Movie recommendation

 

We watched "News of the World" with Tom Hanks last night. I rented it from RedBox. (They keep sending me coupons!  I can't resist a 59 cent movie rental.)  I had seen a trailer for this and read about it, so it was one that was on my list.  A western!

I've told Mike (and others) that I have not really ever seen a Tom Hanks movie that I didn't like. This one did not disappoint.  We even watched ALL the special features included with the disk--deleted scenes, notes from the director, the making of... etc. 

If YOU watch it, let me know what you think!

4 seasons, plus 43 years

These lovely little prints have been in my possession for about 44 years and counting. I bought them with 50 cents and four proof-of-purchase seals from Coronet Paper towels.  I really liked them!  They are just cheap prints of the four seasons in water color. I guess I have been loving water colors for a very long time!  I didn't have a place to put them at the time, so they stayed in their folder and moved a few times.  When we lived in Hawaii, I had a house, but didn't have frames.  Diana Hansen-Young, local Hawaiian Artist, brought her mat-cutting machine to Relief Society one night so we could learn to mat artwork.  I matted all four of these in complementary colors for each season.  That created a unique situation in that NOW they were all a very CUSTOM size that I could no way afford to buy frames for!

 Yikes. So they hung out behind my bedroom door in Cedar City, on the floor, for many more years.  Just sitting there, collecting dust. In their lovely, color-coordinated mat boards. .  . House remodeling time!  I tossed the mats and figured I would just put them in cheap poster frames in my basement guestroom. They looked okay. At least they were visible now. However, then we had to move out of our bedroom and it got remodeled and I decided that I really wanted those four seasons prints in our new bedroom.  I found some sheet music from my Grandma Sorensen to put in the poster frames in my Sorensen Family Guest Room on the wall in the basement. And *I* decided that I would spend the money to have my lovely, fifty-cent, four seasons water color prints custom framed with matching mat board.  And they are done!  I paid a lot of money in the end, but worth every penny. I still love them. After all these years.  

💕

 

April is National Poetry Month

 English is the shiniest hammer

I own, but it’s also
the only thing in my toolbox.

By Rudy Ranncisco

Denver in December. Oh, wait. It's March

 We made a four day trip over to Denver to see Katie and Casey's family.

It was fun. The drive over was only scarey once when we very nearly rear-ended a long string of stopped cars on the mountain passes. Whew! Mike used his mad driving skills and was able to move to the other lane--where, thankfully there were no cars for a space or two, allowing us to stop without hitting anyone. 

We just watched basketball(Mike), played MANY games of Candyland(me). Read stories. Watched movies. Ate good food. Made a trip to Costco. Visited. Showed Hayden and Corbin Katie's old school papers and reports which I brought over to her. She got HER old ceramics, too! I forgot to take a photo of them. I gave her the kindergarten handprint, too, made from the round disk of clay. Katie's was even glazed. She made a cute turtle out of clay, too, in grade two.

We also worked on getting Katie's front-load washer cleaned out. It needed de-gunking badly. I dont know if we succeeded, but we did succeed in flooding the laundry room a bit in the process.

Sunday, we took a drive through the Rocky Mountain Arsenal Wildlife Reserve.  That was fun and we saw lots of wildlife...deer, birds, bison. We had to take two cars and communicate via walkie talkies. Or two-way radios. Our kids are so funny. They narrate, converse, joke, let five-year old kids drive. (Steer). We had Hailey with us un our car. She's funny. She just chatted and sang all the way home. The first half of the drive she was really quiet. Katie said she didnt know quite what to do without her "wingman" twin. Ha ha.

We really had to watch the weather closely. We knew it would probably be snowy on Sunday and Monday. They did get snow. Nice, wet, deep snow. About 6-8 inches. And it was do perfect for snowballs, but no one played.

Mike and I just left on Monday around 10 am. The roads were wet, but clear of snow. The passes were fairly easy since they were not snow packed OR icy. We felt very blessed. Katie packed us up with lots of treats and snacks for the ride. We made good time and spent the remaining time in our evening listening to the end of our murder mystery audio book, stretched out on our bed.

I guess we got in around 7:30 p.m. One caffeinated drink each both ways.