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Jul. 5th, 2006 07:58 pmOMG there is SO much work to do (at work) and I'm so unfocused. Argh. Non-sequitor hooray: I finally cleaned the house over the long weekend, yay.
I like staying home over major holidays when most/many people travel, like the 4th, Christmas, and Mem. and Labor Day. It's very quiet and restful in my town, with hardly any traffic. It's lovely. I kept remembering a July 4th weekend ( Read more... )
I took a recently widowered neighbor (80 yrs. old) and my mother (91 yrs. old) to the county fair for a half day. We all had fun. Jules had never been on a Ferris Wheel before! Up we went for a wonderful view of my beautiful county and the blue-roofed FLW building next to the fairgrounds. Mom and I were into the horses, tho' we missed the actual junior competition, but stayed in the barnyard for sheep shearing and a "horse demo," consisting of an hour of dressage, kids in duets and sextents on their ponies, and buggy-pulling. I don't think I've ever seen a Hansom horse before: what a beauty. The two of us could've stayed for the next hour's draft horse demo (it's awesome what trucks were like before the internal combustion engine), but Jules was one big yawn by then, so we split. (It was a little shocking to realize some people are bored by horses.)
Then I pretty much stayed home. I watched National Velvet on DVD, first time, and wept my way through it. (She loves her horse so much! ::weep:: The mother is SO cool! ::weep::) The mother, Anne Revere, was fabulous. She was the epitome of a supportive, spunky-and-accomplished-herself mother. I'd say that in moviedom, she and Attitus Finch are the perfect movie parents. She won an Academy Award for it, rightly so. Huh, she was a descendant of Paul Revere, and her career was ruined by the McCarthy blacklist. What a shame about the latter. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0720843/bio
It seemed to me that the riding was atrocius, though. I was cringing through the "Velvet trains" sequences. ( Read more... )
I was a kid at all the charity steepchases in my hometown growing up and the horses all went so fast... but I remember them as basically following a hunter example. Anyone know more?
I had good intentions of hiking one day, but turned out to be the day I never left the house. Another day, I stayed in my nightgown all day and even wore it to walk to the park nearby to meet a friend. (It looks like a beach coverup.) She came over later to watch Tivo'd stuff & have dinner w/ me. I watched lots of Tivo's stuff: West Wing. Heavens, that's a good show. I'd forgotten! (CJ and Danny! the goldfish! ::weep:: Will and Kate? really? sweet! Uh-oh, John Spenser... ::weep::) I Tivo'd most of last season's eps and I may see if the DVDs are out yet to pick up the 6 or so that I missed. I'm roughly half way through the season.
I like staying home over major holidays when most/many people travel, like the 4th, Christmas, and Mem. and Labor Day. It's very quiet and restful in my town, with hardly any traffic. It's lovely. I kept remembering a July 4th weekend ( Read more... )
I took a recently widowered neighbor (80 yrs. old) and my mother (91 yrs. old) to the county fair for a half day. We all had fun. Jules had never been on a Ferris Wheel before! Up we went for a wonderful view of my beautiful county and the blue-roofed FLW building next to the fairgrounds. Mom and I were into the horses, tho' we missed the actual junior competition, but stayed in the barnyard for sheep shearing and a "horse demo," consisting of an hour of dressage, kids in duets and sextents on their ponies, and buggy-pulling. I don't think I've ever seen a Hansom horse before: what a beauty. The two of us could've stayed for the next hour's draft horse demo (it's awesome what trucks were like before the internal combustion engine), but Jules was one big yawn by then, so we split. (It was a little shocking to realize some people are bored by horses.)
Then I pretty much stayed home. I watched National Velvet on DVD, first time, and wept my way through it. (She loves her horse so much! ::weep:: The mother is SO cool! ::weep::) The mother, Anne Revere, was fabulous. She was the epitome of a supportive, spunky-and-accomplished-herself mother. I'd say that in moviedom, she and Attitus Finch are the perfect movie parents. She won an Academy Award for it, rightly so. Huh, she was a descendant of Paul Revere, and her career was ruined by the McCarthy blacklist. What a shame about the latter. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0720843/bio
It seemed to me that the riding was atrocius, though. I was cringing through the "Velvet trains" sequences. ( Read more... )
I was a kid at all the charity steepchases in my hometown growing up and the horses all went so fast... but I remember them as basically following a hunter example. Anyone know more?
I had good intentions of hiking one day, but turned out to be the day I never left the house. Another day, I stayed in my nightgown all day and even wore it to walk to the park nearby to meet a friend. (It looks like a beach coverup.) She came over later to watch Tivo'd stuff & have dinner w/ me. I watched lots of Tivo's stuff: West Wing. Heavens, that's a good show. I'd forgotten! (CJ and Danny! the goldfish! ::weep:: Will and Kate? really? sweet! Uh-oh, John Spenser... ::weep::) I Tivo'd most of last season's eps and I may see if the DVDs are out yet to pick up the 6 or so that I missed. I'm roughly half way through the season.