Ladybug Soap Contest - Help Us Celebrate Our 27th LIDiversary

In honor of our 27th LIDiversary, we are doing the raffle thing - and all you have to do is leave a comment on this item and let us know that you'd like to be in the running for this month's giveaway.

On June 24, we'll draw a lucky name of a blogster who will win this bar of LadyBug Soap - Ladybug Skips Through A Sunny Orange, Mimosa and Violet Fragranced Bar. Fruity!

So ...... leave a comment and take a chance ........ this MAY be our last giveaway - Joanna Mei will be in her home soon.

Blessings,

Don & Be

...and the winner of the Chinese Goody contest is ......

More from the EPCOT Flower & Garden Festival

We arrived as the gates opened for a morning at
The EPCOT Flower & Garden Show,
avoiding the crowds and getteng some pretty good pics.

Flower Bowls at Italy

Daisy & Be (in an obvious state of quasi-ecstasy about this photo op)

Monarch Butterfly

Swallowtail

A Buckeye feeds on a sponge soaked with sugar water.

A Buckeye (with an identity crisis) dries his wings in the sun.


Flower Bed


Birdhouse Display

Buckeyes - drying their wings, preparing for their first flight.







Japanese Garden Kinetic Art




Ornamental Cabbages


Mother Nature

BJ Thomas

BJ Thomas sings "Hooked On A Feeling" to Be

Looking a bit dazed and unsteady, BJ Thomas took the stage at EPCOT and showed the audience that you can survive years of substance abuse and still sing circles around some of the biggies. Although removed from the audience to an extent as he tried to remember lyrics and concentrated on several belabored fumblings with his mic chord Hey, BJ, ever heard of 'wireless?' he was quite pleasant to the fans when he focused on them and was most comfortable when singing his big hits. "Raindrops", "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry", and "Hooked On A Feeling" were just some of his long string of hits from the 60s.

We sat amazed that he could still do all the vocal twists, turns and gymnastics in the original keys, just like his recordings - he performed several extended versions of songs where he just about scatted to the delight of the audience.

BJ Thomas has got to be one happy man to be where he is, having survived his drug induced past and mismanagement to the tune of 13 million. He could probably do his own "Survivor" series.

Not unlike a somewhat scary apparition,

BJ Thomas heads right toward Be's camera/phone

at EPCOT's "Flower Power" Concert Series.

Jesus Adopts Child from China

Actor James Caviezel ('Jesus' in "The Passion of the Christ") and his wife Kerri are adopting a SN little girl from China. When I read the following about this pair, it revealed the true character of this couple who seems to have escaped the self-centered
Hollywood nutjob mentality......

When the Caviezels went to adopt their second child, they were first offered a healthy baby girl, but a five-year-old girl with a brain tumour from the Guangzhou region of China also needed a home. The Caviezels reasoned that a healthy baby would be more likely to be adopted by another family and that the child with the tumour had a greater need for a home.

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Take a look at this article for a detail of their story.

Yikes!!!! Check out Disney's Chinese Underwear for Kids Ad!

I thought there were customs in China disallowing the public display of skin on certian areas of the human body!?!? Am I wrong?

http://www.slate.com/id/2190209/