Angela Law

animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 
gardening & landscaping

wrapping up

The nice weather is almost coming to an end, but I have hopes for a few more nice days so I can do more outside work before the snow arrives.

Today, I planted garlic. Brian turned over the garden for me last weekend, so the soil was all nice and loose for today’s planting. I planted close to 200 cloves, so I should have plenty of garlic next year.

I have a lone Brussels sprouts plant in the middle of the garden–it has to go. I was hoping to get to it today, but we were busy doing stuff around the house all day.

Prior to this weekend, I’ve been on cleanup duty outside. Due to the early hour it now gets dark, I only get to work outside on the weekends, so it’s been slow-going.

tv

fall tv

This year is a failure compared to last year. Last year got me, The Middle, Modern Family (my current favorite show) and Cougar Town. This year, nothing.

On Tuesdays, I watch Parenthood. I thought it was much better last season (for example, it actually had a plot), but I still keep watching for some reason (damn you, Peter Krause).

Wednesday has taken over Thursday for the best night of television. If only ABC could find another good show to go along with the rest of their Wednesday night lineup, it would be perfect. This year’s new show is Better With You and if it makes the cut, I will be surprised. I’ve been watching it if only because it’s on between The Middle and Modern Family. I’ll probably continue to watch it, but it’s really not that good.

NBC has scrambled the Thursday night schedule and I’m not a fan of the new order. They now have 30 Rock on at 8:30. That’s just not an 8:30 kind of show. It’s still as funny as always, though. I’m still watching and like The Office. I wonder how they are going to pull that show off once Steve Carell leaves? I don’t know how they’re going to do it. I’ve also been watching the new show, Outsourced. While it has an occasional laugh, it’s another show that I can’t see lasting–how long is that subject matter going to be interesting? I mean, just how many jokes can you make about Indian food? Really.

We added some new shows to our Blockbuster Queue. So far we’ve watched seasons 1 and 2 of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. I’m not a huge fan of the show yet, but occasionally I find it hilarious, so I’m going to give the 3rd season a shot. I’ve also heard great things about Breaking Bad, but haven’t rented it yet. I’ll be watching that soon for sure.

I added True Blood to my HBO/Showtime shows-to-watch list. I was completely mesmerized by the first season of True Blood. The second season was good, but not as good as the first. And, I’ve been keeping up with Californication, Weeds, and Dexter (though I haven’t rented the latest season yet). With all of these shows to watch, it’s a wonder I can get anything done.

friends, movies

airplane ii: the sequel

We went out for supper last night with our friends Bob and Carol. As a bonus, their son Jeff was in so he joined us. We went to Clark Powell’s Restaurant in Ebensburg. It was pretty nice. I wasn’t sure if we were going to make it because I came down with a cold Friday night, but I didn’t feel too bad yesterday, so we went. It was nice catching up. We really need to do this more often (it’s been a year since we all went out).

After we got home, we did a Family Movie Night and watched Airplane 2. It was much the same as the first one. Suffice it to say, it wasn’t as funny as I remembered, but Jake seemed to like it.

Due to my cold, I fell asleep about half way through the movie. I just could not stay awake (it wasn’t like it was late or anything–10 or 10:30). After the movie was over, I got off the couch and went to bed and didn’t get up till 8:30 this morning, so I got a good 10 hours of sleep. I needed that!

Anyway, I feel slightly better today. The sore throat is gone, but I keep sneezing. As far as colds go, I guess it could be worse. I’m just glad I wasn’t sick for the concert last week.

rants

a-s-s-h-o-l-e

What’s that spell?

After dinner, our doorbell rang. It was the neighbor catty-corner to our house in the back. He stopped to inform us that he doesn’t want Jacob walking through his yard anymore. You see, Jake’s best neighborhood friends live in the house directly behind ours, but our yards are divided by a row of hedges, so the kids cut through the neighbor’s yard rather than walking the whole way around the block in order to get to each other’s houses. And when I say they “cut through his yard”, they are walking on the very outer corner of the property.

Unfortunately, our neighbors in the back have been talking about cutting down the hedges, which are on their property, so I’m afraid this is just going to add more fuel to the fire. I am not in favor of cutting down the hedges. While I like these particular neighbors, I don’t have a need to see what they are doing in their back yard every time I’m outside.

I’m still on board with moving in case you were wondering. We wouldn’t have these problems on “the farm”.

weekend updates

a great weekend

The great weather aside, this was a great weekend. Not only did we get a lot done, but we also had a lot of fun. Throughout the weekend, I was able to go outside and do some gardening stuff. Most of Saturday was spent at the office working on the bathroom (we’re almost done–just the trim is left). Saturday night we had a Movie and a Margarita Night. On Sunday, Brian and I went for a motorcycle ride and then we topped off the weekend with the Alice Cooper/Rob Zombie show at the War Memorial. It doesn’t get any better than that.