The little bastards like to hide in the house in the winter in closets and bedding. Loxosceles rufescens - European cousin to the Brown Recluse, fortunately not packing the same punch. Just a nasty itchy, achey welt exactly where I can´t reach to scratch it.
Started a pretty post on shutters, then realized that a) mostly they´re interior shutters in Galicia and b) we won´t be able to afford any for a while. Started a post on Ruth Stout, and discovered that an interesting video has been removed from Youtube, so I´ll wait.
Been spending some time number crunching for the next phase on the house, hopefully updating soon.
So in the meantime an amusing animal video. I laughed.
The harp is one instrument that I haven´t seen featured in Galician music. So I was pleasantly surprised when I caught a performance of Rodrigo Romani with a selection from his new CD ¨As Arpas de Breogán¨ on RTVG.
Mr. Romani was a founding member of the group Milladoiro, recording
12 records and is also a founder of the Municipal School of Traditional
and Folk Music in Vigo .
In the contemporary folk of
As Arpas de Breogán there´s a pleasing jazz fusion component along with
the melifluous vocals threading through his original compositions and
adaptations of traditional tunes.
Romani has three solo albums - Albeida (2001), Cantos Caucanos (2003) and Breogan Harp (2012).
Folks on this side of the pond may not necessarily be aware, but today is marked by a major sporting event in the US. A marathon of emotion, spectacle, it´s a highly anticipated annual event that I know I look forward to every year.
It has everything - action, athleticism, controversial calls by the ref, a glittering half-time show, skycam blimp shots and politically questionable ploys for ratings grabbing (I find it exploitative to put cheerleading hedgehogs in tutu skirts - inexcusable pandering in my view). Cue video.
Puppies and kittens are flown in from shelters all over the country to participate. Per an article in the LA Times ¨Last year's Puppy Bowl marked the channel's highest day of Web traffic, with 5.5 million page views and 1.4 million videos streamed. . .¨
So pull up a bucket of wings and some nachos and settle in for an old fashioned American cheesy good time.
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