Tapati Festival

Based on tradition, the 2026 Tapati Festival on Easter Island is expected to be held between approximately January 30 and February 15, 2026, typically occupying the first half of February.

Am fascinated by ancient cultures and their abilities to carve huge, seemingly superhuman, rock statues or monoliths. 

Below is a short video, explaining the progression of views on how the folks moved the huge rock carvings:

Therefore, in honor of the Easter Island Tapati Festival, here are a few items collected from social media and from my photo library, for your amusement.

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Baffling

January 29 is National Puzzle Day!

Below are three 'find the hidden' images that I've borrowed from social media.

You can bigify each image by clicking on them, to make your search easier.

If you scroll 'way down, I've posted the answers upside down, with red circles.

Also below, I've made a really hard jigsaw puzzle too; a close-up of Celestial Paddy O'Malley's fur. 

Find the frog in the cats!

Tricky!

This one is really hard; there's pixelation but persevere!

Click on the image to be directed to a jigsaw puzzle.

Didn't know there were online jigsaw puzzles until I discovered them in blog hops, and I play them 

Every.

Single.

Day.

Let's Hop!

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Explosions and Quakes

Continuing on a theme:

Just a few more days to February!!!

The temps are well below average here, and a fair amount of snow too.

We also have both exploding trees (the sap expands in the cold, shredding the tree), and frost quakes or cryoseisms, (frozen ground cracks during rapid temperature drops, often with loud booms, and vibrations through the earth).

Eastside Cats' antique home has huge icicles hanging in a few locations, and these are not good news.

Weatherguessers give us at least another seven days in the bitter cold, yet we have it better than those who have lost power or had property destroyed by falling branches/trees due to ice, broken water mains flooding houses and streets, and ice jams on rivers, pushing water into more housing.

Stay safe out there, folks, and these sillies are just yucks to get us through it.

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Let's Hop!