Gypsy Cat

Gypsy Cat, a photo by good mood factory on Flickr.

How much I love Gypsies! I just could not resist to draw this Gypsy Cat as a friend of Nitinha...

Friday with an illustration.
A ilustração da semana.

Things That Make Me Smile

Catnip growing in our raised flower beds, either unbeknownst to our Maximum Leader or insufficiently fragranced prior to being crushed to be attacked. I've found that growing catnip in a container never succeeds. It either gets stunted or attacked by bugs or both. This one had both conditions and needed to be cut back severely. Now that it's in our raised beds, it's starting to take off.

Speculative Losses Versus Real Ones

Just a thought that popped into my head as I clicked around the Interweb Tubes this morning ...

As a part of the world's continuing fixation on the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, Bloomberg is reporting that there may be a crack in one of the containment vessels. Some workers have suffered severe radiation exposure.

“It’s very possible that there has been some kind of leak at the No. 3 reactor,” Hidehiko Nishiyama, a spokesman at the Japan Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, said in Tokyo today. While radioactive water at the unit most likely escaped from the reactor core, it also could have originated from spent fuel pools stored atop the reactor, he said ...

Two plant workers were hospitalized yesterday with radiation burns after stepping in the water, which was found to have radiation levels 10,000 times higher than water used in reactor cooling, Nishiyama said earlier today.

While we worry about possible future deaths due to radiation, it's a good bet that real people are dying real deaths right now due to a lack of electricity. For example, in the areas without power, what are the people who require dialysis doing? I'm sure you can think of plenty of other examples of lives threatened because of prolonged power outages, particularly in an area where transportation is problematic.

PINEAPPLE BIRDS

Things Required:

1 Pineapple

Carrots

Cherry tomatoes

Cloves

Satay sticks

Toothpicks

Any salad for the filling
(I have made a mixed vegetable salad with mayonnaise)

Method:

1. Cut the pineapple lengthwise into two halves.The leaves should be equally divided in the both pieces.

2. Carefully cut out the entire long piece of the core for the neck.

3. Scoop out the remaining pulp.

4. Carve the core to make a head and neck.

5. Fix the neck with the satay sticks.

6. Use cloves for the eyes.

7. Make a beak and a crown with a carrot and fix with toothpicks.(break the toothpicks and use smaller pieces)

8. Fill the birds with any salad.

9. Decorate the edges with cherry tomatoes.

Create 'N' Carve
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15 in 15 - Week 3

It's time for my weekly weigh in. I will admit, I was not too thrilled about stepping on the scale this week. I had made some brownies earlier in the week and I was very afraid that they would catch up with me by the end of the week. Somehow it managed not to!

So this week I have lost.....

- 0.4 lbs

That brings me to a total weight loss of -0.6 lbs (same as from week 1). I am hoping to get my 30 day shred videos in the mail soon so I can start using those and really start to see some weight loss. 

Until next time.... 

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