Hello, blenderz, and Happy Tuesday! Hope everyone is doing well. We're going through another (hopefully quick) heat wave and I'm chugging along with work and wedding preparations. We've finally found a flower person who has availability for our date and we'll meet up with her tomorrow to get an offer. My shoes should also get here today, fingers crossed they fit.

Workouts have not happened in a while but my step count is high so oh well. We're doing another weekend getaway this week, though the hike we have planned will be much less strenuous than the last one. The vistas should be just as beautiful though, so I consider that a great win.

Ok, let's see what I have in my bag of links. First off, would your phone save you from an arrow?

https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_szljsz6Tyr1qi4a8f_720.mp4

This gorilla's reaction to seeing a human baby is so sweet:

https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_sbb69xiGsB1zbh1kr.mp4

This seal is very confused:

https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_se27c3Xktb1a7h98f.mp4

And finally, a puppy gets a bath:

https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_svfqs6Fc9O1w4nksa.mp4

On a more educational note, these portraits taken of Ellis Island immigrants in the early 20th century are fascinating to behold:

https://www.rferl.org/a/united-states-america-politics-society-immigrants/27359707.html

And to close, I'm leaving you on a Romanian doina since that's what the piper in the article put me in mind of. One is more traditional, one modernized.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0jsA1GTZ9M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l5oBPT2WBw

In case you're wondering what a doina is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doina

Ok, blenderz, need to go, I hope you find something interesting in the links. Have a great day!