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I was really looking forward to all of my “shows” last night. We taped Bones, something we have started watching on Fox. We love all these good forensic shows that have interesting, likable main characters. We also taped the Idol results show, which we later watched. I was very sorry to see Mandisa go home. Granted, she didn’t do a great job with that Shania Twain song (that I love, by the way), but she was a heck of a lot better than a couple of others.
We watched Amazing Race and that was my heartbreaker for the night. Although I like several of the teams (and have team Mojo in a little informal pool I’m in), my favorite team by far has been “the nerds” – Dave and Lori. I just so hated to see them eliminated. I was sooo hoping for a non-elimination round (they haven’t had one yet, have they?), but no such luck. Sigh, my favorites are gone. I watched “The Early Show” this morning and saw their interview. They were as sweet and lovable on there as on the show. And to finish up, they said they were going to get married, so that made me really happy.
Lost was a horse of a different color. Tim called it right away, in the first 10 minutes, that “Dave” was Hurley’s alter ego. It was a rather boring episode, I thought, except for the little curve ball they threw in at the very end -Libby was in the same psych ward. Sigh. Ho-hum. Who cares. I want to know more about Henry, the Others and the hatch.
All in all, a disappointing night.
Well, several of the harbingers of spring have now come to pass for me… among them:
I bought a New Guinea impatien. I don’t think I’ve tried these before, or haven’t in pots. I need to plant it tomorrow or the next day:
Tim and I bought our first climbing rose last year, and planted it on the back fence. He even built a custom trellis that attaches to our fence, to give it more space to grow up and on.
Well, me not having a green thumb, I didn’t know when or how to prune this bush. So, as I do my other spring flowering shrubs, I pruned it in the winter, before it would bloom in the spring. Which was apparently ok, but I pruned it a little much. It is blooming up a storm, and has been for several weeks, but it’s not very big. In fact, it’s about the same size as it was last year when we bought it at Lowe’s. However, it had already bloomed last year, and I didn’t know what the buds and blooms looked like. This year, I’ve really been enjoying watching it bloom, the small roses are so pretty and delicate and yellow!
Next year, I’ll have to be sure to not prune it, and give it a chance to grow up on the fence like we’d like. I just hope that won’t affect its blooming next spring. Apparently, this type of climbing vine only blooms once, for about 4-6 weeks in the spring. It’s so pretty though, these pictures don’t do it justice!
P.S. If you’d like to see the individual photos larger, some of them are on my Flickr album. Just check out the sidebar and click on the Flickr image and then you can scroll through my album (mostly pictures of flowers, birds and squirrels!) and find the larger pictures of my Lady Banks climbing rose. 🙂
I bought a cheap little herb kit in Walmart a couple of weeks ago, and planted the seeds about 10 days ago. I’ve been watering them faithfully every day (just a little, with a mist sprayer so I don’t over soak them and rot them out) and now, they are starting to sprout!
I’m not sure what is what, or how much more they will grow, but just this little bit of germinating is enough to make me happy. 🙂 I don’t have a particularly green thumb and haven’t had much luck with things like this in the past. So, this is good!
Happiness for someone like me (very boring and mundane), is a new cooking magazine and a new book: 
1. How many computers are in your home? Are they for personal or business use? Lots. 3 “regular” ones and one laptop from work. We have 2 PC’s running Linux that comprise Hambones, and my regular windows desktop.
2. How many cars does your household own? What are the colors of the cars? 2 Fords. Tim’s is a dark grey and mine is a maroon.
3. When was the last time you did a thorough cleaning of your home? Did you find anything that you thought you lost? Ick. That sounds like spring cleaning to me. Seriously, I try to keep things clean around here so I don’t have to do much deep cleaning. Of course, if you move the refrigerator or the couch or the bed, dust bunnies will be very prevalent. I don’t do that often!
4. Do you generally get along with your neighbors? Is there one neighbor that really gets on your nerves? Yes, we get along with our neighbors really well. Now that spring is upon us, we’ve been out more and so have our neighbors. We’ve been talking up a blue streak to several of them, catching up.
5. Are you basically content with your living situation? Why or why not? Heavens, yes. I am a homebody, nesting type person to the nth degree. I love being home. I love having a home. I love taking care of me and Tim. I wouldn’t change a thing (except to get another dog – hint hint).
We went to see a matinee of “Inside Man” yesterday at our new Grandview Theater. I’ll try to write up a review this week on Hambones.org. We both liked it, but Tim gave it a higher rating than I did. I expected more in the way of plot development, I think, than he did. And with Denzel Washington, Clive Owen and Jodie Foster, I think I just expected more. It was still a good movie, and would be a great rental when it comes out on DVD.
Anyway, I’ve blogged about our new theater before, but I hadn’t been able to post any pictures. As much as I love my new camera that I got for Christmas, it’s bigger and bulkier than my previous digital camera, which I could sometimes stick in my purse. Enter our new Razr phones we got a few weeks ago, and voila, I can take pictures inside our new theater. Well, at least I thought I could. The cameraphone doesn’t have a flash and it seems that all the interior lighting (a lot of neon and dim lighting everywhere else) really messed up my shots. They’re not great, but better than nothing, so I’m including them on the extended page…
Fun questions today, thanks Otto!
1. Do you own any box sets of your favorite shows? Not a single one. We own over 100 DVD movies, but none of TV shows. Tim doesn’t get into those at all.
2. Are you penpals with other people? Not really. Email buddies but no penpals
3. Do you still send out real, paper cards in the mail? Just the “regular” kind – birthday cards, Christmas cards, thank you notes. An occasional “congrats on the new baby” or sympathy cards. That’s about it, though.
4. Have you ever bought or sold anything on Ebay? Nope, not a single solitary thing. I’m staying out of that quicksand, as long as I can.
5. Did you have to set your clocks an hour ahead this past weekend? We move them on Sunday mornings, never the night before.
6. How many of your blog buddies’ birthdays do you know? Just family ones
7. When is your birthday (need not include year)? October 18
I was going to blog about this anyway, in my daily rambling. Might as well do Sindee’s fun weekly meme as the tool!
~April Fools~
By the way…
Have you been the fooler or the fooled?Always the fooled. 😕
Care to share? Yesterday, I was taken in twice. April Fool’s. Huh. Seems like a way to be mean to people, to me. 😛
Let’s see… Gail got me first. She called in the AM and convinced me she was sick, and that she might not be able to drive to North Carolina to visit Jeremy, Kathryn and Katelyn. She was going to keep Katelyn for a week, while Kathryn went back to work after maternity leave. She said she ate something and she was feeling horrible, yada, yada, yada. I’m so gullible that not only did I believe her, but I felt sorry for her, was sympathetic and hated that she wasn’t feeling good. Yeah, right. April Fool’s.
Then, Tim got me later on in the day. He and Don went to play golf at the Refuge. On the way home, he called on the cell and Chris and Elizabeth had just gotten here. I needed to go ahead and order pizza, so I switched phones and ordered 2 large pizzas plus an order of cheese sticks from our favorite pizza joint. Delivery was over an hour, so I got back on the cell with Tim and got him to stop and wait for pick-up (20 minutes). Tim called about 25 minutes later and said “I got the pizzas – did you order smalls? These boxes are really small.”. No, and I proceeded to get upset that they got our order wrong and we had 5 hungry people and two tiny pizzas. Well, after letting me wax on a while, Tim finally says the magic words “April Fool’s!”. Yeah, right. Got me again. I’m too gullible and naive and trusting for my own good.
They weren’t mean or malicious, but just go to prove that I believe and trust people. And people are mean to me. One of my favorite phrases is always “why is everybody always picking on me?” Never were truer words spoken.
I finished another book yesterday, the third in the Miss Julia series by Ann B. Ross, entitled “Miss Julia Throws a Wedding.” Another good light, charming, Southern book about an elderly widowed woman in North Carolina and the charming friends and family she gets into various and sundry escapades with. Very light and entertaining, which I was totally in the mood for. I enjoyed it 🙂
That makes #15 for the year, with a total of 5,421 pages read. Next up to read is another light story of friends through the years, “Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons” by Lorna Landvick. I hope it’s good! 🙂
Saturday’s Bullet points:
Or at least for now, all is quiet. Yesterday turned out to be a busy day at home, baking homemade bread, cooking, cleaning, laundry and other various and assorted tasks. Tim and I caught up on some TV that we had taped from earlier in the week last night. (He had to work a little while last night, too).
This morning, we got up and went for our 2 mile walk in our subdivision. Did a few things around the house, and now it’s all quiet here. Just me and myself and my iPod. Tim left a little while ago to go meet Don and play 18 holes of golf. So, I know he’s going to have a great day. 😆 I’m going to play on the computer, read and maybe do a little more laundry. We’re hoping that Elizabeth and Chris get to come over tonight. Hopefully their busy social schedule will allow it, and we can order pizza and play games or watch a movie. Should be fun!
On the rodent front :mrgreen:, the squirrels have now found the feeder I put out for them. They are tearing through the corn cobs on an almost daily schedule. I have several more pictures of “furry rodents eating corn” if anyone is interested. So, if those excite you more than the flower or bird pictures, let me know and I can post some. I took a bunch of pictures a couple of days ago. I had a squirrel here for about 45 minutes and he ate about 3/4 of a corn cob right by himself. Little sucker was hungry!
Lastly, in addition to the bread I’ve been making, I made a new recipe the other night. A new recipe for alfredo sauce. I made fettucine alfredo with shrimp and we both really liked it. I’m going to make the sauce again in a couple of weeks and pour over penne, along with some grilled chicken and probably mushrooms. I would add broccoli, but Tim has turned into a broccoli-hater. Won’t touch the stuff. 🙄
Happy Saturday, everyone!
This week’s assignment from her Random and Odd Self, Kristine:
Mine are on the extended page, along with a note of gratitude and appreciation to Kristine and the folks that come here and leave comments. Thanks to you guys, I got my new stainless steel trash can I had been lusting after (a previous SPF assignment!!). 😀
We’ve had a woodpecker or two hanging around our house and bird feeder for the last couple of months. I knew we had a woodpecker, because sometimes I would hear him up on our metal chimney cap, pecking away and sounding like a jackhammer, hitting the metal cap. Then, I started noticing a really large, really odd looking bird on my bird seed feeder. He’s much bigger than the cardinals that get on there (which are bigger than the normal visitors -sparrows, or the chickadees or wrens). This bird has a red head, so I got on the Internet and searched for “red headed woodpecker”. Come to find out, he’s called a “red-bellied” woodpecker. You can read about him here or here.
Or, you can check him out here… after several weeks of trying to get a shot of him from inside the house, I finally got one. It’s hard to get a decent shot on full zoom, from inside, with the screens we have on our windows. Also hard to get a photo of most of these birds, because they see movement inside the house and fly off before I can get my camera and get it set up. My patience was finally rewarded yesterday, and I took this picture of my male, red-bellied woodpecker:
Handsome devil, you think? Not. I think he’s sort of ugly but I’m glad to have finally gotten his picture after so much effort 🙄
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