I'm launching a Welsh-language crossword puzzle - I'll try to do this weekly and maybe intersperse with Welsh or Welsh-American history puzzles, too. I'm using the Lampeter University online dictionary and my hard copy Welsh-English dictionary to do it, so if you're a speaker and I mess up, please let me know! I thought this would help me learn and give other people who want to learn another something to send them to the dictionary and improve all our vocabulary.

Below is a link to download and print a pdf - I haven't got technical enough yet to make one we can do online, but that's coming!

animalCrossword.pdf '

Anyone know who this is? Great pic, Ddraig Goch very visible! I'm assuming it's someone from the Arizona Welsh Society but whoever it is, nice pullover, dude!

More signs - some of them crass and tacky, some boring, many clever and very funny - here:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-100-best-signs-at-the-rally-to-restore-sanity

So Ceri's started his "top blogger" competition and had me make some graphics for it, little sheep for No. 1, No, 2 and No. 3 spots and they're in the network gifts. I was thinking I could make whatever custom gifts people want so if you think of some things we should have in our gifts, let me know. At first we were thinking of red kites but we weren't sure that would be recognizable, so I did sheep with respectively gold, silver and bronze crowns..

The Left Coast Eisteddfod prose and poetry event this year will be streamed live on AmeriCymru by the able technical expertise of Gerald Lewis of Ty Bach Productions. Ty Bach will also produce a DVD that can be purchased after the event for anyone who'd like to have it.

Spots are available for graphic ads to be aired during the broadcast and ad space will also be available on the DVD and a few spots in the program for the event. Your ad, your company, your logo, your product could be broadcast during this year's event. You never know where it might end up or who might see it.

Anyone interested in having an ad in the broadcast, the DVD or the program, please contact us at americymru@gmail.com or speak to Ceri.

Ceri and I have been having a great time meeting people, seeing people and selling books by Welsh authors at NAFOW. A lot of people want books and it's been great fun talking about them.

Today the Great Plains Welsh Heritage Project table was absolutely surrounded by Rhys Bowen fans crowding in to get her to sign a pile of her books provided by local Portland mystery book store, Murder By The Book . Despite being right across from them, I couldn't see her at all, there were so many people.

Authors Lyn and Sharon Clarke also brought books to sell and Lyn was very generous and gave Ceri and I a copy of Gringo Revolutionary , the hard-to-find biography of Caryl ap Rhys, who invaded Tijuana flying the red flag during the Mexican Revolution, a very interesting guy and I'm sure a very interesting story. Thank you again, Lyn, we deeply appreciate it!

Last year's David Western Lovespoon winner Howard Evans very kindly and generously brought the 2009 spoon to NAFOW with him from Montana to show it off and help sell a lot of tickets for this year's spoon drawing. Good luck to everyone, David is doing this year's spoon with artist Laura Jenkins-Gorun and it is completely amazing!

It's the second day of the 2010 North American Festival of Wales and Ceri and I are sitting at the AmeriCymru table in the Welsh Marketplace. They've set up a tea room with never-ending hot tea and bakestones or Welsh cakes and I've drafted my oldest son to help out there, working being good for the development of teen character.Last night harpist Bronn Journey and soprano Katherine Journey gave a concert in the evening, following the opening ceremonies. Today there are Welsh language seminars, film showings and other events - see the NAFOW calendar for their schedule.Our table is across from the Great Plains Welsh Heritage Project , in Wymore, Nebraska, which operates the Great Plains Welsh Heritage Centre , an interpretive center of the history of Welsh communities in the midwest with film room, exhibits, a Welsh garden and a complete collection of Y Drych, the American Welsh language newspaper published since the 1800s and is the oldest ethnic newspaper in the United States.In addition to memberships and translations of Y Drych, today they're selling copies of the second edition of Hanes Cymru America . The author, Rev. R. D. Thomas, visited and chronicled US Welsh communities in 1872, recording their locations, the names of their inhabitants, descriptions of their communities. This edition was translated to English by Martha and Phillips Davies and is an amazing resource for anyone doing research on Welsh history in the USA. Author Peter Griffiths brought copies of his novel, Tongue Tied , and spent the day at his table meeting and talking to people in the market with his wife, Yvonne.Peter's interview with AmeriCymru can be found here . Painter Gwenllian Baldock is exhibiting and selling absolutely gorgeous gutta paintings on silk and some smaller pieces on silk scarves and prints.Tonight is the Cr Godre'r Aran concert and more tomorrow.

I am sadly stuck home today with two sick small children so it's only the life online for me! Today the incomparable Mr. John Good leads the Gymanfa Ganu at Bryn Seion Church in Beavercreek and I'm extremely sorry to miss this. If you haven't seen John perform, he's incredible! He does a Welsh language poetry seminar that's really amazing. Ceri and I and three kids have gone to Bryn Seion the last three years and I've loved it, it's a lovely day in the beautiful woods with a bunch of people enjoying singing together. If you have a chance to go and experience it, please do, it's a lot of fun, a beautiful site of Welsh-American history and good fellowship.