We went to see the new Indiana Jones movie yesterday. We waited several days because we figured it would be busy. We were right. We almost got claustraphobic !!! There were 43 people in the theatre - two of which were sitting in OUR seats.
Yes, we are spoiled - we always go to the matinee and we feel crowded with the four or maybe even five (on a good day) people in the theatre with us. Can you imagine that. Not many people go on weekdays late afternoon. Ocassionally we have the theatre to ourselves. (the fun of being retired) Makes us remember the fun days of working at the theatre when we met. We would go up in the balcony (which was closed except for really busy days) and watch movies alone. Really cool ! The manager got mad though if we took our hamburgers up there because the french fries would smell.
Guess theatres just never got out of our blood ! Too many fun memories of when we worked together when we were dating. We are so excited to see our D & R theatre in Aberdeen when they get done restoring it. That is where we met. Had our first kiss backstage on New Years Eve 1957. How's that for a memory! They had the new marque up when we were in Aberdeen last fall. Haven't heard any more news of how it is coming along now. It is a very beautiful theatre inside and I hope they restore it basically like it was in it's hayday.
It is so interesting how minds work alike after 48 years of sharing life together.... We saw a really shiny, totally polished black car in town the other day and were both quiet for a minute and then Bob said "Does that make you think of Mr. Evans?" My mind was just pondering the thought but I hadn't mentioned anything yet. Mr Evans was our boss at the theatre. He drove the shiniest black car anyone had ever seen and he had a special parking spot in front of the theatre and no one dared to park there when he was in. It wasn't marked but everyone knew NO ONE parks there but Mr Evans. He kept the car absolutely spotless, I never saw a speck of dirt on it.
Anyway back to Indiana Jones. Very typical - constant chases, fighting, swinging from trees, going over three waterfalls - coming out dripping wet and yet having a match to light the torch when they get to the dark, scary, full of creepy things, cave....
Yes, Indiana Jones is older and not quite as agile as he was in the last movie and they don't hide the fact. He even makes some boo boos but then we all do as we get older. He's just my age in real life but I don't plan on jumping from car to car or get stuck in quicksand anymore. Like I ever did !)
As you can see, it is full of action and entertaining very "Supermanish" but that's what makes it fun. Good movie if you like action ! Worth taking in for a night (or afternoon) of entertainment.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Giraffes
This is one of my favorite pictures. It was taken at Wildlife Safari one year when we took Aubrianne and Tanner.
I am learning to put a picture in my blog and this is my first try... I named it "giraffe butts" !
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Thirteen - No Wait, Fourteen
Fourteen - that's how many organizational books I found on my shelf recently !
Sounds like I'm a really organized person doesn't it ?
Not really BUT after all, I did find all fourteen books !
Actually I only have 13 but I have one really fantastic one that is duplicated.
Guess God really thought I needed that one. Have I read either of them , well -sort of. How about the other 13? Have I applied any of the suggestions, --- not sure about that. BUT I love thinking I am organized. Everybody thinks I am.(boy, do I have them fooled) Linda Pattison always said everyone thought she was so organized but she had to be to find anything because she was so unorganized. That's sort of the way I feel most of the time.
So according to the dictionary the definition of organize is "to arrange in an orderly way - to make into a whole with unified and coherent relationships." That means, I guess, to get it all together in some sort of "make sense" order huh !
I usually have this 'get organized' kick in January. I just can't stand the house and go after
it with gusto. But for some reason that feeling has hung on into the month of May this year
and I still do not feel under control.
It's getting harder the older I get because when a person reaches a certain
age these "little gremlins" move into your house and they like to reach out and
grab things when you lay them down and run off with them. They do it right under your nose
and you never see them at all ! They usually put them back somewhere close when
you are not looking just to tease you or sometimes they just hide them away never
to be seen again.
Oh yes, I went down to our Weight Watchers storeroom the other day and labeled all
of the tubs we keep our product in so we know when we are running low and need to reorder
and labeled the drawers on our rolling cart so we can find the paperwork we need
in a hurry but that was only because it helps us be more efficient during the meetings
so that doesn't really count.
If I turn around and look at the left side of my desk, I have a paper holder thingy that is
running over with things I put there to "file later." The basket behind my chair runneth
over with magazines to be read. (at least they are in a basket!) I have dropped four
or five of the magazines I used to get for lack of time to read them. My scrapbooking tote sits waiting to be unloaded in my scrap room from last weekends crop. I haven't even had time to look at the pages I got done let alone compile the book. (Has to be done by next week so it will happen) There are just to many other things that are top priority this week.
Whoever said after you retire you will be bored with nothing to do !! My goal when I retired was to fold my clean clothes as soon as they come out of the dryer. Has that happened. Not really - maybe sometimes but that is something I can do later in the day when we are watching TV so they usually wait until then.
I do love to be organized - it feels so good to know where things are and be able to go
get them immediately. But sometimes I have to just go and replace something because
it has just disappeared.
Yes, my sox are sorted in my drawer by color but that is just because quite often I'm in a hurry in the morning to get somewhere and everyone knows your sox must match your shirt !
My biggest problem -- not putting things away immediately, thinking I will come back to do
it and it often just doesn't happen so I'm still working on that and in the meantime the "little gremlins' are having a blast in my house hiding things from me that I didn't put back right away.
Oh well, one of these days the garage project will HAVE to get started because Judi and I have our annual garage sale planned for July. That not only gets the garage straightened out but makes me go thru everything and get rid of a lot of stuff that is no longer necessary to clutter up the house.
After that I will again feel somewhat organized at least for a little while !
Sounds like I'm a really organized person doesn't it ?
Not really BUT after all, I did find all fourteen books !
Actually I only have 13 but I have one really fantastic one that is duplicated.
Guess God really thought I needed that one. Have I read either of them , well -sort of. How about the other 13? Have I applied any of the suggestions, --- not sure about that. BUT I love thinking I am organized. Everybody thinks I am.(boy, do I have them fooled) Linda Pattison always said everyone thought she was so organized but she had to be to find anything because she was so unorganized. That's sort of the way I feel most of the time.
So according to the dictionary the definition of organize is "to arrange in an orderly way - to make into a whole with unified and coherent relationships." That means, I guess, to get it all together in some sort of "make sense" order huh !
I usually have this 'get organized' kick in January. I just can't stand the house and go after
it with gusto. But for some reason that feeling has hung on into the month of May this year
and I still do not feel under control.
It's getting harder the older I get because when a person reaches a certain
age these "little gremlins" move into your house and they like to reach out and
grab things when you lay them down and run off with them. They do it right under your nose
and you never see them at all ! They usually put them back somewhere close when
you are not looking just to tease you or sometimes they just hide them away never
to be seen again.
Oh yes, I went down to our Weight Watchers storeroom the other day and labeled all
of the tubs we keep our product in so we know when we are running low and need to reorder
and labeled the drawers on our rolling cart so we can find the paperwork we need
in a hurry but that was only because it helps us be more efficient during the meetings
so that doesn't really count.
If I turn around and look at the left side of my desk, I have a paper holder thingy that is
running over with things I put there to "file later." The basket behind my chair runneth
over with magazines to be read. (at least they are in a basket!) I have dropped four
or five of the magazines I used to get for lack of time to read them. My scrapbooking tote sits waiting to be unloaded in my scrap room from last weekends crop. I haven't even had time to look at the pages I got done let alone compile the book. (Has to be done by next week so it will happen) There are just to many other things that are top priority this week.
Whoever said after you retire you will be bored with nothing to do !! My goal when I retired was to fold my clean clothes as soon as they come out of the dryer. Has that happened. Not really - maybe sometimes but that is something I can do later in the day when we are watching TV so they usually wait until then.
I do love to be organized - it feels so good to know where things are and be able to go
get them immediately. But sometimes I have to just go and replace something because
it has just disappeared.
Yes, my sox are sorted in my drawer by color but that is just because quite often I'm in a hurry in the morning to get somewhere and everyone knows your sox must match your shirt !
My biggest problem -- not putting things away immediately, thinking I will come back to do
it and it often just doesn't happen so I'm still working on that and in the meantime the "little gremlins' are having a blast in my house hiding things from me that I didn't put back right away.
Oh well, one of these days the garage project will HAVE to get started because Judi and I have our annual garage sale planned for July. That not only gets the garage straightened out but makes me go thru everything and get rid of a lot of stuff that is no longer necessary to clutter up the house.
After that I will again feel somewhat organized at least for a little while !
Monday, May 12, 2008
Mothers Day
Yesterday was Mothers Day. A day we celebrate important people in our lives. At least that was always how I felt about my Mom! She was my sweetheart and people loved her so... I miss her a lot and think of her often. I miss my mother-in-law too. She was very special in our lives. A very quiet gentle person and a little more reserved than my Mom but always there for us and a great mother-in -law! Her having two sons, I was her first daughter and that was fun to share with her. But they are both gone now and it is time for a new generation to share our lives.
We had a "most fun" day with the younger set as Cameron and Kate came down to spend some time here on the coast for their one year anniversary of dating. We had such a fun time with them. They brought me a beautiful bouquet of carnations for Mothers Day and for having them ( The treat was ours !) We visited over a big bowl of popcorn Saturday night, had breakfast at the Pig and Pancake Sunday morning (you can't come to Astoria without eating at the Pig and having their bacon.) Went to visit the big noisy sea lions on the 39th street dock and then walking thru the opening day of our Sunday Market. Thought of riding the trolley but Cameron said we can't do that unless Grandpa is driving and conducting so that will have to come at another time.
Then we ended our day by celebrating Bob's birthday with Chris and Jackie and Tom and Judi as (get this) last night was the only day in the next two weeks we could all get together. (are we too busy or what) Anyway Jackie and Christ brought dinner from the Bowpicker, we had angel food cake with lemon filling, visited and watched part of the video Bob took on our vacation in New England last fall. Looked mainly at the trolley museum in Kennebunkport, Maine as I had just finished a scrapbook album for him for his birthday full of trolley pictures from our Astoria trolley and also from the Kennebunkport trolley museum. It was a fun album to make and made me even more anxious to get to the rest of our fall vacation. Have a scrapbook crop coming up this weekend but it has another priority album I have to finish before I can start on our vacation. There just isn't enough hours in each day to do everything I want to do.
Life is good - lots of beautiful people in my life. What more could one ask for.
God has blessed us above and beyond expectations.
We had a "most fun" day with the younger set as Cameron and Kate came down to spend some time here on the coast for their one year anniversary of dating. We had such a fun time with them. They brought me a beautiful bouquet of carnations for Mothers Day and for having them ( The treat was ours !) We visited over a big bowl of popcorn Saturday night, had breakfast at the Pig and Pancake Sunday morning (you can't come to Astoria without eating at the Pig and having their bacon.) Went to visit the big noisy sea lions on the 39th street dock and then walking thru the opening day of our Sunday Market. Thought of riding the trolley but Cameron said we can't do that unless Grandpa is driving and conducting so that will have to come at another time.
Then we ended our day by celebrating Bob's birthday with Chris and Jackie and Tom and Judi as (get this) last night was the only day in the next two weeks we could all get together. (are we too busy or what) Anyway Jackie and Christ brought dinner from the Bowpicker, we had angel food cake with lemon filling, visited and watched part of the video Bob took on our vacation in New England last fall. Looked mainly at the trolley museum in Kennebunkport, Maine as I had just finished a scrapbook album for him for his birthday full of trolley pictures from our Astoria trolley and also from the Kennebunkport trolley museum. It was a fun album to make and made me even more anxious to get to the rest of our fall vacation. Have a scrapbook crop coming up this weekend but it has another priority album I have to finish before I can start on our vacation. There just isn't enough hours in each day to do everything I want to do.
Life is good - lots of beautiful people in my life. What more could one ask for.
God has blessed us above and beyond expectations.
Sunday, May 4, 2008
Birds in general
Just read Cathy's blog about her unusual little bird pecking at her window.
Birds are funny things. Our goldfinches are back but all the big birds keep eating the food so fast they hardly have time to come around. Our crazy birds take dust baths in the driveway -rolling around and around in flopping their wings. Don't know if it gets rid of mites or if they are just itchy or what but they look quite goofy and don't like to move when we want to drive out of the driveway.
Friday when I was driving into town down the side of the road just past our stoplight on 101 there was a mama duck with three little ducklings waddling along behind her. They were so cute They are the first ones I have seen this year.
Our eagles are still around. Didn't see them for awhile after our storm last fall. But they are back.
Bob said there was a beautiful one sitting on the pilings along the river when he drove trolley last week and it just sat there for several trips much to the liking of our cruise people visiting our area. What a show they make with their white bald heads gleaming in the light.
The cruise ships are really coming this year. We have already had a bunch and three more are coming in this week. They have limited them to one at a time in port for security reasons. It is hard to keep watch when so many are in port with limited available personnel.
Had a blast over the weekend at my scrapbook crop Friday night and Saturday. It was at Long Beach. Got lots done and just enjoyed the time with Jan Anderson to catch up and chat.
That's it for today. Just had noticed I hadn't checked in for a long time. Where does the time go and where did my thoughts go last week. Just nothing came to mind to post so I just sort of sat here feeling blank thoughts and couldn't think of anything to post. Have a good day everyone!
Birds are funny things. Our goldfinches are back but all the big birds keep eating the food so fast they hardly have time to come around. Our crazy birds take dust baths in the driveway -rolling around and around in flopping their wings. Don't know if it gets rid of mites or if they are just itchy or what but they look quite goofy and don't like to move when we want to drive out of the driveway.
Friday when I was driving into town down the side of the road just past our stoplight on 101 there was a mama duck with three little ducklings waddling along behind her. They were so cute They are the first ones I have seen this year.
Our eagles are still around. Didn't see them for awhile after our storm last fall. But they are back.
Bob said there was a beautiful one sitting on the pilings along the river when he drove trolley last week and it just sat there for several trips much to the liking of our cruise people visiting our area. What a show they make with their white bald heads gleaming in the light.
The cruise ships are really coming this year. We have already had a bunch and three more are coming in this week. They have limited them to one at a time in port for security reasons. It is hard to keep watch when so many are in port with limited available personnel.
Had a blast over the weekend at my scrapbook crop Friday night and Saturday. It was at Long Beach. Got lots done and just enjoyed the time with Jan Anderson to catch up and chat.
That's it for today. Just had noticed I hadn't checked in for a long time. Where does the time go and where did my thoughts go last week. Just nothing came to mind to post so I just sort of sat here feeling blank thoughts and couldn't think of anything to post. Have a good day everyone!
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