Fri. fun, and Sat. sun...

We had a nearly full day of sun, on Fri.  Wow!!!!  And a purrrrrrfect Saturday is forecast!  Double wow!!!

Yesterday was spent, as I said....  Up at 6am, to watch old Esther Williams films on A&E.  Watched 'till an old black and white one, with no swimming, came on.  Turned that off and baked the bread.

  The bread, which I am not showing.  Because I messed up the recipe, and it did not come out, "pretty."  It's ok to eat, but I'll have to do it again.  More Correctly!  ,-)

Then it was back to more movies, until I had to take a nap.  Missed some of that one.  But then continued my marathon watching, thru the last one, at 8pm.  Wow!!!

I have fun with old movies, by watching to see who did the Set Design on them.  (The name I recognize most, is (click-->) Edwin B.Willis...)  And also have fun, noticing other actors, who later became more famous.

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A very young (click-->)  Ricardo Montalban  was in a couple of them.  Oh my wow!!!!!  What a gorgeous man he was!!!

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All his life.  Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm....   Yummmmmmmmmmy...  :-)

I read for a while, but had to go to bed.  I was tired!  LOL. 

And woke to beautiful SUN, this (Sat.) morning.  Yessss!!!!!

Wondering, am I the only "Old Movie Fan," out there in Pretty Blog Land?  :-)  I kind-of doubt it.  If you too, are a fan, which kind of "Old Movies," are your favorite?  Or do you like a lot of different types of them?

IS it POSSIBLE??????????????

(One blossom fell off...)

Saturday, we both woke up nice and early and got an early start.  Went out to store to get a bigger pot, for the beautiful Tuberous Begonias we got, for the front step.  

They had expensive ones, at the Garden Shop, so we went elsewhere....  And found one, not so expensive.  -grin-

It gives the beautiful Tuberous Begonias, more room to grow!  We always have them here, on the edge of the front step.  The spot is less sunny, and they thrive there.

(First of his "Old Roses" to blossom...) 

He planted in front.  We had gotten PINK Wave Petunias, for on the patio.  He planted them, too.  I puttered and pottered around, sweeping up potting soil which had fallen and etc., etc.   

(Checking out the frogs , in the pond...)

THEN, I began to WEED in his front perennial garden!  ME!  I weeded!!!!!  Walked around in the garden and pulled up rogue weeds.  Cut 'em off if I couldn't pull them up.  IT WAS AMAZING!!! 

(*BK*)

I have so much more energy and get-up-and-go!!!  I've been saying it's a residual effect of the Prednisone I had to take, when sick.  But by now...  A week later....  Doesn't seem that much P., can still be in my system.  So maybe, it is the Healthy Eating Effect!  Which those who Juice and etc., tell of?!?!?!? 

(One big frog, so far...)

I hadn't though of this possibility (due to Healthy Eating) before.  As I have said, people who push Juicing and Healthy Eating SAY that they began to feel better...  Doing it.  But these claims sound kind of "far fetched."

So one does not want to believe too much hype.  I just wanted to remain arthritis pain free and know I am eating in a more healthy way.  But wow!  If Healthy Eating really is giving me more pep, I'll take it!!!!!!!!!!!

WOW!!! A first!!! WoW!!!

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"Byzantium"  is the story of mother and daughter vampires, whose epic drama spans centuries.  Oh wow!  Oh wow!  Oh wow!  By clicking on that click-able link ("Byzantium") ...  You can go to a site, where you can watch a trailer, for the film.  :-))))))))))))))))))))

Yes, I found this on "Gossip Cop" blog.   ,-)   That blog is worth more than just separating 'rumor' from 'fact,' in the world of .......   Those silly famous people.  -grin-

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I took a picture, of my very first attempt, at "painting" my own Background.  -grin-

What do I write/say next, huuuuuu?

Something like;  "I know it's hardly professional, and not up to, what a real water-colorist  can paint/do...."

Or;  "I know that "S.B." is not going to be worried, about being put-out-of-business.  -Ha-ha-hah-"

But!!!

My Wild Woman will not allow such!  She will only allow me to exalt, in accomplishment!  She will only allow me to be so proud of myself, because I actually put brush to paper, and made some sort of a picture!!!   My Wild Woman says that to act *all-silly-little-ol'-me,* and in a self-depreciating way,  is to degrade my accomplishment.  :-((((  She says that I need, need, need to bask in the Happiness and Joy of having accomplished something creative.  My Wild Woman  is the best of Mothers, to me.

I am so happy, that I have begun to find and listen to, even a tiny bit of what My Wild Woman inside, has to share with me.

I wish every woman, the same...

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Happy Columbus-Who-Discovered-the-New-World,-After-the-Vikings-Did Day.

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(Across the road...)

A kind of a quiet weekend, around here.  I decided to not do any housework, so that removed the *specter of un-done housework* from hanging over my head!!!  (How smart is that, hu?  -grin-)  And I just went on my merry way, doing this and that, and not feeling the GUILT of undone housework!  -Chuckle-

(From back yard...)

Not so jolly, was the fact that a spell of stiffness and ache-y-ness has set in.   I being stiff as a board, when I get up.  Can't even bend enough to tie my shoes, first thing in the AM.  Have to steady my very-stiff-self, as I walk along.   And it HURTS like hell, when I move the *wrong* way.  Stuff like that. 

It has gotten cold-ish, and I was blaming that.  But he thinks it's simply arthritis.  

Whatever, I need to remember to stretch in the morning.  And to apply my heating pad to my back, when in my comfy chair.  And even take a Tylenol in the afternoon, sometimes.  And wait it out, till it passes.   

And it certainly helped, that I had wonderful books and DVD, to read/watch!!!   "Mariana" by Susanna Kearsley!  Oh how I love, love, love this book!!!!!!!!  I love all of S.K.'s books but this one, oh my!!!!!  The kind you don't want to end.  And which end, in a marvelously surprising way.  Purrrrrrrrrrrrrfection!  :-)

And when I reluctantly finished "Mariana"...   I picked up "Chronicles of Faerie:  The Hunter's Moon" by O.R. Melling.   Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...   I'm back into reading of the Fey!!!!!  Must get out my Iron Nail necklace!  And wear it!  ,-)

And did you ever watch an old British series, called "Pie In The Sky"?  There were only 3 episodes on this disc, but I think we'll get more of them.  From the looks of the main character, can you tell he loves food, and is a part-time Chef?  As well as his police work?  :-))))))

(Still blooming...)

We used to love to go over to a certain restaurant in town, have a leisurely drink at the bar, and then go in to eat their delicious Italian food.   But!  Since my becoming unable to eat Gluten, we can't do that anymore.  -moan-  -sigh-  -sob-  -whimper-  

But I got the idea of going and getting a container of their marvelous sauce and meatballs, cooking our own pasta here, and having it all, that way.  It wasn't quite the same of course.  -sigh-   But it was still nice.  "Stay-cations" are all the rage.  So this was a "Stay-Date-Night-Out."  ,-))))))

(Very old row of trees, beside the house...)

"Sing of old Eire and the ancient ways."  ~~Yeats  

Yes, this was in yesterday's crossword puzzle.  I don't do them, but 'Uncle A.' does.  I saw the quote and I loved it though.  :-))))  It so-goes-with my reading of the present!!! :-)  The Irish Fey...

And......   Lots of our teams won, at Football, over the weekend...  He watches closely, more than I do.  I mostly read.  But am happy when 'our' teams win. 

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WARNING:

If you can not get rid of your own stuff...

If you can not get rid of stuff, your kids left at home...

If you are still keeping boxes of family stuff, left over since the Civil War...

Then, Reading and Looking At pics in this post, may make you uncomfortable. 

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Are any Dear Readers old enough to remember the old song....  "Earth Angel"?   ,-))))   Well, these are my "De-Cluttering Angels"!!!  Come to give me one of my fondest and oldest wishes.  To get rid of all the no-longer-useful accumulation of over 50 years of marriage.  Plus items left here, by our children.  And stuff we got for our Grands.  

Plus a huge, huge, huge amount of old, useless, moldy stuff, from down cellar.  That which "Uncle A." (aka "Pop") could never, never bring up those cellar stairs, by himself.    Down cellar was his first work shop, years before he make a work shop in the garage.  Anyone familiar with a work shop, can imagine the Old Stuff Left Down There.  -sigh-

You can't appreciate the stuff disposed of, without a "Before" picture, so I took one.  Scott is beginning to learn that I am a *Mad Snapper*.  Poor guy!  But he was very good about it.  :-)   They both were!

Some accumulation gone...

More...

Last, goes "Over The Top"...

And by now, I could hardly stop coughing, from all the raised dust and mold!!!  Don't anyone tell me that I didn't *suffer* some too!!!!!!!  -grin-

Now comes the really HARD part....   ,-))))   Writing the check.    (Scott is probably happy, to be getting away from this "Mad Pic Snapping" Nana!)

Yes, you can see the tired tole on "Uncle A.'s" face.  It was difficult for him.  I was hopping up and down with glee, and he was not quite so enthralled.  

But after, he too was so, so, so glad we did it!  So relieved to get all this stuff out of our house and from beside our house.  A job, which we have been trying and trying and trying to do, little by little, ourselves, for years.  WE  COULD  NOT  DO  IT  PIECEMEAL.  Perhaps younger people can.  But we COULD NOT!  And we are both, both, both so relieved, that it is done!!!!

Now we clean upstairs, like we could not do, when rooms/closets were "Junk Rooms".  Now we can place our OWN Keeper-Items, in those closets.  Make clean rooms, out of empty kids' bedrooms.  His Office up there, will be neat and free of piled debris.    We can again USE our bedroom's Walk In Closet!  He can move his Office to a front bedroom, which he can use in summertime too!

W H E E W ...

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♥ This & that... And a HOORAY!!!

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Mmmmmmmmmmmm...  

The HOORAY, 

in my Subject Line, 

is for the FRINGE news.

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To repeat, the HOORAY, in my Subject Line, is for the FRINGE news!!!!!!!!!!!

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A bit ago, I was complaining about how my weight stays the same, no matter what I do.  When I watch what I eat...  Or when I don't bother to do so...   It says the same.

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Wellllll, I began this past week at 164.  And end it today (Sat.) at 160.   I watched what I ate, this week and it made a difference.  

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Now..........  Is this lost fat?  No!  Every time we begin a different way of eating, no matter what 'Name' we give to our 'New' eating plan, we lose some weight.  Every time!

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Logic tells us that it's not true loss of pounds.  But the LOWER numbers on the scale, perk us up!  Make us feel empowered!  Make us feel that we-can-do-this!  So in this way, they are good.

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But, if we return to our former way of living/eating...  Eat mindlessly again...  Those pounds come back on, and maybe more.  Over and over.  Over and over.  If anyone has repeatedly tried to lose weight, they know this, in their heart-of-hearts.

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Ever try fooling the body?  With 6 days of being careful, and one day of eating more?  I used to do this, years ago, and it worked then.  'Course, I'm a lot older now, so who knows now?  It's worth a try anyway.  :-)

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I've read 2 of the "Ruth Galloway Mysteries" now...

and...

Have 2 more, to go.  Needless to say, I'm enjoying them!

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I also read "Trick or Treat Murder" by Leslie Meier, one of the "Lucy Stone Mysteries."  "Lucy" lives in an fictional old Maine village, and the series is said to be kind of a 'younger Jessica Fletcher' type of cozy.  Setting...  An old village (Tinker's Cove) in Maine...  But instead of 'older Jessica,' there is young married/mother Lucy...

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There are lots and lots of books in this series, and I wanted to like it.  And thus have many, yet to read.  Well, I did and I didn't like this one.  But I'll try another, before leaving the Series.

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Lucy and her husband already have 4 children, in this book, so I'm not trying to read-them-in-order.  Which I usually try to do.  But I think it will be fine, with this kind of a cozy.

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Have returned to an old *friend,* with "Busy Body" by M. C. Beaton.  "Agatha Raisin"!!!  A long running series, which I read some of, in the past.  'Agatha' is a hoot, and she lives in one of those perfect little English villages, which lots of us, would love to visit (or move to).  :-)

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This book is typically "Our Agatha"!  For those who know her, that's enough!  :-)

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Dear Reader, what are you reading, please?

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Know those "Theme Days," in blogging?  'Blue Monday'  'Red Thursday'  'Wordless Wednesday'   'Funny Friday'  Etc.,  etc., etc.  Welllllll, I've found one, to top them all!  -giggles-  Give A Frock Friday... 

  

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Hooray!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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"The most courageous act is still to think for yourself.  Aloud."

~Coco Chanel

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♡Proceedure is AOK!!!

Happy Dance...

My Colonoscopy procedure is over and all is OK...!!!!!!!!

That's the good news.

Bad news is that my own computer seems to have really quit.  So I have to use "Uncle A's" laptop, until son's Geek gets here, to make a *house call,* Thursday or Friday.

Which is not really bad news...!!!

Nothing is bad news, when my doc said my procedure is fine...!!! 

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But I have no idea how to use the iPhoto program on this laptop.  So I can't *grab* pics from the Net and post them.  Nor can I post my own pics.  -pout-  You know how we all want, want, want to find pictures in the posts we read.  Poooooooooooh...  Oh bother...

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But I'm too happy, from the good news, to complain much.  :-)))))))))))

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