We’re not suffering from the heat this summer, at least. It’s tended to the 60’s at night and 80’s by day, which is unusual for this end of Washington.
We’re trying to refurb the ponds from the disaster of winter, and the baby koi have just begun to eat from the surface of the pond—as in, food I give them, instead of just de-algifying the rocks.
We stayed home last night and watched 1776. Our annual movie for the 4th. Had popcorn and champagne.
Getting some writing done. Getting ready to move the fishes over to the new tank. I have to wash the fishes first, because there’s a nasty algae where they are that I don’t want to transfer. Being freshwater fishes, I’m asking myself if I can just rinse them off under the tap: I mean, its water—chlorinated, but only for a second or two.
Oops, Jane needs my help to remove a window.
Good on both of you for tackling a window! I bought a stained glass window (architectural salvage) a couple of years ago, intending to replace a window that faced out onto our carport. Found I couldn’t make it work, did something else with the carport window but kept the purchased one for something else. Finally got around to using it on another front-facing window. Now all but the big picture window facing out onto the front yard have stained glass in them!
1776 is exactly the right amount of sarcastic for a holiday rewatch.
Happy Fourth (um, well, Fifth now) of July to all Americans reading CJ’s blog! 1776 is one of my favorite musicals. When I was 12, our entire 7th grade class walked down to the town movie theatre (huge, single screen converted from an old stage/theatre) to see the movie when it was first released and I have loved/remembered it ever since. The Molasses to Rum to Slaves song is one of the most powerful and challenging songs I have ever heard/seen. I use it when teaching about American and especially Northern involvement in slavery.
We have 1776 for 4th of July, are still open for a Halloween movie, but it’s tending to Pirates of the Caribbean; and have The Lion in Winter as our Christmas movie.
Oooh, a movie about Granma & Granpa. We come from John, who gets an somewhat undeserved reputation in the public from the Robin Hood movies, and from royalists, of course. But without John there’d BE no “rights of Englishmen”.
For a Halloween movie, how about “Something Wicked This Way Comes”? Based on the Bradbury novel.
Sharon Lee and Steve Miller do a thing where they take turns reading aloud each night in October a chapter from Roger Zelazny’s “A Night in the Lonesome October.” Kinda like advent for Halloween.
Remove a window? I won’t ask.
Our Fourth was very wet and quite enjoyable.
Some Halloween movies for your consideration. Sweeny Todd; Into The Woods; Sleepy Hollow; Coraline.
I am not a huge fan of Halloween but these are some favorites.
Sleepy Hollow is one of our contenders. 😉 Halloween is one of our favorites. The church across the diagonal from us puts on an outdoor carnival and the kids all wear their costumes and get treats. We love going over there. And the church has helped us two heathen so much—once when we were completely done in, and wondering what to do with our yard work, the pastor led the whole congregation to come over and help us, even buying a row of pavers to complete our edge. The pastor (Methodist) couldn’t perform our wedding because of his superiors’ rules, but we invited him to come as a guest, which he did (our back yard)—and he’s called on us numerous times. We donate to their Christmas drive. Lovely people, they.
My spouse LOVES Sleepy Hollow and watches it over & over again. She has also built numerous miniatures of the church and a number of the other iconic buildings in the movie. I admit I am not so much of a fanatic over the movie but quite like it (then, I’m not building miniatures and so don’t need to review the scenes so closely and endlessly).