Category Archives: Brian

Some more shots

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Sean and I are headed up to Lancaster. Target owes him money for being overcharged on buying a t-shirt that he didn’t. We need to birthday shop for Brian a bit too. We will probably get him a new cellphone. He wants a gigantic can of Virginia peanuts from Reading Glass Factory.

Here are some more flower show photos. One is a gown with orchids on a mannequin (Brian took this) and of a design in a garden bed filled in by glass in the harp garden (you can see it a bit there)-I guess it’s smooth on the edges. ; )

Gown from the Flower show

Design in glass

Philly Flower Show-127 photos later

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We had a nice time at the flower show today. We got to eat at the Reading Terminal Market and utilize the new camera to it’s fullest capacity. I won’t show you all 120+ photos, but here are a few of my favorites:

Di and Bri at the entrance to Legend of Ireland Flower Show theme
Brian and me at the entrance to ‘The Legends of Ireland’ Flower show. Mom and Sean were with us and he took this photo. (Um, Di pull your top down in the front there!)
Silver and Flowers-gorgeous combo!
A gorgeous arrangement and silver-what a combo!

Reading Terminal Market
Where we ate lunch as viewed from the Convention Center.

Photo hunt-architecture

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Church in rural PA

This was taken about 1991-92 when we went up to near Penn State for the wedding of Brian’s cousin. Brian’s mom was still with us (she passed on in ’96) and this was a little church behind the cemetery where most of Brian’s maternal relatives rest (including his mom now). Brian believes his mom went to church here, way out in the sticks.  I think because of taking this photo, I got an interest in the design and architecture of other churches, thus taking photos of them in my travels. This is such a simple, but beautiful place and I wonder if it’s still standing.

Yucky and yummy

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ToidySo what’s the worst thing that could happen to you that is house related? Not as bad as a fire, something you can clean up. What happened-Sean used too much toilet paper and I went in to use the facility. The water looked low, but I was in a hurry. I went to flush and you guessed it-geyser time! I was in my bare feet at least, but in my good dress slacks. I started yelling-get the plunger. Brian happened to have stepped outside. So Sean went running for the plunger just when the toidy let out a big gurgle and down ‘it’ went! We had water going through the floor into the basement. I had to first clean up the water with paper towels and then went over everything with antibacterial wipes-my poor back! We don’t have a huge bathroom, thank goodness. I have the little rugs to wash-tomorrow.

Bri went to the grocery store with me. He decided to go to the ‘cheaper’ store, which was really crowded. It was late, like 3:30 by that time. I decided to do a pasta salad with cut up turkey ham in it. Bri saw stewed tomatoes and wanted some. When I got home I cooked up the penne and the guys decided they wanted the stewed tomatoes and cut up ham on top of that (Sean doesn’t like mayo much). They loved it! I had what I originally envisioned-penne, ham, with mayo, dill, cheddar cheese and a bit of onion-plus a croissant. Not bad.

Tonight I enjoyed reading the People magazine about the Oscars with Patrick Dempsey and his new twin boys on the cover. So cute.

Tomorrow the snowbaby display in the big living room window is finally coming down and getting replaced with a spring display! I like the idea of switching it out every few months.

Bri and me

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Sean took this with his cellphone camera. We went up to the restaurant in the next town and had dinner this past Saturday night to make up for not going out on Valentine’s Day. I have kinda puffy eyes. My sweater has some bugle beads on the bodice part and it’s 3/4 length-not bad for $7 from Walmart! ; ) Oh-here’s the photo from last year! As you’ll see the new curling iron I got this past Christmas did wonders for my hair!Valentine’s Dinner a little late

Look ma, it’s snowing again!

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Thought I’d pop on here to write a post, but the regular log on page for wordpress was MIA. I had to say I wanted to post a comment to a WP post that did appear and that’s how I logged on in a round-about way!

And it is snowing again with probably an episode of ice, like 11 days ago. Luckily, we finally got our Valentine’s din din last night. The restaurant we like is never crowded on Saturday nights and they have good food. I had my usual Kennett mushroom burger. We made a mistake of getting nachos which killed our appetites for our burgers and shrimp dish(<—Sean). The nachos had a tart bbq sauce mixed in with the meat sauce, so good. Sean took a photo of Bri and me, a tradition it seems to becoming each year. He needs to transfer it to the computer.

Brian and I went to the grocery store afterwards, another place that wasn’t crowded. We heard that this store is closing and moving. I can tell their inventory is lower. I kept checking for MSG and even the Gorton’s fishsticks had it. I am going to turn over a new leaf by cooking more from scratch. I do most of the time anyway. Rachael Ray had a yummy looking cod cooked in a pouch with olives, onions, fennel and garlic) on 30 minute meals today. It is Lent after all.

Sean and I rented three movies. One is playing now that I rented for Brian-The US vs. John Lennon. Sean rented ‘The Departed’. I started to watch it with him Friday night and told him I wasn’t interested in seeing the rest of it last night. Too much cursing, beating, killing, etc. Topnotch actors like DiCaprio, Nicholson, Sheen, Damon and Wahlberg and it’s up for Best Picture.

I rented ‘Marie Antoinette’. I enjoyed the scenery and the costumes. The plot was pretty lame. And why didn’t Kirsten Dunst (MA) and Jason Schwartzman (King Louis) at least have some kind of an accent for being Austrian and French? They sounded like kids from southern California. And the choice of music in most of the movie was odd. I guess Sofia Coppola was doing her own ‘thang’.

Pretty costumes

Have a nice Sunday. It’s pot roast night, so I’ll pop that in the oven soon.

Icy Valentines

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Snow!My two guys had the worst time chipping away all the ice and stuff from the cars and trying to clear the drive today. Brian’s whole back was soaked with sweat when he came in over an hour later. The wind is suppose to whip up even more, continuing havoc, especially with the temperature.

We didn’t go out to dinner (of course) so I made the fellas a spaghetti and meatball dinner and more bread. The bread was herb and cheese and the top fell in when it was baking. I don’t know why as the bread yesterday did pretty well. We ate it anyway.

I got Bri the Beatles ‘Love’ cd. Isn’t that the show in Vegas? He now has most of the Beatles ‘newer’ releases. He got me a little sapphire and diamond heart-I have one already and I think he gave it to me last year. (Not too many stores in this immediate area for last minute shoppers). I’ll take it back and chose something else-when I can get out. He also got me a flashcard (hmmm) for the new camera and cute red sockies. I’m hard to buy for, what can I say?

Sean gave us a lovely Victorian decorated card and the verse was so touching. Ahhh…sweet guy. He bought us dinner this past Saturday. 

I hope everyone was able to spend quality time with their loved ones today.

Enjoy the video player ‘pod’ I added in my sidebar. It’s spankin’ new by wordpress. Took a while to figure it out, but it’s cool!

Art card for Sunday

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Engaged!

I was sorting papers and found a very yellowed copy of Bri and my engagement announcement from December, ’82. Bri’s aunt had sent it to us over last summer, but we had a few of them already. This was kicking around-so what did I think to do-make an art card! I was going through my Princess Di look featuring short hair with brush over bangs and the Victorian style tops. Town talk is the name of the paper.

Farmers Market

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Brian and I went to Booth’s Corners Farmers Market yesterday to give me a change of scenery. There must have been a lot of people with the same thing in mind, as the place was crowded. We went to the big store at the end and I got a few cute things-ceramic birds in a nest, crackle finish Easter eggs to hang on a little tree, some candy, that sort of thing. Sean wanted some sesame sticks from one of the Amish booths. I also got him some macadamia nuts as an added treat. We hit Aunt Annie’s homemade pretzels and headed home for church. We did look around some antique stalls on the way out and I got some cute bisque pixies. Four men hemmed and hauled about what to charge me for them (at another booth). I said ‘yes’ to what they said, but I should have haggled a bit. Brian haggled for some VHS tapes that he didn’t even buy. Our final stop was at the Goodwill to drop things off. We did go in and I got some tiny birds in a nest salt and pepper shaker set (that go with the above mentioned decoration so well); a Portal rectanglar shaped poster of moon and stars and some aqua glass conductors from telephone poles. And a book of poetry by Edgar A. Guest from 1916.

After church we went to a Chinese restaurant that we hadn’t been to for years. We probably won’t be going back. The food was bland and they gave Sean the wrong thing (which he wouldn’t send back and hardly ate). Also, their cc machine wasn’t working and we had to scrape together the money for dinner. Either Sean or I felt good today-me around 4am, but him after he ate his breakfast-we think from the Chinese food. He is plum tuckered out over math and chemistry. He is having trouble with trig and may have to get some help.
The roast beef is nice and brown as I type this. I need to toss on some potatoes for a nice dinner.

Trivia time-
Booth’s Corner also attracted some of the country’s most famous entertainers. Ed McMahon, Johnny Carson’s famous sidekick, was once a colorful pitchman hawking gadgets in the Market midway. While Bill Haley, of Comets fame, was a popular guitar-playing entertainer. Incidentally, Bri and I lived in the same apartment complex when we were first married that Ed McMahon and Dick Clark had lived in when they worked in Philly.

The Raggedys and little pals

I left my little collection of Raggedy Ann and Andys up-I may eventually take down the tree. The little fairies are a market find.