Tonight, Jeanie and I went out to dinner as a belated anniversary celebration. Then we enjoyed a few episodes of Damages. We got the first season on DVD through Netflix. Oh my goodness! This is one of the best shows I have seen in a long time. Glenn Close does an amazing job playing a lawyer named Patty Hewes who is a real bi#$ch! It is so very intense and you don’t know what is coming next. Still not sure who are the good guys or the bad guys. The lyrics to the theme song say, “When I am through with you… there won’t be anything left.” It really fits the show. I can hardly wait for the next DVD. Erin tells me it is online. We might have to watch it that way so we don’t have to wait.
I didn’t realize how long it has been since I posted any Molly photos on the blog. I am faithful to upload them to Picasa, so if you are needing a molly fix, you can always get them here… Here are they latest and a few earlier batches that I missed. Enjoy.
This weekend was a long holiday from work for me. I didn’t have enormous plans, but I did have hopes of making headway on some of my many projects. Unfortunately, I didn’t factor in illness. Started feeling bad Friday afternoon and have been under the weather since then. No fun at all.
Molly
I had to put Molly second because if I hadn’t, no one would have read the part about my being sick and I wouldn’t have gotten any sympathy. And now, here’s Molly!
Creative artistic expressions light me up. Watching this video, I realize that at another time in my life, I felt a need to try everything. I would have been thinking of copying the technique to do it myself. Now, I find that I am still aware of “how it is done”, I am free to sit back and marvel at the creativity of the artist (Oren Lavie). Tasteful music along with… well you have to see it for yourself (about 4 minutes)…
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Jeanie and I spent this past weekend in the Mtns of NC. Our main purpose was just to get away and take a break from the pressure cooker that life has been lately. This was our first time at a Bed and Breakfast and I think we chose well. The Mast Farm Inn is an old house that has been restored as a B & B. They treated us very well! We used to live up there and still have lots of friends in the area, but we chose not to let anyone know we were coming. We just didn’t know what the weekend would hold. We did end up visiting with several good friends. Other highlights:
I visited my trees. Last year I wrote about my job planting trees. There was one particular site that was near where we lived that I have visited many times. They have gotten rather large! I wonder if they will be harvested anytime soon for lumber. (click the photo to see it larger)
We have wonderful memories of hiking at Price Lake, so we took a trip around “memory trail”, which was a muddy mess in one section. It was cloudy and cool at first, but by the time we finished, the sun was out and it was a beautiful day.
Since the sun came out, we visited the Lynn Cove Viaduct. I also worked on the construction of this bridge for several months, which I also wrote about last year. It is very cool to visit something so much bigger than I am, but that I played a small role in building.
I started reading Reaching Out, by Henri Nouwen. I wanted a book that would drive me to reflective thought and meditation. Nouwen usually does that well. This was no exception. The timeliness of this message in the place I am in life is remarkable. It feels like Nouwen is interpreting events, thoughts and stirings that I have had over recent months and years.
Finished “A Thousand Splendid Suns”
My sister-in-law recommended this to me (and loaned it to me too). A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini reminds me a lot of his earlier work the Kite Runner. The setting is Afghanistan as he follows the lives of two women from different backgrounds, but who’s lives come together. Both stories have helped me to understand a little better about the history and ways of life in Afghanistan. If nothing else, when I hear anything about the Taliban, I now have a vivid picture of some very evil men. I recommend both of these books by Hosseini’s. Thanks Cathryn.
Erin’s Latest Accomplishment
I am so very proud of all of my daughters. They are each making their respective marks on the world in huge ways and I am proud of them all. Every once in a while, one of them just takes things completely to the next level and I cannot ignore it. I will not belabor the point and I’m getting too choked up to describe it anyway, please check it out for yourself here. Can’t you see me in her?
Jeanie and I went out to dinner as a belated anniversary celebration. Then we enjoyed a few episodes of Damages. We got the first season on DVD through Netflix. Oh my goodness! This is one of the best shows I have seen in a long time. Glenn Close does an amazing job playing a lawyer named Patty Hewes who is a real bi#$ch! It is so very intense and you don’t know what is coming next. Still not sure who are the good guys or the bad guys. The lyrics to the theme song say, “When I am through with you… there won’t be anything left.” It really fits the show. I can hardly wait for the next DVD. Erin tells me it is online. We might have to watch it that way so we don’t have to wait.
And now, here’s Molly!
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