Bush's Pennsylvania Wildlife Camera

This video was on This is Colossal.com today, with a link to the You Tube channel of the photographer Robert Bush Sr., located in Pennsylvania. I instantly smiled when I started to watch it; it's a peaceful respite from this crazy world. He has a camera set up to film a spot at a creek where a tree fell across, and you see all kinds of wildlife using the tree to cross over to the other side. I hope you enjoy it.

#Me Too, Now What?

In February, a new limited series debuted on PBS called #Me Too, Now What? and it has been very thought provoking. There are five 30 minute episodes, and if you didn't happen to catch them when they aired, the links below will take you to the website to watch them all.

Executive editor and host Zainab Salbi goes beyond the headlines about sexual harassment to ask how we got here and how we move forward. All episodes now streaming.

Key & Peele

If you are like me, and dreading the next four years under our new orange president, I hope you enjoy this as much as I did.

Claymation Short Film by Alexander Unger

Saw this on This is Colossal.com yesterday, enjoy!

Happy Easter 2016

Happy Easter!

Of course I saw this video on Colossal.com, where I find everything cool. The video is from Jiri Zemanek, check it out, it's a lot of fun!

Egg courtesy of Babs

So this month has been a bit crazy, and I realized just how crazy when I looked and saw that my last post was over a month ago. By this time next week I will be in a new home. Still renting; the house is not new, but it's new to me.

My sister in law messaged me on a Tuesday asking if I could be home to show the house to three realtors on Saturday, and it's been a whirlwind ever since. It's been a bumpy ride, and I was originally under the gun to get things ready for an open house on the 26th, but thankfully due to circumstances with things that had to be repaired before it could be shown, all of that will be happening in April.

The biggest surprise was that I was able to find a place to move to fairly quickly, and I can have the cats. HUGE thanks go to my boss Kelly for helping me find it. It was probably a good thing that I made a big push at the beginning of the month to get things packed and into a storage unit and out of the house so I am not doing all of it at once.

I am doing better than I thought at looking forward and not looking back too much. For as many things that frustrated me here over the years, there are still things I liked about this house. There are pros and cons to everything it seems like, but I am going to make the best of it.

I am going to miss the hens from next door. It was really funny - Friday when I came home from work I found an egg on the front porch. I took it over to Teggart and we were pretty sure it was from Babs, the little Bantam, and my favorite. He gave me an egg from one of the other hens, and I made an omelette for breakfast yesterday. Then in the afternoon she laid another one on my porch! It was just as perfect and small as the first one, so I knew for sure it was her.

Breakfast!

The other funny thing from this weekend was yesterday morning when my friend Jo and I came back from taking a load out to the new place and saw this garage sale sign taped to the light post across from Haggen on Meridian. It reads "Our crap, could be your crap!" Jo spotted it first, and we both cracked up! Big thanks go to Jo for emailing me two Saturday's in a row asking if I wanted some help, because I still feel too guilty and awkward asking for it.

Our crap, could be your crap!

I always knew I had a lot of stuff, but having to pack it up and move it just confirms it! So this next week is going to be crazy, and by the end of the day next Sunday I should be completely out of the house on Queen St. and into the new place. Hopefully it won't be another month before I post again, but I know I will be busy unpacking and figuring out where everything goes!

Rainworks: Rain-Activated Street Art in Seattle

Check out this video of Seattle artist Peregrine Church, who makes public art that is activated by water. It was posted on Colossal.com today.

TED Talk: Guy Winch: The Case for Emotional Hygiene

I really could relate to the message, and he delivers it with humanity and humor.

Crazy Cat Lady

I am definitely guilty of everything but numbers 4 & 8. I even downloaded a MP3 of a cat purring to use as background for meditating - a gal at work said that officially made me a crazy cat lady - as if I wasn't already. But that MP3 was the best dollar I ever spent ☺

Submarine Sandwich by PES

This is another great stop-motion animation featured on Colossal.com. Check it out

Remington the dog & Scamper the kitten

I hate the title that they put on this, but it is a funny little video.

Sit Stay Ride: Official Trailer

This was on I Can Has a Hotdog today. It's the trailer for a movie about 18 or so motorcyclists and their canine companions that ride in their sidecars. The filmmakers are a husband & wife team; Eric and Geneva Ristau. The story said that the movie was funded by a Kickstarter campaign and is available on DVD and Vimeo on Demand with a portion of the proceeds going to the Humane Society. 

TED Talk - Eduardo Briceno

The Power of belief - mindset and success is the topic. It's pretty interesting, and funny, because it dovetails with a Carolyn Hax column today about giving false praise to children, and the harm that it does.

Slow Jam The News with Brian Williams and Jimmy Fallon

OMG this is hilarious!

Time Lapse Cloud Video from Alex Schueth

Check out this time-lapse video of a cloud formation called Undulatus Asperatus by Storm Chaser Alex Schueth during a storm over Lincoln, Nebraska in summer 2014. It was over on Colossal.com today. It is just under a minute, and if you love thunderstorms like I do, I recommend taking a moment to watch. 

Two Kittens in Poland Walk in to a Park.....

I subscribe to the YouTube channel of a guy in Poland named Krzystof Smejlis for hilarious videos of his cats Bobo & Nikita. He got Nikita over a year ago as a rescue kitten, and she is a character with a capitol C. She is so playful and talkative, and a perfect foil to the laid-back Bobo.

A week ago he started posting some new videos of these two kittens that he has taken in, but he can't keep, and OMG, they are so funny to watch. He has this teeny, tiny, little apartment, and it's barely enough room for Bobo & Nikita, but I bet he really would love to keep them if he could. This is the third video, and it's the best yet, enjoy!

Woodworker Frank Howarth

Over on Colossal.com today there is a post on woodworker Frank Howarth who has his own YouTube channel called Frank Makes, for the stop animation films he makes of (at least some) of his projects. Definitely worth a look-see.

GoPro HD: Cats vs Laser

Yesterday was World Cat Day, and this was on LOL Cats as part of the celebration. It is a kick, with the music and the editing, it feels like a nature show watching a tiger in the wild hunting it's prey.

We have beautiful weather still and I was going to start stripping the drafting table top that Susan shipped me this winter, but ended up cutting out a bunch of dead branches out of the snowball bush. I am absolutely beat! I cut out 25 to 30% off it, and my entire body aches. True to form I just went at it whole hog and spent half the day working on it.

Hot Dogs and Cool Cats

I'm on I Can Has a Hotdog part of the I Can Has Cheezburger website and saw this video - oh my gosh! It's just 15 seconds of absolute sweetness with a baby and a puppy that looks just like Snoopy

When Is a Door Not a Door? When It's Ajar

And last, but definitely not least is my beautiful Boo in her favorite position.

Boo

OK Go - The Writing's On the Wall

Some great optical illusions in the latest video from the band OK Go

Look Up by Gary Turk

I saw this online yesterday and wanted to share, enjoy