Davin Lives

2022-2024 Old Blog

Author: Davin Peterson

  • Pearl Harbour War Museum

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    We visited the Pearl Harbor War Museum while staying in Hawaii the museum is a spectacular tribute to dear American war machine and showed us various types of weaponry including battleships jet fighter planes helicopters and submarines.

    Battleship

    We visited a spectacular battleship with enormous guns on the deck and impressive construction. There were some very good exhibits describing some of the battles that were held in the Pacific against Japanese bombers and the Japanese Navy

    The fighter jets were also very impressive and it was interesting to see the evolution of military aviation over the course of several decades with examples of different types of fighter jets and helicopters that we could look at up Close. and touch.

  • Desert Drawings

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    These are a collection of drawings I while I was traveling along the Silk Road in 2000 AD through Egypt Jordan and Syria visiting ancient ruins.
    Petra Monastery
    arch of gods

    Wadi Rum Sandstone formations

  • Soup stones

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    A favourite stone soup stew, this is a plant based beefless Irish stew. Adding a half pint of Guinness will also improve the flavour.

    Stone Soup Ingredients

    • 1 stalk celery
    • 2 Soup Stones*
    • 3 diced potatoes
    • 4 cloves garlic chopped
    • carrots
    • salt, pepper
    • olive oil
    • butter
    • oregano
    • sage
    • rosemary
    • whorcstershire sauce
    • thyme
    • red wine (vinegar)
    • 6 cups bone broth
    • Freshly caught rabbit, sausage or brisket*
    • tomatoes or tomato paste
    • tomatoes
    • chives onions of leeks
    • flour 1/4 cup

    **It is important to bless the stones and be grateful for all of the ingredients. Thank the rabbit, a well dressed rat or other beefless plant based substitute can be added instead for protein. Moths, crickets or grubs can also work.

    Preparation Method

    Sautee butter and garlic in the bottom of a large soup pan on medium heat for 3 minutes or until browned,

    Add the onions and leeks, and add the meat or plant substitute.

  • Hawaii 50

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    We just spent the last week of June in Hawaii for my sister’s 50th birthday. It was a great family re-union. it was a great chance for our family to get together and for the cousins to hang out. We went surfing great tuna poke and sunsets on the North Shore.

    family

    We also visited the Polynesian Cultural Centre and the War Museum, cruised through a couple of missiles and went swimming with the turtles.

    We visited the Pearl Harbor War Museum while staying in Hawaii the museum is a spectacular tribute to dear American war machine and showed us various types of weaponry including battleships jet fighter planes helicopters and submarines.

    We visited the USS Missouri which was a spectacular battleship with enormous guns on the deck and impressive construction. There were some very good exhibits describing some of the battles that were held in the Pacific against Japanese bombers and the Japanese Navy

    The fighter jets were also very impressive and it was interesting to see the evolution of military aviation over the course of several decades with examples of different types of fighter jets and helicopters that we could look at up Close. and touch.

  • 2.5 Million stem cells

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    Its another trip to Houston to pickup a boost. These are my own cells that were harvested last year and then cloned at Hope Bio labs in Houston TX.

    These cells can then replicate and repair muscles, skin, organs or hopefully in this case nerve cells and motor neurons.

    Hope Bio comes through again. I’m getting 2.5 million stem cells injected into my spine and bloodstream.

    At this point I am willing to take all the help I can get. I am starting to lose mobility in my hands and arms now making it difficult to even type this.

    Leica Picture – Stem Cells
    Davin – IV in hand

  • Drawings from Armenia

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    Architecture from Armenia, Georgia and Drawings from Eastern Europe. Churches and Cathedrals carved from rock thousands of years ago and still in use.

    The Watchtower, in Georgia lit to warn of invading armies
    The Watchtower
    Fortress of Tatev

  • Armenia-Cathedrals

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    These are ancient churches and cathedrals that are still in use today built around 300AD.

  • Diving in Sao Tomme

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    We spent two weeks travelling around the island of Sao Tomme which lies at the center of the world. We flew there from Ghana and stayed in a hostel in the capital.

    Sao Tomme is an island country whose main exports are cocoa, coffee and bananas. People live off the land, fishing and farming in the dense jungle.

    Diving, Dolphins and caves

    In the second week we found a dive shop and did a couple dives together. The water was warm and beautiful blue clear with great visibility and lots of fish.

    Wreck Diving with Dolphins short Video

  • Queen Zenobia

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    Queen Zenobia was the supreme ruler of Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean successfully defeating the Roman Empire in 240 AD and conquering Egypt freeing it from Rome.

    The city of Palmyria Was the capital city for Queen Zenoba’s empire.

    This is the ruins of her palace and Temple.

    In 270, Zenobia launched an invasion that brought most of the Roman East under her sway and culminated with the annexation of Egypt. By mid-271 her realm extended from Ancyra, central Anatolia, to Upper Egypt, 

    Septimia Zenobia (Palmyrene Aramaic: 𐡡𐡶𐡦𐡡𐡩‎, Bat-Zabbai; c. 240 – c. 274) was a third-century queen of the Palmyrene Empire in Syria. Many legends surround her ancestry;

  • Egypt-Temple of Karnak

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    Walls towering stone walls covered in hieroglyphs and pictures of the gods rising up from the desert floor

    Karnak contains many buildings dedicated to the different gods.

    The goddess Hathor