Croak

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Graduation

My granddaughter is graduating in May, Yooray, she is so happy, She plans to go to college in the fall. She has already been accepted at a local University. My sister made her photos for her, she is a amatuer photographer, I think the pictures are beautiful as is my granddaughter.

Sports News

HOUSTON (AP) - Houston Rockets forward Carl Landry was shot in the left leg early Tuesday while driving near his home. The injury was minor, and the team said Landry was treated at a hospital and released.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j9X8B9GM28gwO8kzvLqdU1qNbNjwD96VTBG01

No damage to Hamels' elbow, will throw Thursday
http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=mlb/news/news.aspx?id=4220392

Got Mercury?

The Got Mercury? website includes a calculator for determining mercury levels in fish .
Species with characteristically low levels of mercury include shrimp, tilapia, salmon, Pollock, and catfish (FDA March 2004). The FDA characterizes shrimp, catfish, Pollock, salmon, and canned light tuna as low-mercury seafood, although recent tests have indicated that up to 6 percent of canned light tuna may contain high levels
The FDA, like California, only warns women of child bearing age to avoid fish with the highest levels of mercury; they include: shark, swordfish, king mackerel and tilefish http://www.fda.gov/oc/opacom/mehgadvisory1208.html.
Many consumers are not aware, for example, that a 115 pound women consuming just two cans of albacore tuna in a week puts her 310% above what the EPA and FDA considers safe; a child weighing 45 pounds eating just one can of albacore tuna per week would get a dose 420% higher than the EPA/FDA's safe limit of .1 microgram/kilogram-day of mercury exposure. The same person consuming swordfish would have mercury level of more than three times that high.

Illustration Friday

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Opening Day Braves Baseball

Are you a fan, I am, opening day is coming soon. Baseball, baseball,baseball.

Spring is Coming!

Get ready for fun in the outdoors, I know that you are itching to get out there.

It had been a hard winter, and we are ready.

Water Filters

Consider getting a water filter, and stop purchasing and throwing away so many plastic bottles.

http://www.brita.com/us/?WT.srch=1

http://www.brita.com/us/products/water-pitchers/

Watery Wednesday

I never have been one to like taking pictures of cemeteries and tombstones, but on my recent visit to my daughters and mother-in-laws gravesites I noticed the beautiful creek that runs through the property. My granddaughter was with me, I said I wish I had brought my camera . She said I have mine, she is a teen-ager she takes hers almost everywhere. She took these shots of the creek for me to post to Watery Wednesday, she did an excellent job.

Victorian Bushfire Appeal 2009

Victorian Bushfire Appeal 2009
The 2009 Victorian Bushfire Fund to assist individuals and communities affected by devastating bushfires in Victoria was launched by the Premier John Brumby in partnership with Red Cross and the Federal Government.http://www.redcross.org.au/vic/services_emergencyservices_victorian-bushfires-appeal-2009.htm

God Bless the World

http://laurensblog.greenfamily.net/ Pray for this couple - they were pregnant with quads and as of today have lost them all.

http://www.andiegrace.blogspot.com/This little girl was just born on the 19th and now is going to require heart surgery.

http://www.dynamicmikelsduo.blogspot.com/This little 4 year old was just diagnosed with leukemia for the 2nd time.

Remember I had you pray for Cora's family? They found out she had cancer and 3 weeks later she died - she was 10 months old? They are raising money to build a playground in her memory and there are a ton of vendors on ETSY who are giving part of their profits to this. You know how much I love etsy - there is a ton of cute stuff that will help build this fund - go check it out here.

http://www.addieandalex.blogspot.com/this family is a March of Dimes ambassador family for Alabama - go here to see how you can help support them.

Prayer changes everything, visit Kelly's site, and find out more .

http://www.kellyskornerblog.com/

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If Call and Response's Carrie Clough is the Nick Drake of indie rock, then Leslie Feist is the Colin Blunstone. Her voice has that warm, buttery ooze that melts down the microphone with the same gentle timbre heard on Blunstone's "Caroline Goodbye." Feist's musical history maps out almost as nomadically as her own travels. She cut her pearly whites in a Calgary punk band called Placebo (not to be confused with the eyeliner-and-nail-polish-wearing British guys) and got to play her very first show opening for the Ramones after winning a battle of the bands contest while still attending high school. Needless to say, that show changed her life. She spent the next half-decade touring in a van and screaming her voice out -- literally. Medical doctors told her that she would never be able to sing again, but doctors say a lot of things. She relocated to Toronto and hibernated for half a year with a guitar and a four-track, honing her layering skills to a razor-like sharpness. The guitar replaced her voice for a while, and she dove deep into barbed pop architecture, later playing guitar for (and touring with) By Divine Right. Working with a voice specialist over the years paid off and in 1999 Feist recorded her first solo album, Monarch (Lay Down Your Jeweled Head). A year later she moved in with Vice Magazine poster girl Peaches and opened up for the electroclash artiste on her first American tour. After that, she joined Broken Social Scene for their second album and toured the U.S. and Europe with them before cranking out her sophomore album, Let It Die, in Paris with Chilly Gonzales and Renaud Letang in 2004. Her solo material can be categorized as indie pop, but Feist balances sophisticated baroque styling with a trip-hop derivative of her own invention that weaves in and out of classic folky frameworks while her ethereal vocals layer over one another in gossamer harmonies. When she plays solo, Feist is the master of the looping effect pedal. She'll strum her electric guitar and catch a riff on it and then pick out a catchy arpeggio to stack on top before looping up to five layers of her heavenly vocals to sound like a one-woman pop symphony. If you see her listed in the pages of your local alt weekly, do yourself a favor and throw down whatever cover they're charging to see her. You will be moved.
- Eric Shea

God Bless the Whole World No Exceptions

Drawing I am working on.

Its Mardi Gras time in the south. My late mother-in-law,(Nell) made this pin with matching earrings.
She made a lot of jewerly, and gave most of it away, I don't think she sold hardly any of it. I inherited all of her jewerly making supplies, I have made a few things, but
I don't think I will ever be as good as she was.

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Gail

Skywatch Friday

Our American flag proudly waving in the wind.

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Gail

Watery Wednesday

Spring Break

is coming soon, the weather is getting warmer everyday.

The beach is calling,can't wait.

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Gail

Mardi Gras

The Original Mardi Gras
For weeks, the streets of downtown Mobile are filled with the sights and sounds of live marching bands, brilliant-colored floats and of course the crowds of parade goers that is Mardi Gras in Mobile.

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Gail