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Hello dear blogging friends...So sorry I am a little behind in my Valentine's Day post...I hope you all had a wonderful day filled with Love and Laughter! 

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My chalkboard decorated for Valentine's Day...I know I've said it in previous posts, but I absolutely L♥VE my ChalkInk Markers.

I baked two giant cookies for my family to enjoy!

"Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing."  Jim Rohn

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Thank you so much for stopping by for a visit

♥ Kim

p.s.  Take a minute to check out the Chalkink Markers website.  They have a great selection of markers and cute chalkboards.  Click Here to visit their website.

SUNDAY POETRY: "THE STARS GO OVER THE LONELY OCEAN"

The Stars Go Over the Lonely Ocean

-Robinson Jeffers (1940)

Unhappy about some far off things

That are not my affair, wandering

Along the coast and up the lean ridges,

I saw in the evening

The stars go over the lonely ocean,

And a black-maned wild boar

Plowing with his snout on Mal Paso Mountain.

The old monster snuffled, "Here are sweet roots,

Fat grubs, slick beetles and sprouted acorns.

The best nation in Europe has fallen,

And that is Finland,

But the stars go over the lonely ocean,"

The old black-bristled boar,

Tearing the sod on Mal Paso Mountain.

"The world's in a bad way, my man,

And bound to be worse before it mends;

Better lie up in the mountain here

Four or five centuries,

While the stars go over the lonely ocean,"

Said the old father of wild pigs,

Plowing the fallow on Mal Paso Mountain.

"Keep clear of the dupes that talk democracy

And the dogs that talk revolution,

Drunk with talk, liars and believers.

I believe in my tusks.

Long live freedom and damn the ideologies,"

Said the gamey black-maned boar 

Tusking the turf on Mal Paso Mountain. 

As for the story behind this incredible image of a star ploughing through interstellar space, complete with a bow wave of ultraviolet light (from Astronomy Picture of the Day):
 

To 17-century astronomers, Omicron Ceti or Mira was known as a wonderful star whose brightness could change dramatically in the course of about 11 months. Mira is now seen as the archetype of a long-period variable star. Surprisingly, modern astronomers have only recently discovered another striking characteristic of Mira, an enormous comet-like tail nearly 13 light-years long. Billions of years ago Mira was likely similar to our Sun, but has now become a swollen red giant star, its outer layers of material blowing off into interstellar space. Fluorescing in ultraviolet light, the cast off material trails behind the giant star as it plows through the surrounding interstellar medium at 130 kilometers per second. The amount of material in Mira's tail is estimated to be equivalent to 3,000 times the mass of planet Earth.

Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, GALEX, C. Martin (Caltech), M. Seibert(OCIW)

Truman Weekend

BalletGirl has a report to write about on Harry S. Truman so we thought it would be a bit fun for her and the rest of the family if we went up to the local museum to learn so stuff. Course once on the road and only a minute away BabyGirl got sick in the backseat, all over her jacket but she immediately said she was fine and ready to go forward. It was cold but we still went, BalletGirl even gave

REMEMBRANCE

This is a slow, moody, beautiful music video for the song Doppelganger by Efterklang (Danish: remembrance, or reverberation), with choppy, haunting images of familiar shorelines, familiar species, topside and underwater. Not something to watch if you're in a hurry.

Efterklang Doppelganger (official music video) from Matthew Brown on Vimeo.

CAT IN A BATHYSPHERE

No means no. Kitty never listens.

Her First REAL Valentine's From a Boy

Today was BalletGirl and BabyGirl's Valentine's Day Party at school, of course this meant the typical school party and fun. Earlier we got to address the Valentine's Day Cards for the exchange, now for BabyGirl we were only allowed to address the from as they didn't want kids feeling left out that some got certain sayings and others didn't. She was bummed as she wanted a specific Valentine for

BREATHE IN SILVER

Those amazingly talented sisters at Raw Art Letterpress and Lulu Bug Jewelry have done it again, transforming Colette's gorgeous print into a stunning necklace by Sue:

"This piece is made of fine silver, and measures approximately 5/8" wide by a touch under 7/8" tall. The finish is brushed and oxidized and it comes on a 16" drawn cable chain. If you'd prefer 18" just note it at checkout, no extra charge."

I just ordered mine, only $36. Looking forward to wearing it as my totem and reminder.

 Here a few more of their collaborative pieces:

 

  

There's a Dog is Love, too.

And here are a couple that haven't crossed the sister mind-meld yet, but might some day:

  

Colette's  sweet heart molecular valentine. 

 

Sue's anatomical heart necklace in silver and concrete.

Breathe.