the hearth. Here is a beautiful card C gave me:

When opened, a tiny light within Mr. Moon comes on. V cool at night. What a lovely idea, thanks sweetie!

We watched a new animated feature Flow, the Latvian entry for Best International Feature Film at the Oscars. Fabulous visuals (oh, check out the reflections in water) with an intriguing choice for storytelling: no dialogue, no narration. It seems to be set in some sort of post-apocalyptic world-humans are gone and a dark grey kitty is trying to survive. On this journey, he is eventually joined by a disparate group of animals: dog, capybara, ring-tailed lemur and secretarybird. They communicate with each other the best they can. Each has its strengths and weaknesses and somehow, they learn how to survive, together. Highly recommended.

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2/16-more snow and cold. This morning, the Turkey bros visited everyone's Diner in the neighborhood and found some good eatin's at our buffet:

DHS kept an eye on them:

One of those afternoons where the sky is the same color as the snow

2/23-hopefully, the worst of arctic cold is over with little additional snow in recent days. The sun has been out and warm enough to melt the snow on the driveway and roads.

There's a quartet of squirrels these days at the Diner as well as the turkey bros.

Minn's grave

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Bizarre commercials:

CeraVe, a skin moisturizing cream:

Let's hope that you never hear your skin speaking to you! If you do, please see a licensed professional as soon as possible!

What an opening!

My Dad always has his tool belt with him but now he's living with prostrate cancer...

I guess this is for those manly men out there and now there's a new tool in his belt from those nice folks at Pfizer. My years of reading MAD magazine kick in whenever I see nonsense like this.

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FUBARland

Bizarrely disconnected, mixed-metaphoric concepts for GOAT:

Ostensibly, Project GOAT, which stands for the Global Offensive Against Trafficking, is an initiative where 75-pound goat sculptures are auctioned off to raise funds to combat child sex trafficking. These gilded statues are plastered with fake $100 bills which read In Trump We Trust. Evidently the creators, didn't think Christians would be offended either by the replacement of God with Trump on the bills or the glaring similarity to the Golden Calf-one of the Bible's big no-no's about worshiping false idols. Oi vey.

This poster appeared at the conservative's conference CPAC, again suffering from major disconnect: ok, you want Roach to be dictator for life, an American Caesar...

...apparently forgetting what happened to the real life Caesar in 44 BC.

A reprise posting from December, 2016 in response to Trump and Vance statements making clear that defending Ukraine is not a priority to this administration. Our late buddy Bin provides commentary.

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Sark, one of the Channel Islands West of Le Havre, France does not allow cars much like our own Mackinac Island. This is a tiny isle-barely 2 square miles with a population of 500.

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Kelimutu-a volcano in Indonesia with three crater lakes whose water color changes due to volcanic vents which emit various gasses and minerals.

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Some much needed Summer imagery from Otava Yo-a Russian folk song: Ivan the Crayfish

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I've been dipping into this travel vid from an earlier post. The other day, I began an imaginary drinking game: one shot each time the narrator uses the word surreal. Half an hour later, I was under the table after downing nine shots 🙀🙀.

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Switzerland has nuke shelters for 114% of it's population. While this nation may not be a member of the alliance but it has long been planning for all-out conflict. Under a 1963 law all Swiss residents, including foreigners and refugees, are guaranteed a spot in a shelter capable of protecting them from nuclear, biological and chemical weapons as well as “close hits from conventional weapons”.

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Trapped astronauts get a reprieve: scheduled return moved up from end of March to mid-March. We'll believe it when they safely hit terra firma.