So if you’re bored this summer, and it’s still on, give it a watch. Vanessa Redgrave is just lovely, there is an “older” man that is totally “hot” and Amanda Seyfried is one of my favorite young actresses. She’s so fresh faced, so wholesome looking, which is nice for a change, and she’s a great little actress, too.
It was a fun escape, give it a try. ~ jan
If you’re reading this today and you’re over fifty, I have a little poll for you. It’s about wearing sleeveless tops this summer.
Do you dare? Are you brave enough to let those bat wings flap in the breeze. Or maybe you’re one of the rare ones who doesn’t have them.
Personally, I just can’t do it. Oh, I would love to, though, on a hot summer day, but I just can’t bring myself to expose all that Jello. What about you? There is a little poll in the right sidebar underneath the BlogHer ad. Take a minute, tell us what you do. It’s totally anonymous, of course…
~ Jan
Earlier this week, I went with a neighbor to take her dog to the vet. We went to my vet, Dr. Wagner, who has her practice in a little red barn behind her house on a secluded wooded lot. It’s all very Norman Rockwell, no computers in your face you when you walk in, no receptionist, just her assistant, in this quaint little barn, and it’s totally charming.
She’s the most accessible woman, she takes time for you, cuddles the dogs, she’s just a really nurturing person.
As we were getting ready to leave, I’m sitting on this bench in her waiting room, she had come out of the examining room with us and was chatting, and out of the corner of my eye I see this white cat. Wait, it’s not a cat, it’s a rabbit!
This white bunny was hopping around her office. It was just the cutest thing, ever. Can’t you just picture going to visit the vet and seeing a rabbit peeking around the corner at you. Animals are just the best, aren’t they? They never fail to make me smile. It’s good to share your life with one, or two. They give you far more than they take from you, and always make you smile, every single day…
"May today there be peace within. May you trust that you are exactly
where you are meant to be. May you not forget the infinite possibilities
that are born of faith in yourself and others. May you use the gifts that
you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you. May
you be content with yourself just the way you are. Let this knowledge
settle into your bones, and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance,
praise and love. It is there for each and every one of us."
I just posted a new featured recipe on Jan CAN Cook for Frozen Hawaiian Pie and several other cool summer desserts. Click thru and check them out ~ jan
Note: Also look at the Creamy Lemonade Pie in the archives. I made this last summer, everybody loved it. Lindsay made it for her mother last month, it’s a great recipe.
Hubby and I were out and about this morning. We went to breakfast, ran a lot of errands, he stood in a lot of lines. He was loading the car with groceries, I was standing behind him, and saw the tag on his shirt. Oh dear, he had it on wrong side out. And he went in many stores that way.
This is to be expected of me, I’ve done this kind of thing for years, but him, not so much. Oh well, he is going to be sixty-five this summer. He’s still far ahead of me though. I swear any sense I ever had has left the building.
Well, they were all trim and slim, all of them were really toned, but let’s face it, they, like the rest of us are getting older. I thought Samantha looked better than any of them, and she’s the oldest. Age showing around the eyes, the face is softer, but she looked amazing for a fifty something woman Her body is still killer. Carrie, however, didn’t fare so welll, in my opinion. She still wears clothes like a hangar, the woman oozes style, no doubt about it, but she is so thin that her face looks really haggard. Ouch, this sounds really catty, but I’m just being honest.
And Charlotte and Miranda. Well, Charlotte isn’t so fresh looking anymore, her dewy skin is long gone, Miranda had a great haircut, she was never a beauty, but she’s working what she has. They all looked like they were Botoxed to the hilt, but at least they didn’t have fish lips, no collagen, thank goodness. What I did notice was that they had great makeup, especially the blusher, all of them. Now that was good!
Sad to say, I think it’s either time for them to hang it up, or move on to something more age appropriate with their storyline. Awful movie, I would wait until it comes to Red Box to watch it, even the gorgeous clothes weren’t enough to make up for a non-existing plot line and all those pregnant pauses, it was actually uncomfortable sometimes, their lack of dialogue. They could have done so much better…
Rona Barrett, here, reviewing from Hollywood Heavensville…
Gary Coleman died this afternoon. Two of his sayings from Different Strokes have been in my vocabulary for years.
The first is his most famous, in my opinion, “whatchutalkinboutwillis” – loved that one.
And the second I’ve been known to do a few times in my life, “I’m gonna hit those milk and cookies ‘til the blues go away.”
He was only forty-two years old, so sad that he had to die so young…
I gathered onions from the garden this morning and as I was standing at the kitchen sink cleaning them I had a flashback to when I was a child, watching Mother doing the same thing.
Except there was no sink, just a well in the back yard that you sank a bucket into to draw water. There was a bucket in the kitchen that you filled, and a dipper to pour the water into my favorite old stainless steel bowl to clean them. There was no air-conditioned kitchen to work in, or even a fan, so you did your work early in the morning before the heat of the day set in. It was always my job to throw the onion tops on the ditch bank for the chickens, and I would do it and run back into the house because those chickens and I did not get along.
There was no pretty little glass to put the cleaned onions in, either, just a Ball fruit jar, and then she would put them on her round oak table, no doubt covered with an oilcloth to protect it from stains. And yes, we would eat the onions for breakfast, with ham and eggs and fresh tomatoes later in the summer.
I say it was so simple then, but was it really? It was a hard life, but it was all we knew. The older I get, the more I admire my mother for her strengths. Her life was never easy, but she did the best she could. I wish I could sit on the porch swing with her this morning, sipping sweet tea out of one of those fruit jars, and tell her what a good woman she was and how much I appreciated all she did for me. I wish…
I tried reading the book when it came out, just couldn’t get into it. I’m so used to trash reading, that anything else seems boring to me. But I need to broaden my horizons badly, everything I read has the same story, the same ending, so I’m going to give this one another go. Tomorrow’s the day, I’m going to read, not skim, which I have a bad habit of doing, see if I can find my groove with this book. I tried several Jane Austen books last week, they didn’t do it for me. There has to be something of substance out there that I will enjoy. Surely, I’m not that shallow, surely…
I’m looking forward to the movie, the trailers looked really good. I still don’t like Oprah, though!
I’m one of those people, unfortunately, who doesn’t enjoy water. However, Nisha and I were talking yesterday, and she said when she was visiting her sister-in-law that she had a pitcher filled with water and a whole sprig of mint. Now doesn’t that sound interesting? I have a big pot of spearmint right outside on my patio, I do believe I’m going to give it a try…
UPDATE: I just filled the pitcher, put in the mint, hubby wanted to know why I put a bug infested weed in the water pitcher and sat it in the fridge. Men Schmen!!!!!
Darn these little annoying insects, I swear, every time I get a fly swatter, they disappear. Put it down, they come back. They’re smarter than I am.
Maggie has been napping on my computer desk, I don’t want to swat her, so I’ve been “trying” to smack this pesky fly without hitting her for the past few minutes. Now she’s awake and helping, she’s biting at it when it flies through the air. No doubt she will be more successful than me. She’s smarter than I am, too…
It was Ryan, Abby has her first tooth!!!!! I had this big, sappy grin on my face, I was just thrilled. She didn’t ever act like she was teething, Lindsay just looked in her mouth and it was there.
If I’m this excited over a tooth, what will I be like when she takes her first step???
Oh, this Grammie business is such a kick in the pants.
She has a TOOTH!!!!!
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