Here and Now...What's Happening?

[ulli]

Posted by Marianne (here)
Now I'm thinking about chocolate ... LOL

It's not yet 9 AM here and you might think it's too early in the morning for chocolate.




Ulli, best wishes on your jewelry venture. It sounds like exciting fun ... wish I could ditch the day job and come make jewelry with you!

We will one day...if we don't become too distracted with each other's company,
which is what happened whenever Yukondiva came over.

Actually, I would love to have this group of Avalonians function like a 3D commune one day....
and once a month we would open our Village to visitors and they can buy our food and wares in an open air fair.

There would be music and dance, too.....

[PurpleLama]

Posted by ulli (here)

Posted by Marianne (here)
Now I'm thinking about chocolate ... LOL

It's not yet 9 AM here and you might think it's too early in the morning for chocolate.




Ulli, best wishes on your jewelry venture. It sounds like exciting fun ... wish I could ditch the day job and come make jewelry with you!

We will one day...if we don't become too distracted with each other's company,
which is what happened whenever Yukondiva came over.

Actually, I would love to have this group of Avalonians function like a 3D commune one day....
and once a month we would open our Village to visitors and they can buy our food and wares in an open air fair.

There would be music and dance, too.....

I was getting a flash of that yesterday, when I said you were on my mind. I wouldn't wonder if the jewelry thing might take off.

[Marianne]

Posted by ulli
Actually, I would love to have this group of Avalonians function like a 3D commune one day....
and once a month we would open our Village to visitors and they can buy our food and wares in an open air fair.

There would be music and dance, too.....

Here's what it might look like, the open air fair.

Beautiful jewelry designs, soap, flowers, vegetables and fruit, herbs ...














And of course there will be cats ...

[PurpleLama]

Heck yeah, Junebug is ready.

[Marianne]

heh ... oh, I forgot the food.

[araucaria]

Posted by ulli (here)

Posted by Playdo of Ataraxas (here)
I found a new, interactive weather map of earth that allows you to see the ocean currents in real time. It goes nicely with the wind map, too. I'll post both links:

http://earth.nullschool.net/#current....55,105.69,512
http://hint.fm/wind/

I find the currents map fascinating.
I'm wondering if the Gulf Stream was always a weak as it looks now.


Pity that the wind map shows the US only.
We (in Costa Rica) have currently some high winds in the higher elevations...
not down here in our valley, which is protected by the mountains.

The gulf stream seems pretty ok from here where we have had a wet but mild (and windy) winter so far - fairly average in other words. I've just been watching the geoengineering vid posted by Bill showing the US combining extremes of hot and dry and cold and wet. This puts a different complexion on things seen from over here in Europe. However global weather and other events are or appear to be, they always seem to be very heavily weighted in America's (dis)favor.

[dan33]

Greetings

[ulli]

Oh, and Christine Lori could come too...
she would be wearing the apron that says 'local lurker'...hehe...
wink wink...

[dan33]

We all have always, a shield from the core of Avalon.

[Playdo of Ataraxas]

It would be great to gather the Village and villageate. I just made up that word. Villageate (vu-laj-e-ate) verb, to subsist as a village or community. My wife and I were discussing our longing of leaving the status quo for good, and reclusing our selves to a commune among like-minded individuals. PL, the seed may have already been sown! I'll have to revisit the idea with her of building that Earth Ship.

Ulli, I thought the same thing about the US wind map. It sure would've been interesting to me to see how windy it is in Tierra Del Fuego at any given moment. It's fun to zoom in closely on an area in the map, and see the wind blow.

I'm sitting here waiting for the 5:00 whistle to blow. Listening to Jethro Tull:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=UpEvIMWNbiY

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=NxpfxKojQYc

[Marianne]

I'm sitting here waiting for the 5:00 whistle to blow.

Me too, Playdo. My 5 o'clock whistle blows at 4:00. Pretty soon. Good thing, as I don't have speakers to hear muslc and youtube is blocked by the minions.

[Playdo of Ataraxas]

Ha! I guess freedom to search the internet at work was not listed in the Constitution. Not that anyone is abiding by it anymore, anyhow.

Well, if I didn't have optimism and positivity, I really wouldn't have much else.....

[PurpleLama]

OK, Playdo, now nobody needs to thank you anymore, at 7777 thanks.

[Calz]

Posted by 1inMany (here)

You might not think that 51F (10C) is cold.

11 PM
Thu

Feb 6

Mostly Cloudy

1°F

Mostly Cloudy

FEELS LIKE: -8°




Ding Ding Ding ... yes Johnny ... tell our lucky contestant what she's won ...

[Calz]

Posted by PurpleLama (here)
OK, Playdo, now nobody needs to thank you anymore, at 7777 thanks.

Okay ... thank you meter frozen in time ...

Just doin' my part ...

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=6Ptrc2cWRxU

[meeradas]

My kind of hotel - abandoned. No people.

[Calz]

Posted by meeradas (here)

My kind of hotel - abandoned. No people.

Us shiftworkers are of another breed are we not???


... not quite abandoned ...

[Calz]

Tribute to the Purple one's gardening exploits ...

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=OkvcuZLt_yQ

[chocolate]

Here and Now, sunny and balmy...thinking about village and new houses, and new ditches:

Called Concrete Cloth, the material consists of cement layered between fabric that can bond with water, backed with PVC.

http://www.dezeen.com/2009/11/27/con...ncrete-canvas/

meeradas, that was a set of photos of abandoned places around the world. I remember thinking what it would feel like to step inside...
my kind of place, for mostly the same reason, except that I like the 'feeling' of people's touch and presence collected inside with time. the peeling paint, the worn off stone tiles, the ruffled fabrics... the stuffy air filled with dust and collected fumes, that kind of thing.


dan33, I would take your mushroom for my soup today. It seems it will be enough for 3 of us here. (love it)

[TargeT]

Posted by Calz (here)

Posted by 1inMany (here)

You might not think that 51F (10C) is cold.

11 PM
Thu

Feb 6

Mostly Cloudy

1°F

Mostly Cloudy

FEELS LIKE: -8°

I know right?

it got down to like 75* lastnight... I actually put a blanket on!

We had a horse ride yesterday, Look at this poor guy suffering in February weather: