And you know what I am talking about without even adding ‘Mountain’ to the above title. Sean brought home 3 DVDs and that was one of them. Not that I really wanted to see it because I figured they would show certain kinds of scenes. The outdoor scenery itself was majestic. Heath Ledger’s drawl drove me crazy through the entire movie as I couldn’t understand him. And I saw Ann Hathaway and Michelle Williams in scenes that left nothing to the imagination. Annie girl was no princess!
I’ve never seen guys act ‘like that’, meaning madly in love. I guess it showed how difficult it was in the early 60s and beyond for men to have these feelings. They had wives and children, but they still needed to see each other over the years.
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Sean has his last final tomorrow and he is miserable with a cold, his first in a few years. He just took some Nyquil so he can sleep. He has a good appetite, which is good, but he is blowing his nose like crazy. We went out to the jiffy oil change place and then to Wally World this afternoon. I checked out their plants and got some 25¢ Johnny jump-ups, some eggplants, basil, a purple pepper and a pretty hanging basket of petunias. Most of what they had wasn’t that unusual. I need my Avondale Gardens fix for the year.
I’ll probably go to my mom’s and meet Sean there. The floor people are suppose to come tomorrow and add moulding to behind the frig and stove-it looks unfinished. The Home Depot guy installed a corner door today too. I got some knobs by Fed Ex, but the wrong color! Man, what’s wrong with those people? It will surely get finished too long.

Honey Glaze Iris

Raspberry blush iris

Johnny jumps-ups being planted by gnomes!

Roger Ebert has released a list of 102 movies you must see in order to be considered “movie literate”. I’ve posted the list below with the ones I’ve seen in bold, though I may have seen the older ones and have forgotten.
2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968) Stanley Kubrick
“The 400 Blows” (1959) Francois Truffaut
“8 1/2″ (1963) Federico Fellini”
Aguirre, the Wrath of God” (1972) Werner Herzog
“Alien” (1979) Ridley Scott
“All About Eve” (1950) Joseph L. Mankiewic
“Annie Hall” (1977) Woody Allen
“Apocalypse Now” (1979) Francis Ford Coppola
“Bambi” (1942) Disney
“The Battleship Potemkin” (1925) Sergei Eisenstein
“The Best Years of Our Lives” (1946) William Wyler?
“The Big Red One” (1980) Samuel Fuller
“The Bicycle Thief” (1949) Vittorio De Sica
“The Big Sleep” (1946) Howard Hawks
“Blade Runner” (1982) Ridley Scott
“Blowup” (1966) Michelangelo Antonioni
“Blue Velvet” (1986) David Lynch?
Bonnie and Clyde” (1967) Arthur Penn
“Breathless” (1959) Jean-Luc Godard
“Bringing Up Baby” (1938) Howard Hawks
“Carrie” (1975) Brian DePalma
“Casablanca” (1942) Michael Curtiz
“Un Chien Andalou” (1928) Luis Bunuel & Salvador Dali
“Children of Paradise” / “Les Enfants du Paradis” (1945) Marcel Carne
“Chinatown” (1974) Roman Polanski
“Citizen Kane” (1941) Orson Welles
“A Clockwork Orange” (1971) Stanley Kubrick?
“The Crying Game” (1992) Neil Jordan
“The Day the Earth Stood Still” (1951) Robert Wise?
“Days of Heaven” (1978) Terence Malick
“Dirty Harry” (1971) Don Siegel
“The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie” (1972) Luis Bunuel
“Do the Right Thing” (1989) Spike Lee
“La Dolce Vita” (1960) Federico Fellini
“Double Indemnity” (1944) Billy Wilder
“Dr. Strangelove” (1964) Stanley Kubrick?
“Duck Soup” (1933) Leo McCarey
“E.T. — The Extra-Terrestrial” (1982) Steven Spielberg
“Easy Rider” (1969) Dennis Hopper
“The Empire Strikes Back” (1980) Irvin Kershner
“The Exorcist” (1973) William Friedkin
“Fargo” (1995) Joel & Ethan Coen
“Fight Club” (1999) David Fincher
“Frankenstein” (1931) James Whale
“The General” (1927) Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman?
“The Godfather,” “The Godfather, Part II” (1972, 1974) Francis Ford Coppola
“Gone With the Wind” (1939) Victor Fleming
“GoodFellas” (1990) Martin Scorsese
“The Graduate” (1967) Mike Nichols
“Halloween” (1978) John Carpenter
“A Hard Day’s Night” (1964) Richard Lester
“Intolerance” (1916) D.W. Griffith?
“It’s a Gift” (1934) Norman Z. McLeod
“It’s a Wonderful Life” (1946) Frank Capra
“Jaws” (1975) Steven Spielberg
“The Lady Eve” (1941) Preston Sturges
“Lawrence of Arabia” (1962) David Lean
“M” (1931) Fritz Lang
“Mad Max 2” / “The Road Warrior” (1981) George Miller
“The Maltese Falcon” (1941) John Huston
“The Manchurian Candidate” (1962) John Frankenheimer
“Metropolis” (1926) Fritz Lang
“Modern Times” (1936) Charles Chaplin
“Monty Python and the Holy Grail” (1975) Terry Jones & Terry Gilliam
“Nashville” (1975) Robert Altman
“The Night of the Hunter” (1955) Charles Laughton
“Night of the Living Dead” (1968) George Romero
“North by Northwest” (1959) Alfred Hitchcock
“Nosferatu” (1922) F.W. Murnau
“On the Waterfront” (1954) Elia Kazan
“Once Upon a Time in the West” (1968) Sergio Leone
“Out of the Past” (1947) Jacques Tournier
“Persona” (1966) Ingmar Bergman
“Pink Flamingos” (1972) John Waters
“Psycho” (1960) Alfred Hitchcock
“Pulp Fiction” (1994) Quentin Tarantino
“Rashomon” (1950) Akira Kurosawa
“Rear Window” (1954) Alfred Hitchcock
“Rebel Without a Cause” (1955) Nicholas Ray?
“Red River” (1948) Howard Hawk
“Repulsion” (1965) Roman Polanski
“The Rules of the Game” (1939) Jean Renoir
“Scarface” (1932) Howard Hawks”?
The Scarlet Empress” (1934) Josef von Sternberg
“Schindler’s List” (1993) Steven Spielberg
“The Searchers” (1956) John Ford
“The Seven Samurai” (1954) Akira Kurosawa
“Singin’ in the Rain” (1952) Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
“Some Like It Hot” (1959) Billy Wilder
“A Star Is Born” (1954) George Cukor
“A Streetcar Named Desire” (1951) Elia Kazan
“Sunset Boulevard” (1950) Billy Wilder
“Taxi Driver” (1976) Martin Scorsese
“The Third Man” (1949) Carol Reed
“Tokyo Story” (1953) Yasujiro Ozu
“Touch of Evil” (1958) Orson Welles
“The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” (1948) John Huston
“Trouble in Paradise” (1932) Ernst Lubitsch
“Vertigo” (1958) Alfred Hitchcock
“West Side Story” (1961) Jerome Robbins/Robert Wise
“The Wild Bunch” (1969) Sam Peckinpah?
“The Wizard of Oz” (1939) Victor Fleming

“The measurers will be there between 10am and 2pm.” She might as well said between 10am and 2am as I am still waiting. I called and they were held up at their first stop and we are the third stop. I decided to go out and plant some of my fairy/gnome garden marigolds and snapdragons and rearrange the little figures, mushrooms and furniture. I kept adding things and it needs to be expanded. ; ) It looks so sweet.
I am thrilled because I have two irises blooming and a few to follow. The two blooming are called Opalette (like a champagne blush) and Kiwi Slices (greenish with a purple middle). They are peaking my interest in being a iris/lily farmer big time. We have so much yard we don’t use. Plus I bought some of the beauties off of eBay and the unusual ones get top dollar. I have a few books on this and it would be something we could do in ‘our retirement’. : )
The pollen is awful and mixed in with all the dust from it being so dry. I have so much to do yet-inside and out. I need to find a happy balance. I haven’t even gotten out my warm weather clothes. Speaking of which, Sean said the electrician who went in the attic where the clothes are store just threw things here and there. I told them that Brian stayed home that day to move items out of their way. They also threw things off my eBay table in the basement onto the floor! That was so uncalled for.
I need to start listing on eBay soon. I miss selling and seeing my post office pals.
~Update-the templaters showed up 4 hours late at 6 pm. They called right before dinner and we wolfed it down. It took an hour-they use cardboard and stinky adhesive spray. The sink will fit, but the carpenter is going to have to make some cuts and a support piece for that cabinet. Brian saw one of the guys tossing stuff in the dumpster and told him about it. He didn’t even ask if he could use it! BTW, we had all the kitchen stuff in the dumpster on Monday and will be getting rid of doors, etc that are in the basement and yard.

This was on the way home and that is the ‘Gap, PA town clock tower’

This is the corner where the Dairy Queen use to be as seen in the movie ‘Witness’. Someday I’ll get some waffles and ice cream in here.

This is one of the outlet centers-note the horse and buggy in the photo. This particular shopping area has a lot of empty stores now.

I persevered and found these earlier. I hope I ordered enough! Isn’t it a pretty blend and it’s about the same price as what the other tiles I was about to buy would cost-but a better price than the other glass tiles I liked.

Here’s the link for those interested in seeing some gorgeous tiles. The owner wrote back right away when I questioned whether or not I ordered enough sheets. The above is called ‘Heaven’s Gate’ and this is the suggested arrangement of tiles, but you can actually arrange them anyway you want from the selected colors. Pretty neat!( The place in California were not helpful at all). I’m kinda glad the local order fell through as I wasn’t really getting what I wanted. Now I am! I ordered a lighter grout to go more with the cabinets.

Sean and I are off to the outlets in Lancaster to return jeans he purchased a few months ago. I do have the receipt! We just couldn’t get up there any sooner than this. So far Sean has two ‘A’s. One more final to go on Friday. He’s applied at a few stores online, one being the grocery store a stone’s throw away-so he wouldn’t have to worry about spending tons of bucks on gas.

One of my good friends in the world of blogging and cross stitching said that she and her husband suffered a painful loss today but didn’t say what. I am sick about this as I don’t know what she means and I don’t want to think the worse. I’m here for you B if you read this.

I just talked to the tile lady and the pretty insert pieces I liked have been disconnected. : (
I am probably going to order the mini-glass tiles I originally liked and can’t find around here-from a place in California. Shipping is free for orders over $50. The place in Delaware was charging me for freight. Brian thinks the minis will be easier to install anyway.
I’m also waiting on the dumpster. I may have to call to see where they are. And the Home Depot guy is coming to check out the cabinet doors I received FedEx to make sure they are the correct ones. I really need to get to Wally World for vacuum bags and shelf paper. How exciting is that?
My mom needs to go to the cemetery of all places to tell them who she wants to ‘be in charge’ of ‘her arrangements’ there. They called her requesting that she update her records.
Sean headed out for a few finals and he is just getting a cold. He was healthy the entire semester, but I do recall him having a cold last year for his midterms. Go figure!

I got the idea to just leave my old pantry closet (looks like a pie safe) in the living room, but push it toward the hallway more. I have all my cross stitch hardbacks stacked up in there anyway and why not utilize this and not stick it down in the basement?! I was thinking of making panels for the front to ‘dress it up’ and of course they will be cross stitched! Am I not clever? I need to find some designs that will fit on the front. Bet I’ll be checking out all my Prairie Schoolers first.


BTW, Von gave me the idea to look for a Free cycle group and I found one through Yahoo! I hope to get rid of, I mean ‘give away’ another older riding mower and maybe a china cabinet through this service. Thanks Von!