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February Wrap-up

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This one's an oldie but goodie from the archives!  

1) Candle scents this month: 

Lemon Meringue Pie. Delicious! I just got those two out of the cupboard.  

2) What I read this month: 

I'm still reading the book in the side bar. Great Book! I've also read Ya-yas in Bloom, Deborah Newton's Finishing School: a master class for knitters, and now am reading Born on a Blue Day.  I must have read others but just don't remember the titles.  Gah!

3) Top three songs I was drawn to: 

Landslide, always, or Old Time Music. When I hear it, I stop and listen to the whole song. Then I heard some songs in a sound track: One was "I'm Gonna Be", and there's another one that I've yet to track down.

4) Movies I saw: 

I've seen so many movies this month!  That's what I do, watch movies and Documentaries when I'm not reading or working on the computer or moving mountains in the Sewing room and detritus in what is jokingly called "The Studio". But, let's go back to the subject of movies:  "Red" and "Red 2" were great.  I saw, "Rain", "Her Name is Sabine", and about a dozen documentaries, like, "Sola", "The Waiting Room", "Titanoboa", and "TWA: Flight 800" .  Others were about conspiracies reaching far back into the 60's.   Needless to say, having lived through those times as an adult, those particular ones were hard for me to watch.  Collectively, they lay out a path that might as well be lit by Klieg lights.  

5) Favorite tv moments of the month: 

I just don't watch TV very much.  For one thing, the ads make mecrazy.  I can't do it.  I do love and support-with real money- KPBS.  I don't see how we could be in a worse mess than we are already if we had had Public Television instead of the Circus we have now.

6) Something yummy I made: 

I'm not the chef around here anymore.  But I've eaten yummy stir fry, delicious meals of buffalo steaks, and salmon patties- with all the normal side dishes.  I am thinking of making ginger cookies, still.  It depends on what that Enemy, the Scale, has to say in a few weeks.

7) Restaurants where I ate: 

We didn't go out this month.  Usually we only go out when it's warmer or a birthday or anniversary rolls up.  February is just a nice short little month when we get ready for the tax people.  

8) Five things I am loving this month: 

If you mean about this month then I understand.  I love the rain, and the amazing cloud displays and sunsets it has given, that's three.  I love my family, my guildies, my blogging buddies, and my little fur baby who is now very well indeed.  I love Wolfie's Vet, our Dentist, and my Doctors, all of whom I've seen this month.  That's more than five but what the Hay!  Love is too thin on the ground most times so come pile on!  

9) A goal I had for this month: 

My goals were small.  They almost always are now.  I was able to straighten out my knitting corner in the bedroom, setting things up on a perfectly lovely old oak side chair inherited from my mother.  It's just a Sears and Roebuck copy of furniture made for 1920 farmhouse people but I love it.  No one can sit in it anyway, so it makes a lovely stand for my knitting project bags, and a place to tuck away my "Jimmy Chooz".

The Aztec Hardware Sandal.  Guiseppe Zanoti's Shoppe

And I've read read a lot of books.  

10) This month I looked forward to: 

March?  hehe.  I looked forward to St. Valentine's Day in February because of Hearts.  I love Hearts.  My sister loves Hearts, and so we always decorate in February.  Love is year-round and not only romantic but Hearts, well, so many go on Sale or come out the woodwork in Magazines in February.  So, it's a favorite time I look forward to.  I guess we have our grandmother's little "Hillbilly" Heart.

11) Something I want to remember about this month: 

The roses have set buds already.  We didn't get a killing frost this year, so they made it.  Yay!

12) A photo I took this month: 

Coral Tree, at the park, on February 5th

Onward to March, and time for the Thaw!  I'll be getting Easter decorations made. Something fun and good. We'll have to eat a lot of scrambled eggs for the shells!  I really love Easter, it's my favorite holiday.  Also, the Big Torts come out of hibernation in March.  Yay!  They can eat the new baby mallows, Dandelions, and other young wild plants that they like.  It helps them recoop some of their weight.  We also soak them a couple of time,  for a while, in warm water and as the weather permits.

Sunday cinema:

I love LOVE LOVE Spy Spoofs, and we watched two this week:  Red, and Red 2.  I think there may be more in the pipeline but you never know.  You will see some very top actors in these, if you haven't seen them which seems unlikely since they are three to four years old.  I didn't stop to check on that and will if I don't forget.

The snappy dialog and fast paced, hilarious script is fun from one end of the films to the other.  Think "Burn after Reading" and to some extent, "The Men Who Stared at Goats" and "I Spy".   In Red 2, the "Do svidaniya" that Helen Mirren's character tosses over her shoulder as she is flying from the room, is almost a whisper but so incredibibly funny!  If you want a decent getaway from real life for a few hours, try these two, admittedly bloody - lots of shooting  and knifing but what the heck.  They are great spoofs!  Keep in mind that I like James Bond and that's not funny at all.  The all star cast of these works together to make it campy and fun.