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[easyas123]

QOTD for Monday 2/8 Do you re-read any books (or re-watch any movies/TV shows) by season each year?

I do revisit favorite books now & again. I've reread the biography of Queen Noor a few times, The Stand, the Henrietta Lacks book, several childhood favorites such as Wrinkle in Time and Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy & several Piers Anthony books. I've re read a few Nora Roberts trilogies as well & Clive Cussler books - they are fun summer reads. I re read the Crazy Rich Asians books this past summer, too.

So, yeah - I'm a re reader on occasion!

I've very guilty of putting on The Office reruns if there is nothing else on, or LOTR/Hobbit , Indiana Jones or HP movies as background while I'm doing a big house clean...those movies for me are like putting on background music. I think the only "seasonal" type movies that we watch would probably be the usual Christmas ones-the classics I suppose you might (or might not!) call them.

 

[easyas123]

LOL, I admit when I read "Oakland" I immediately though as in CA.

Oakland, MD & Oakland, CA...more opposite I can't think of!
Sorry, I'm not laughing at you Flyingdumbo - just imagining the folks in the two Oaklands switching places. Talk about Culture Shock!

 

[tazdev3225]

QOTD I reread books and rewatch movies and TV shows. I have read the Outlander books at least 3 times each and watched the shows 10 times of not more. I once watched the original Bye Bye Birdie 17 times in one week.

GREAT NEWS!!! LJ IS COMING HOME!!! My grandson just called and they were on their way to get him from the hospital. Thank you all so much for the prayers. I'm giving them a couple days to settle in but I will be seeing him sometime this week. He has to get to know his ME-MO. My grandson Mikey called me that when he was little and I miss it so I am hoping the great grands will call me Me-Mo. It rhymes with Nemo.

 

[easyas123]

Bye Bye Birdie

I was in BBB in school!!!

GREAT NEWS!!! LJ IS COMING HOME!!!

Wonderful- congratulations and good luck to the new parents!

 

[theluckyrabbit]

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GREAT NEWS!!! LJ IS COMING HOME!!!...

Terrific news!

 

[flyingdumbo127]

Such Blessed news, TazDev, big hugs!

Lol, Easyas, that's quite all right. I have never stopped in Oakland only driven through or flown over it! I have been to SF a few times.

 

[PollyannaMom]

Are only the Maryland members of this thread present and accounted for this morning? We are the last post on the bottom of page 1!

Small group today. Is everyone recovering from Super Bowl? Not to discount those who are here.

I was out shoveling...again (and then I left early for "school" so their mom could also leave early...)

QOTD for Monday 2/8 Do you re-read any books (or re-watch any movies/TV shows) by season each year?

Lots!! - though nothing on a real schedule except Christmas movies: Miracle on 34th Street, It's a Wonderful Life, and usually a couple of favorite Hallmark ones.

I've read the Harry Potter books so many times I can recite the first page! When I was younger I remember re-reading Tales of a 4th Grade Nothing, Foster Mary, and the Mythology 101 series a few times. Jane Eyre was another biggie - I think I read that for a high school class and two different college classes, then a couple more times over the years.

 

[theluckyrabbit]

... Jane Eyre was another biggie - I think I read that for a high school class and two different college classes, then a couple more times over the years.

Ooohhh, Jane Eyre is an old, much loved friend here! She gets re-read at least once a year (Also Shirley and Villette). Emily's Wuthering Heights, too. If you are interested in Bronte history, Juliet Barker's The Brontes is a wonderful biography. I think she was the curator of the Haworth parsonage and had access to so many resources.

 

[theluckyrabbit]

@apirateslifeforme: How are you doing? I am so sorry about your FIL's passing. Prayers for strength and comfort for you and your family during this difficult time. Agree that Josh's processing and grieving will take time and may happen in ways that are quite different from your own. And that's okay -- you'll both go through this in your own way, in your own time. And in the end, the love is what you'll both remember. Big hug for you. Take good care of yourself!

 

[flyingdumbo127]

Christmas movies really are the best, PollyannaMom I agree with your other thoughts as well. I was thinking a little while ago if I did have a favorite book that takes place in each season (that I don't necessarily turn to re-read each season). I do remember Tales and all the Peter and Fudge books. I also enjoyed the Henry Huggins and Ramona books as a kid. Those would also be fun to re-read post plague.

Hug, to you Luckyrabbit! Wise and true words indeed! Love indeed always carries on.

Have a good night, my friends.

 

[sweetpeama]

Pretty to look at but dang it is freezing here.

Looking out the front deck just minutes before DH cleared most of it. Sister's house is on the left, parents on the right.

Looking toward my garden area and our private road

To the NW of the house. The tracks in the pasture are from nephew running a snowmobile. In the background are the Rimrocks or the Rims as we call them and are sandstone cliffs cut by the Yellowstone River many years ago. The river is now located to the South of us by several miles.

 

[lynxstch]

Oakland, MD & Oakland, CA...more opposite I can't think of!
Sorry, I'm not laughing at you Flyingdumbo - just imagining the folks in the two Oaklands switching places. Talk about Culture Shock!

You hit that one right on the head..Culture shock it would be..there's even culture shock going from my little city to Oakand MD..lol..I can't picture anyone from Oakland CA ever trying to 'fit in' around here, lol!

 

[lynxstch]

Good morning all! @sweetpeama--you are right..it's pretty to look at,,but I wouldn't want to have to be shoveling it. I can barely do the amounts we have gotten here. The forecast for us online says 'snow showers' tomorrow nite, accumunlating 3-5". Since when does a snow shower accumulate that much? lol. They say more possible next Tuesday and again next Thursday. Guess they think we are trying to make up for what we haven't gotten the last 2 years--they are wrong! I cannot wait for Spring and no sign of white stuff on the ground!

No big plans for the day except to wash the kitchen floor. I don't care if it's going to snow again, I want it clean!

@tazdev3225--great news about LG going home! I did a whoop whoop out loud when I read that! I hope you get to see him soon!

Have a great morning everyone!

 

[tazdev3225]

Morning all. I haven't seen LJ yet and am actually showing some restraint and waiting a couple of days. My grandsons mother posted some pics of his homecoming on Facebook and I borrowed this one. They are living with her while they still look for an apartment so she gets to have fun with him.



My daughter ordered this outfit for him to come home in. He is James IV and the 7th James in our family so they decided to call him LJ for Little James. I like it. Has the sounds of a ball player. I see so much of my son and my grandson in his sweet little face.

Hope everyone has a good day.

 

[Breezy_Carol]

Good morning.

Woo Hoo for LJ being home!!

Snow predicted for later tomorrow but it sure looks and feels like it now.

DD survived second shot yesterday and said she is just tired today. DH goes for second this morning.

Has anyone watched the movie Hillbilly Elegy on Netflix? It is based on the memoir of a Yale Law student drawn back to his Appalachian hometown, reflecting on his family's history and his own future. DD, as a child welfare social worker, recommended it and said it is very realistic. I enjoyed to movie but it was hard to watch at times.

QOTD for Monday 2/8 Do you re-read any books (or re-watch any movies/TV shows) by season each year?

Yes. Two books we own and I've read more than once are The Shack and A Walk in the Woods. But chick lit novels, if I start one and realize I've already read it, I stop. For Movies, there are some that I stop and watch every time I see them, even if I only watch parts: Top Gun, Sound of Music, The King and I, African Queen, Drum Line, Forest Gump, Madame X (it is not on often), Carousel, The Greatest Showman, West Side Story, basically any musical. What is funny is that I cry every time the king dies in The King and I and Tony dies in West Side Story.

 

[flyingdumbo127]

Good Morning, Friends

It's chilly here this early Tuesday but a Blessed day of health and life from the Lord I am so grateful always.

Your pictures are beautiful, Sweetpeama! Yikes to how freezing it must be! Stay warm.

Precious LJ picture to come on here, too, TazDev, thank you for sharing with us.

Hugs to all!

 

[Bianca and Bernard]

Morning all. Had to run to the post office, Fresh Market, and then a pick up order at Walmart. Bought some goodies to send to DD#2 (she can't find sour Skittles anywhere on the base they are at, lol), so need to go back to the post office tomorrow to ship her package off. Picked up lunch at FM--they have these 'meals', usually about $20 or $25, and it feeds 4. This week is Noodle bowls, so I picked up 2 (so we can have leftovers tonight)--one shrimp and one beef.

It was super foggy this am, and now it's a thunderstorm, so that's fun.

QOTD: reread/rewatching books/shows per season....only a few. Mostly things like The Ten Commandments at Easter and Christmas shows at Christmas. But I'll reread a book or rewatch a show/movie anytime. I love reading the Dresden Files books by Jim Butcher; Cody McFadyn's FBI books; most of the Nora Roberts trilogies; and Johanna Lindsey and Beatrice Small are old favorites too. Also, quite a few 'oddball' fantasy novels series, like the Spider Robinson 'Callahan'; Robert Asprin's MYTH; Christopher Rowley's Basil Broketail; Joel Rosenberg's Ehvenor D&D; and Steven Brust's Jhereg.

 

[Breezy_Carol]

@sweetpeama, I forgot to say home pretty your pictures are. Thanks for posting.

 

[flyingdumbo127]

Slipping thread!

That's so nice of you to send your DD a care package, B&B

Still cool and gray around here.

Anyone have a Tuesday QOTD?

 

[PollyannaMom]

Anyone have a Tuesday QOTD?

This one is just from one of those ice-breaker lists ~

Tuesday QOTD: Describe yourself in three words.