OCD's support is expanding!

Hello everyone! This is the 120th compilation post of OCD's latest curation efforts. It has been known that OCD has been supporting leading niche communities under its Community Incubation Program. However, there are still a lot of other niche communities not supported by OCD. This curation initiative will help in supporting those communities.

This newest curation effort aims to encourage authors to post in appropriate communities even if those communities are not under the incubation program. This will also encourage users to explore more into the different communities in Hive.

OCD curators and community leaders will find posts from other niche communities and recommend them for an upvote. Unlike those communities in the incubation program where curation is focused, this curation initiative is spread out. This will help find undervalued posts from smaller communities that deserve support.

This will highlight both the author and the community where the post is located. This way, smaller niche communities can focus on growing their subscribers and increasing the engagements within their respective communities. A small boost goes a long way.

Speaking of boost, here are the curated posts for this batch:

After spending our first day at Hersheypark while visiting my brother in Pennsylvania, it was on to day two. We woke up at a decent time Sunday morning and eventually made our way towards Lititz, which some a few may know as "America's coolest small town". I had been to Lititz once before, more on my visit last year here. This time, instead of walking around the cool little town, we were stationed just outside of town.

The first time I came in contact with Mandalas was about 12 years ago, I was looking with my partner at that time to do an activity that connected us with relaxation, tranquility and well being and we came to the workshop of Gisela Garcia, a Venezuelan artist great in Mandala Art, with a therapeutic approach. At first I thought that I would not have the ability and creativity to make an artistic Mandala and then, as we got deeper into the information, I realized that this was the least relevant aspect because what was really important was the journey to the center of your being that this tool promoted (which is just one of our objectives with this initiative).

The great landscape that did not portend nature was just indescribably beautiful in this summer heat on Sunday and we decided to share the wonderful lunch with the beautiful Laura and the forest environment we took to fly to an infinitely beautiful walk

I expected the weekend as always and I was more than pleased that the rain decided to give us a break. Saturday started with overcast and it was not so bad when we went outside with the dog. Nothing interesting in the park and we head to the block where the kestrel likes to stay. But the bird wasn't there. Since we were not far from the pet shop we went to buy some cat food and along the road we were just passing the monument when we heard a noise that we thought comes from the trees behind. On our way back we heard that noise again and decided to have a look. Not sure what bird was making it, but suspecting the kestrel to be about. Behind the monument is the hill where from time to time we climb in search of new birds. And hubby saw it first, not one, but three kestrels on a tree not very far. I could not risk to climb the rickety stairs overgrown with grass and prickle and left hubby to get close. He got some really nice shots and I was trying to catch the birds when they flew. My photos were horrible and I am afraid I have nothing to show.

You can imagine that I am completely perplexed, not knowing what to do with this situation LOL. I was planning to hunt them down for destroying my crops but now they have a little hero who would protect them devotedly. There was really one occasion when I have brought out a little shovel and my daughter seemed to have foreseen that something evil will be done by Mommy.

Now that slowly everything looks like getting back to normal after more than 3 months with the Covid19 quarantine, we decided to go to a river just near Le Pouce mountain in Mauritius to fish some river prawns...

I remember the last time I went fishing for river prawns was more than 2 years ago...

I come from a religious family(Christian) and most folks fast during the lent period to mimic the 40 days of fasting that Jesus did!

The fasting most folks do is always due to religious reasons, here where I come from I have heard and read stories of people who fast so that God can help them in certain endeavours.

People fast so that God can help them solve some problems like school fees, rent and the like.

I am not sure about the correlation of religious fasting to these solving of problems, you just have to be aware that coincidently most of these people who fast have their problems solved, the way it happens I do not know and I do not want to into that discussion now!

This weekend, including the days of this week themselves, have been really full of activities of all kinds, which is why I have not been able to spend as much time on Hive as I would like; however, I always manage to find some time for the blog. Precisely, today I will tell you about the many activities I did this past weekend, is the title and the main image of the post curious? Keep reading, at the end you will understand the reason for that title. Having said all that, let's get started!

Greetings friends of the Geek Zone community this is my first publication of this kind even though I am a big fan of technology and Geek stuff apart from video games of course.

This will be my first unboxing, so I will do my best, since I don't have much experience in this.

Two days ago I got my Carbon Black controller for Xbox X/S series, I bought it through mercado libre, because that's where I got the best price, honestly I buy a lot online and mercado libre is always a good option in terms of price.
The control cost me approximately $58 USD but I have seen it more expensive between $60 and $75 USD.

Without further ado let's go with the unboxing.

I have already found several places in Lower Austria and Burgenland where these wonderful colorful birds live in the sand holes of a hill. But probably the best place is in Burgenland near the Lake Neusiedler where I took these pictures. There should also be some places in Upper Austria where they live during the summer but as far as I know these are all on private property, so I am not able to get there, and the people who own this land don't let photographers like me take pictures of these wonderful birds. So I don't have a chance to take pictures of them here in Upper Austria. Whenever I want to photograph them, I need to drive to Lower Austria or Burgenland or even Hungary where their breeding spots are not on private land.

This concludes this batch's curation report. We would like to congratulate those who are featured and supported. Keep up the good work and continue to explore Hive Communities.