February 17 marks Chinese and Lunar New Year. This year is the year of the Fire Horse; sometimes called the Fiery Horse.

"Each Chinese Zodiac year has a corresponding element within the cycle. On February 17, 2026, we will enter the Year of the Fire Horse, which concludes on February 20, 2027—‘fire’ being the element, and ‘horse’ the Zodiac sign.

As for what it means, think energy and dynamism. “Fire brings intensity, urgency, and passion, which can feel motivating but also demanding,” says Ada Ooi, an integrative Chinese medicine clinician and the founder of 001 London. “This combination often creates a faster pace of life and a stronger drive to achieve, making it especially important to stay attuned to the body’s limits and energy reserves.”

The first Fire Horse for 60 years (the length of the Zodiac cycle), it may feel like a restless, dynamic time—with the possibility for conflict. The current Zodiac year (which runs January 29, 2025 to February 16, 2026) is the Year of the Wood Snake, which represents the shedding of old stories and habits, recalibrating what works for you and honoring internal intelligence. With the arrival of the Year of the Fire Horse, that clarity demands an external home with decisive, consistent action."

https://www.vogue.com/article/year-of-the-fire-horse-2026

At Birch Grove in the Lucky Dragon Chinese Restaurant, we have this year's free calendar wall decor and horse gift as well as the full scene in the restaurant from years past which includes many other free props. Everything is buy for 0/free to copy.

Enjoy!

**The Bar (Adult Furniture) OUT NOW!**
It's been a while since I don't bring some adult furniture - and we do like our fun!
Out now this versatile Adult Bar Rail packed with animations! I added a nice PBR mirror (hope it works!) but you can easily remove it).
- Sits 4 avatars
- Comes with 945 animations in 744 poses
- Stand and social animations, cuddling, dancing
- Sits two couples in parallel
- FMF/MFM 3somes, and MFMF foursomes

Taxi: hop://sanctumastra.com:8002/StarchildShoppe/114/118/2101

✨ Neue Outfits, neue Abenteuer! ✨
Unsere kleinen Wirbelwinde haben wieder frischen Style im Kleiderschrank – und plötzlich fühlt sich jeder Tag an wie eine Mini‑Premiere. Da wird gedreht, gepost, gelacht und natürlich ganz wichtig: ausprobiert, ob man damit schneller rennen, höher hüpfen oder noch lauter kichern kann.

Zwischen Sternchen, Teddy‑Vibes und Zuckerwatte‑Energie entstehen Looks, die so viel gute Laune versprühen, dass selbst die Erwachsenen kurz überlegen, ob sie nicht auch ein bisschen Glitzer im Alltag gebrauchen könnten.

Kurz gesagt: Die Kids sind bereit für alles, was Spaß macht – und ihre Outfits sowieso. Bühne frei für die nächste Runde Chaos, Kreativität und Kindermagie.

DJ SPOTS AVAILABLE Looking for a DJ spot?

Contact Chris McCracken for an opportunity at The Rendezvous Red Light District, an adult environment with a vibrant club atmosphere. - Saturdays, 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM (Grid Time)

Bring your sound, set the mood, and be part of the experience.

💘 Love is celebrated in the details 💘

For Valentine's Day, create an intimate, refined, and irresistibly romantic corner.

✨ Heart Bar Chair
An elegant gold-colored coffee table, with a refined and luminous design, accompanied by two splendid pink and gold stools with heart-shaped seats.

A set designed for special moments, romantic toasts, and dreamy atmospheres.

Perfect for:
💞 dates
🍷 Valentine's Day toasts
✨ romantic venues or chic private spaces

Every detail is designed to convey sweetness, elegance, and passion, transforming even the simplest encounter into a moment to remember.

💝 Dedicated to Valentine's Day
Because love deserves a special place to sit... and shine.

✨ Available now
💞 Sciattisi Grid
hop://sciattisigrid.it:8002/SciattiShopCenter/215/65/22

✨ February Group Gift at Samsara – “The Buddha Scene” ✨

For February, Samsara offers a peaceful new group gift on the AMV grid: The Buddha Scene.
This detailed décor piece brings a calm, spiritual atmosphere to any space, centered around a serene Buddha figure and a tranquil ritual setting. It’s designed to add a sense of stillness, balance, and quiet beauty to your home or meditation area.
Group members can pick it up in‑world throughout February.
Enjoy the serenity it brings.

Do not search too hard.
In Samsara, gifts reveal themselves when the traveler simply walks with presence.

✨ How to Find the February Gift, The Path of Samsara ✨

From the landing point, turn left and let the wind guide your first steps.
Walk across the open meadow, where every blade of grass remembers a story from a life before.

Ahead, the green bridge awaits, a passage between cycles, a small crossing from the seen to the unseen.
Step over it with calm intention, and continue straight along the path that unfolds before you.

A little further on, your February gift will be waiting,
quiet, patient, and exactly where it needs to be in this turning of the wheel.

hop://alternatemetaverse.com:8002/Samsara/736/479/22

💖 San Valentino è nell’aria… rendilo indimenticabile 💖

Quest’anno sorprendi chi ami con due creazioni pensate per far battere il cuore, tra eleganza, romanticismo e piccoli dettagli che fanno la differenza.

✨ Romance Bar
Un bar romantico dai toni rosa delicati, impreziosito da raffinati dettagli oro.
Completo di due sgabelli rosa e oro con seduta a forma di cuore, perfetti per creare un angolo intimo, elegante e carico d’atmosfera.
Ideale per appuntamenti romantici, locali a tema Valentine o per aggiungere un tocco d’amore al tuo spazio.

🌹 Two Dozen – Rose Bouquet (Indossabile)
Un meraviglioso bouquet di rose rosse e rosa, simbolo di passione e dolcezza.
Oggetto indossabile (Right Bento Holdable), perfetto da regalare alla persona che ti fa battere il cuore o da indossare in una serata speciale.

Nel pacco troverai 3 versioni diverse, per scegliere l’effetto che più ti rappresenta:

✨ Versione con romantiche stelline luminose, per un tocco magico

💕 Versione con delicati cuori fluttuanti, pura atmosfera Valentine

🌹 Versione classica, elegante e pulita, senza effetti

💝 Dedicated to Valentine’s Day
Amore, emozioni e dettagli che parlano al cuore…
perché anche nel virtuale, l’amore merita di essere celebrato.

✨ Disponibili ora
💞 Sciattisi Grid
hop://sciattisigrid.it:8002/SciattiShopCenter/216/64/22

Alina Vehicles :: Opensim's largest Vehicle Store.

hop://login.friends-grid.com:8002/Alina's%20Vehicles/369/301/22

Cars of all kinds trucks and Buses, RV's, So much more

hop://login.friends-grid.com:8002/Alina's%20Race%20Vehicles/934/174/22

All Race cars, F1, Nascar, Indi, Prostock, Touring Cars.

hop://login.friends-grid.com:8002/Drive/418/642/22

Driving for everyone, choose and TP to your track, road, or Circuit. Rez your own vehicle or drive one thats there.

Hot rods, Monster Trucks, Classic Car, Modern Cars,
Indy, Touring cars, Pro Stock cars, F1 cars. ALL DRIVEABLE
Semi Truck, Full Size Rigs, Semi Trailers

2 Regions of vehicles approximately 800 to 900 different vehicles in stock +

Additional Region dedicated for your driving experience, buy or rez your own vehicle

Easy Region Teleporter for easy access or take a segway ride at your leisure

Lots of new things to see i cant list all here.so come over and find things you didnt think you needed

All vehicles drive unless stated

All vehicles can be altered or modified should you need, adjustments or additions happily done on request..

Join us ((HALF-TIME)) Grand Opening of The Rendezvous Redlight District Club
with DJ Cataplexia Numbers bringing the heat!

The Rendezvous Redlight District Club
hop://alternatemetaverse.com:8002/The%20Rendezvous/164/262...

if you want to update your DreamGrid to 7.2094...DON'T DO IT!!!. Your grid will not be able to start since it asks to install Microsoft NetCore 8.0.23, and when you do, it will be left in a loop that will never allow you to start your DreamGrid

Heute ist es nun soweit und unser Karneval-Event findet statt.

Einladung zum

venezianischen Karneval in Eureka

Beginn: ca. 20:00 Uhr

DJ on stream

Primus Caproni

https://lennardmonday.blogspot.com/2026/02/venezianischer-...

Join us for a Fun Party with DJ Anne at Club Spiritwolf! 🌊

🕛 Date: 26-02-08
🕐 Time: 12 PM - 2 PM

Get ready for an unforgettable afternoon filled with great music and good vibes! DJ Anne Host Shadow will be taking all your requests and dedications, so don’t miss out on the chance to party hard with us!

See you at Club Spiritwolf! 🎶✨

Local Coordinates72, 195, 23

In Viewer Linksecondlife:///app/teleport/SpiritWolf/72/195/23

Singularity Paste To Local Chathttp://digiworldz/region/SpiritWolf/72/195/23

HyperGrid HOP addresshop://login.digiworldz.com:8002/SpiritWolf/72/195/23

GRAND OPENING – TODAY

Join us for the Grand Opening of The Rendezvous Redlight District Club
with DJ Cataplexia Numbers bringing the heat!

February 7th - 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM (Grid Time)

The Rendezvous Redlight District Club
Hop:
hop://alternatemetaverse.com:8002/The%20Rendezvous/166/254...

Step into the night, feel the rhythm, and let the beats take you.
Don’t miss the opening everyone will be talking about!

The Rendezvous is located at Alternate Metaverse grid and is a truly adult oriented and sex friendly Region & Resort

Located on the Saints & Sinners Sky Platform

Okay! I've had the region for a couple of days now, and I'm still bouncing around gathering building materials and ideas. The end-goal is to create a space for a library of titillating literature and potential RP.

LOVELY IS COMING BACK
Dear Lovelies
I’ve done some thinking and thank all the folks who have sent messages of support and/or hopes that Lovely will reopen. Well the good news is it will but I will run one show a week rather than two.
Lovely Pier Club will run on alternate Tuesdays 12-2 with DJ Anaguma spinning his amazing mix of Eurobeat, Happy Hardcore, JPop and Kpop starting on Tuesday 17th Feb.
Lovely Space Club will run on alternate Saturdays from 12 grid with DJ Rosa Alekseev plus others. Most weeks we hope to do double headers so we can play till late. First event will be on Saturday 21st Feb with Rosa plus Zen Rieko doing the late show.
And the quizzes will continue.. …Regular quiz on Tuesday shows at the Pier and new spacey geeky nerdy quizzes at the Space Club Saturday shows
XX Bobbi Fox

Saturday January 7th, 2026 @ 2PM GridTime

Come prepared: Download Blender 4.1 - Sketchup and the Sketchup addon for Blender before the workshop!

Download Instructions & Links Here: https://youtu.be/U1RaWxCTeGY?si=n4vBFwPcCm88H2Oo

We will use voice and screen share in Discord in the Cool School Discord Channel https://discord.gg/Us5tbdbj

Cool School - hop://grid.curiosityzone.us:8002/Cool School/186/131/23
Hope to see ya there!

HOW I MAKE VISUAL SHOWS TUTORIAL

I was asked many times about how I create the visual shows such as the ones I made for HIE, just yesterday, the talented artist Tina Bey asked me to explain my process to her. So I decided to create a tutorial in spanish for her, but I quickly realized that this work should benefit more people; with this in mind, I created the English and French versions.
I really hope the tutorial is clear enough to be understood. Anyway I can help you if you are more questions.

The tutorial is available in SOUP section in Cherry Freebies region

pangeagrid.de:8002:Cherry Freebies

DJ KITTY @The Morning Breakfast Show, 6 - 8 am Grid time
Grab your Bacon, Eggs , and hot cup of coffee, and listen to Kitty's Morning Breakfast Tunes, Here at the Amv Landingpoint

We Are looking forward to seeing you all there !

hop://alternatemetaverse.com:8002/Alternate%20Metaverse/34...

OpenCollar 8.4 now available in OS
Fiona's Princess Collar
This collar is full perm and complies with OpenCollar license terms.

Cut and polished Larimar from Baharona, one of Earth's scarcest treasures. These gems, 10,000 times rarer than diamonds, are created when volcanic lava hits the turqouise waters of the Caribbean sea. They are only found in Dominican Republic, the birthplace of the Americas.

This is a beta version. It seems to work but there may be issues I have not yet idenfitied. The apps and rlv restrictions / relay in particular. Welding is possible but has not been tested.
I have purposely included only a few apps, to reduce complexity, until I verify the code is stable.

IMPORTANT NOTE: this collar ships 'unowned'. If you "lock" the collar while it is unowned you will not be able to remove it without cheating.
The best 'first step' is to add an owner (even yourself if you want) before tinkering with the menu selections.

If you need help come see me. If you want to receive important news and updates send me an im and I will add you to my notify list.

I have modified the original OpenCollar sources for OpenSim (tested on OpenSimulator 0.9.3.1, it should work on other versions but not tested).

I updated: oc_core and oc_settings. The big issue has to do with how OpenSim handles LSL dataserver. with 'stock' OpenCollar it tends to barf on reading .settings notecard and theh state is never advanced in oc_core, leaving the collar inactive. I modified the code to resolve this issue. also minor issues like double-starts and notecard parsing timeouts.

Default listen channel is 84 (not 1 as this can conflict with translators in OpenSim).
I made the default safeword "FionaSweet"

This is GPL software, you can do what you wish with it in accordance with the terms of the license. (see fsf.org for details)

hop://hg.holoneon.com:80/Welcome/162/137/26

GRAND OPENING – TODAY

Join us for the Grand Opening of The Rendezvous Redlight District Club
with DJ Cataplexia Numbers bringing the heat!

February 7th - 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM (Grid Time)

The Rendezvous Redlight District Club
Hop:
hop://alternatemetaverse.com:8002/The%20Rendezvous/166/254...

Step into the night, feel the rhythm, and let the beats take you.
Don’t miss the opening everyone will be talking about!

The Rendezvous is located at Alternate Metaverse grid and is a truly adult oriented and sex friendly Region & Resort

Located on the Saints & Sinners Sky Platform

Am Sonntag ab 20:00 Uhr:
Meine glitzernden Lieblingsmenschen,
es ist wieder so weit: Wir werfen Federn in die Luft,
Glitzer in die Haare und sämtliche Hemmungen in die Ecke.
Wir laden euch herzlich zu einer Burlesque Party ein –
mit einem kleinen Showact, der so charmant ist,
dass selbst eure Lachmuskeln erröten könnten.
Kommt, wie ihr wollt:
übertrieben glamourös, herrlich schräg
oder einfach bereit, euch köstlich zu amüsieren.
Hauptsache, ihr bringt gute Laune und eure besten
„Ich hab das extra so gewollt“-Moves mit.

Die EURODANCE Party steigt nun jeden Samstag – aber nicht da, wo ihr sie erwartet! Wir verabschieden uns endgültig von den angestaubten "Party"-Konzepten in OpenSim (OS) und verlegen das Spektakel nach Second Life!

Während die 90% alten Leute in der OpenSim weiterhin ihre abgefuckten "Konzepte" durchkauen können, ziehen wir weiter. Wir haben keine Lust mehr auf Stillstand! Wir machen es jetzt in Second Life – und zwar richtig: virtuell, grenzenlos und mit dem wahren EURODANCE-Feeling!

Seid dabei, wenn wir Second Life wöchentlich zum Beben bringen. Wer den Anschluss nicht verlieren will, kommt rüber!

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Paraoro%20Bay/80/240...

Die ungezähmte Seele des Blues-Rock: Steamhammer

In den späten 1960er Jahren, als die britische Musikszene von einer wilden Mischung aus Blues, Psychedelic und aufkeimendem Progressive Rock durchgeschüttelt wurde, entstand in dem kleinen Küstenort Worthing eine Band, die sich weigerte, in Schubladen zu passen. Steamhammer formierte sich 1968 und verkörperte von Anfang an diesen rohen, erdigen Geist, der die Pubs und Clubs Englands eroberte.

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